Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?
Neuralink has implanted a chip in its first human brain. But it’s pushing a needlessly risky approach, former employees say.
I hope he experiments on him self and it goes horribly wrong
Ha, You don't think that's already happened?
Nah, I think his brain damage is from all the K he’s zooted out on
Elon isn't even brave enough to go up in one of his own rockets.
At the same time, I feel like we shouldn't let that happen because imagine if he actually succeeds? And then we just have immortal crackhead Lex Luthor with a hallucinating ChatGPT whispering further delusions directly into his brain. That can't be good for any of us.
Brain chips from the people who “move fast and break things”. This can only end well.
If definitely seems dystopian, but hopefully this ends up helping some people who are quadriplegic.
There’s a shit ton of people I’d trust more with this work than Elon
Absolutely. However through his maniacal adventures he may find where this technology should NOT go to progress.
Hopefully the people elon's persuading to do this work are better aligned.
It will for sure.
In the short term.
The problem is the implants can and very likely will cause very serious complications in the long term.
My SO is a neurologist who visibly cringes wherever I mention brain implants as we discuss emerging tech (my wheelhouse).
If anyone is dumb enough to put anything from that dude into their head, that brain was already damaged!
Your brain would have to be damaged already to agree to this.
Maybe we should find prison volunteers. Get us some Lawnmower Man shit
He's obviously desperately trying to revive the image of being a genius again. But everybody knows what kind of charlatan he is.
It's too bad, if he stayed off Twitter (not just not buying it but not twitt either) people who still believe he's a genius.
I think he still has millions of worshippers out there.
Oh just want we need, a hive mind of morons. Together they may be able to reach average
He should grow balls and be the first person to have neurolink implanted in his brain.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
Why the fuck would anyone want this?
Advertisers would absolutely love to augment your reality with ads or even just the ability to accurately confirm you've actually watched a traditional ad along with how you "felt" about it.
At that point people would absolutely sign up for free implants so they can access ad supported services that may otherwise become unaffordable within a society further strip mined of wealth by the then trillionaire class.
Advertisers would absolutely love to augment your reality with ads or even just the ability to accurately confirm you've actually watched a traditional ad along with how you "felt" about it.
Your reality is already augmented with ads most places you look, and advertisers already do have significant ability to accurately identify how a sample feels about the ads.
Most don't bother because they don't actually care, and because it's easier and cheaper to just run an ad mix self-optimizing around sales results or conversions than to try and over-engineer the advertising impact.
Anyone betting on neural implants to make money because of 'advertising' is going to lose a lot of money themselves.
Why would anyone want the cybertruck? Yet at present, it'll take them over a year to clear their backlog.
Some people are just dumb - that applies doubly for those that love Musk because he speaks the Nazi conspiracism Truth™.
The general technology seems very useful for people with severe disabilities.
Even just being able to "speak" or move in a wheelchair is something that millions of people in the world can't do.
Of course the money will be in mass implanting this on the general public, for that I'm not sure they will manage to convince me
Sacrifice yourselfers for the eternal future Emperor God Elontron Musk.
He will insert his X in all of our hearts.
Not as many as those still using Twitter.
None. And any that were damaged by it were pedo guys and it never happened.
None, the people who volunteer, or worse pay for this, already have brain damage!
Do we count those as negative numbers when the implants help them recover?
Easy...all tests must be done to him before any other humans.
C-mon! If the linux team, microsoft, and apple eat their own dog food, why cant he?
Well it’ll only be fully consenting brains.
I can think of one already.
Finally the plot of the movie "Upgrade" can become a reality
U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D
particular individual
All of them, if Musk is heading it.
I’m not entirely convinced that The Boer’s own brain isn’t already damaged
How many people need ai implants before we get a full on bulterian jihad?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Of all Elon Musk’s exploits — the Tesla cars, the SpaceX rockets, the Twitter takeover, the plans to colonize Mars — his secretive brain chip company Neuralink may be the most dangerous.
Former Neuralink employees as well as experts in the field have alleged that the company pushed for an unnecessarily invasive, potentially dangerous approach to the implants that can damage the brain (and apparently has done so in animal test subjects) to advance Musk’s goal of merging with AI.
The letter warned that “AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity” and went on to ask: “Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us?
If the intravascular approach can restore key functioning to paralyzed patients, and also avoids some of the safety risks that come with crossing the blood-brain barrier, such as inflammation and scar tissue buildup in the brain, why opt for something more invasive than necessary?
Which perhaps helps make sense of the company’s dual mission: to “create a generalized brain interface to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs today and unlock human potential tomorrow.”
Watanabe believes Neuralink prioritized maximizing bandwidth because that serves Musk’s goal of creating a generalized BCI that lets us merge with AI and develop all sorts of new capacities.
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