I’ve seen the pigs video, but what are they going to do once the FDA approval goes trough ?
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Neuralink is supposed to be implanted *into* the skull, above the motor cortex to read its activity. *In theory*, that would allow it to know what limbs a person is trying to move, as different sections of the motor cortex’ surface have different functions.
In practice, such an invasive procedure has an enormous risk of damage and complications, both immediate and long term, as we have seem in the *thousands* of deaths and incapacitations during neuralink animal trials.
Not only that, but brains also vary between person to person and the areas the neuralink implant is supposed to read are very small, so even if the initial implantation is successful the chip is not guaranteed to work.
Brains are living things with a lot of variation, subtleties and plasticity that current electronics can’t reasonably adapt to no matter how poweful they get. It is like fitting a square peg into a round hole.
One day we might figure out safe, reliable brain-machine interfaces, but that day is not today, and the way neuralink rushed into live tests and is trying to rush into human trials is counter-productive.
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