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Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board

Elon Musk’s brain-implant startup, Neuralink, said it has received approval from an independent review board to begin recruiting patients for its first human trial. The company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device in a six-year study.

Neuralink is one of several companies developing a brain-computer interface (BCI) that can collect and analyze brain signals. But its billionaire executive’s bombastic promotion of the company, including promises to develop an all-encompassing brain computer to help humans keep up with artificial intelligence, has attracted skepticism and raised ethical concerns among neuroscientists and other experts.

Last year, the Food and Drug Administration denied the company’s request to fast-track human trials, but in May approved Neuralink for an investigational device exemption (IDE) that allows a device to be used for clinical studies. The agency has not disclosed how its initial concerns were resolved.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus...

You think Musk's product is going to work like the Matrix and someone has full body control in VR?

I have zero idea why you want on that giant rant about it.

And you have no idea what the learning curve is even just for a physical videogame controller. People don't think "now hit the X button to crouch" they just think crouch and their thumb hits X. It doesn't take long.

Neurolink only does mouse/keyboard.

It takes an afternoon of training for this kind of interface, as pointed out in this article from literally decades ago. And over a decade before Musk every "thought of" Neurolink. None of what he's doing is new, except 20 years ago it worked better

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/03/020314080832.htm

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

You think Musk's product is going to work like the Matrix and someone has full body control in VR?

I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I was stating that a matrix like scenario is a impossibility dreamt up by sci-fi.

My critique was that tech bros like to pretend that you can separate the mind from the body. When in reality they are entirely codependent, and when you try to bypass that codependency with something like neuro link people end up not being able to utilize it.