This guy is one bad day away from becoming Lex Luthor.

This is ground breaking. Imagine being completely paralysed physically, you’re suddenly mobile. Sooner or later you’ll be able to drive a car with your mind.. but let’s start by controlling a smart phone 😅

The sheer philosophical and existential implication of this on all of us as a sentient species. It's a human brain after all that made the chip that goes into it.

Don't get me wrong, this is a wonderful advancement that could help a lot of people, but at the same time, it feels like the backstory to a dystopian novel.

After watching Sci-Fi and wondering what the future looks like, it is so impressive to finally see the arrival of real life practical telepathy ! Well Done Neuralink.

I'm a paraplegic and there's so many ways that this could be helpful 👍 Thanks for sharing

In the movie Planet of the Apes based on Pierre Boulle's novel La Planète des singes, I don't think it was ever fully explained how the apes became so smart. Although this was explained in Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001 A Space Odyssey. Apparently, one group of apes was exposed to advanced technology that made them smarter than the ape group that was not exposed to the technology. Scary!

I understand how good this can be for those who could really need it,. In the wrong hands, it can be devastating.

Here’s a little conspiracy theory. So with this thing you can control your body or so that’s what I understand. But if it’s upgradeable that means that they can access it remotely and thus control you. This is dangerous territory.

Thirty years ago people laughed at the internet and now we can't live without it. Neuralink has great possibilities both good and unfortunately in the wrong hands bad. Only time will tell if this is truly a life changing technology.

This is the scariest tech, period.

This could lead to zombie soldiers, inescapable spam in your mind, and people spying on your thoughts. It will also lead to a transcendence of speech, showing people your memory and dreams, and communication that is more effective than you could ever believe, leading to the hivemind. Thereby, eternal life.

The head aches for first time users of this sorcery will be unmatched

I am constantly caught in a loop of laughing at this man and then being absolutely mind blown by what he has achieved... This is one of those times when I'm mind blown I've been amazed at this concept since I first heard about it years ago and now that they've actually started making prototypes I'm amazed and exited to see the final result

But it also contributed to a lot of death and suffering to many animals, just because elon musk wanted to hurry up

Stephen hawking could have used this to communicate long answers in real time during his later years!

The fact that people think this technology is to help humanity is crazy

As a monoplegic with no use of my left leg below my knee, and almost dying and having the doctors wanting to cut off my leg, and almost following through with it even with me begging them not too, and then they are able to save my leg in the final hours. It was all in the hope of something like this somehow being possible so thanks for the motivation! It might be easier to use a prosthetic leg instead, but on the 1 in a billion chance it can change someday it’s all worth it so thanks for giving people hope I can only imagine how people with more paralysis are feeling!

I cant wait to have this cuz my legs dont work ☹️

“He can’t spell but that’s him moving the cursor!” 😂

Apple stores do not surgically remove portions of your skull once a year for their new model

Nope. That’s the most unnatural thing ive ever seen. Have fun with whatever side affects that thing causes

"Looks like the matrix" I see...and I'll pass on your freaky invention Elon.

Something is published, and people figure out that a lot more advanced version is already in secret use. Each military needed to participate in this technology over decade ago to serve own people.

My father became paralyzed in 2012 when I was in 8th grade. I hope that one day he’ll be able to walk again again. This makes me very hopeful. If not, i hope see people benefit from this ground breaking technology in my lifetime.

Hope that tech will help people

I love the Neuralink journey! But what will I do when, let's say, I have a mind that is easily distracted? :D Will I end up with my whole house exploding? :D

Would help to get an explanation on what exactly is causing the cursor to move and the requirements, kinda just seems like eye tracking software otherwise

15 of 23 monkeys implanted with this device died. All monkeys suffered debilitating and extreme health complications. Such as mental exhaustion and fatigue, extreme nausea, self-mutilation, and brain death.

He was playing pong a few days ago and now he's selecting precice points on a keyboard. This is absolutely wild. Can't wait for thunderfoot to have a temper tantrum over this

What if the thing negatively reacts to increased body temperature (e.g. pyrexia for whatever reason), and fries the brain?

I'm curious - how groundbreaking is this? We've seen demos for some time now (years?) where humans can control a cursor or make a selection on a screen using their "thoughts". But as far as I remember those devices did not interface directly with the brain. I remember one device that sits on the side of your neck and detects tiny movements in your jaw that correspond to signals your brain is sending when you want to speak. This allowed the user to think about speaking and the device to translate into words what they were thinking of saying. And I believe we've also seen devices that interface directly with muscles so a robot hand can move its fingers based on the user thinking about moving their fingers. This seems in line with those demos except in this case the device is interfacing directly with the brain rather than the arm, for example. No doubt this is an incredible achievement! I'm just curious whether Neuralink has had a complete breakthrough here. Or has something like this already been attempted or even done before by different researchers?

The concept is cool from a tech perspective, but I’m not sure how I feel about this…

Приятно видеть что хоть где-то в мире развивается наука

This is amazing, I would write some long comment as to why but words can't do justice to the importance of this. For now im in awe

So they can read the output of you brain? They can technically read your thoughts then. Sure you might say they cannot interpret this info in that way at the moment, but it still begs the question. What can they do when you literally have a computer in your head? Call me paranoid but I think it's scary how casual people are being about this.

I think this could change a lot. But if this is an IoT device, as in its connected to the internet, than that actually is pretty scary. As someone who does cyber security, its not as hard as you would think to hack in to something like that, even with encrypted data.

This is incredible, so many practical uses. Well done Elon, you might not be fully appreciated right now but people will be talking about your contribution to humanity in the future.

And to think that this was predicted hundreds years ago. This just gives me the chills cause it feels like somthing massive is about to come.

I'm so ready for this. I can't wait until it becomes available to the public. I am definitely going to get one but really the only reason I want to have one is to fully enhance my memories so that I can remember anything and everything that's happened in the past. I'll remember every single equation, every piece of information, everything.

This is going to become part of the mark of the beast.

stephen hawking probably says shut up and take my money! if he was alive

"Our first human" Sure bro we believe you

If an artificial pacemaker can be implanted in heart then why can’t a chip be implanted inside the brain. Elon musk is doing an extraordinary job.

Great, finally man digging his own grave. Cool.

Pure madness...

Finger on screen vs. Chip in brain. Your choice.

Now imagine getting your chip hacked and being Rick rolled 24/7

Imagine the monkey types “PLEASE HELP ME I AM TRAPPED AND THEY ARE EXPERIMENTING ON ME”

can wires replace brain neuron connections? Modify them? Or is it just an output device...Seems like a risky business if so.

To be certain they’ve already put this in humans, they just need FDA approval to tell us about it.

Imagine a computer virus transcending digital barrier and finding home in your brain. Humanity will sit alone somewhere and babble - “All the dreams like twinkle stars, Twinkle stars like floating gems….”

They should be sued for experimenting and killing animals for their tests.

Next black mirror episode lit af 🔥

... he's saying their careful but there's already allegations of violating animal testing ethics.

Amazing tech but I don't know if I'll ever be ok with hardware connected to my brain.

Bad idea. The amount of people I see who want to give the last frontier of privacy, our thoughts, to them sickens me. To anyone that ever thinks of interfacing their brain with this and the web, please don't. We are individuals simply by meaning alone. If you take that away and interface with everything from the beginning...how do you become an individual truly?

Just looks like eye tracking. This stuff has existed for decades.

Ok just here me out.. "Telepathic Robot Arms " attached to my back.

I am equally excited as I am horrified.

Man is literally making cyberpunk into a reality.

And who can laugh at conspiracy "theorists" after this? They worned about chips in human brains decades and even senturies ago. They are geniuses

The technology could be important for livestock. Example cattle and cattle dogs. Between having the cows on a prebiotic and having neuralink dtats you know when they are gassy (when to collect methane)... You could also get feedback on if weather is becoming too hot or cold, informing you to shelter or cool off the animals... maybe further down the line you could transmit field of vision from individual cows to a computer?

I'm sure brain interface will be a reality someday, but sticking wires into your head doesn't sound like the optimal solution ?? xD

Stephen Hawking: "hEY, cAn yoU BriNg mE aliVe? I wanT to tRy tHis tHIng."

Imagine accidentally thinking too hard and your smartphone just explodes

This is life changing but scary at the same time

I pity the fool who puts this chip in their brain. They will literally be able to switch you on and off at will… same thing with EVs. As Ab-Soul said, a CONTROL SYSTEM…

this is astonishing. for all the noise around Musk we've all seem to forgotten that he is responsible for pushing forward our world in a way that hasn't been done in a long time

When we die, we wake up and see Elon asking if we want to try the upgrade

THE SAME THING CAN BE ACCOMLISHED with the computer following your eye movement.

1,500 animals killed so far on this experiment. As a lover of science, this is the type of science that I particularly hate.

I can’t help but watch this and think , what if this was us humans at some point in time . Someone just popped some extra abilities into our brains and bam! Holding onto traditions 😂

He is def not typing with his mind lmaoooo. He wouldn’t be able to think enough to not use his arms lmaooo

Completely breakthrough. We've had device that measure brain wave activity externally but never internally as such. The precision in reading brain activity to move a mouse cursor is far greater than simply measuring when the brain is active or not. It requires completely novel ways of interpreting action potentials (brain signals) and decoding what information they are actually signifying. It is rudimentary in some ways. But the idea is that one day, once the technology to decode brain signals has been sufficiently developed, you will be able to seamlessly control a computer implanted in your brain, listen to music, send texts, recieve calls, browse the internet. All instantaneously through a single thought. We would become cybernetic beings at that point. Pretty scary stuff. Not as scary as artifical intelligence though. If general artifical intelligence was to one day be created it could be disastrous. A computer that can think and be conscious completely like a human while at the same time having the processing power of a million humans at once is suddenly the most dominant form of intelligence on the planet. If let loose on our infrastructure of factories, industries, electronics, there's nothing we can do to stop it from surpassing humans as the dominant species on this planet. Elon musk argues that the greatest goal of neuralink will be to safeguard agaisnt the extinction of humanity. If general artifical intelligence is one day created, hopefully by that point humans will be so intimately and biologically connected to and in control of all of our technology that anything born in it would require us to direct its actions. In essence we would become the brain of any artifical intelligence because they would rely on a technological infrastructure that is completely biologically controlled and dependent on the human brain. And thays when the fun begins. Once the human brain is cybernetic, It can be updated with new software, faster software, smarter software. It can be upgraded with faster hardware. All the while having the processing power of an artifical intelligence symbiote to run calculations and ideas in a fraction of a second. There would be a monstrous exponential growth of human intelligence that cannot be compared even to the first fire and cooked meat. But that's all a dream. For now. Enjoy watching the cursor move.

I hope the monkeys get their revenge for how you have taken advantage of them. In due time karma will prevail.

I've got a question, can these monkeys do it without the feeding tubes? i can fully imagine the monkey applying pressure to these tubes like a joystick and the neuralink actually detecting the signals being sent to the neck muscles more than any abstract thought of the cursor moving, it also makes more sense for an animal with the intelligence of a monkey to repeatedly try this mode of interface, I'm not sure if the monkey could ever separate the abstract thought of the cursor moving and some kind of physical action to accompany it

So you're basically a wifi device for everyone else. Wow I can't see that going wrong at all.

eyes tracker ??? been here for a while lmfao

super exciting and I love to see the advancement here. But, I'm also not quite sure whether this leads to Terminators or Planet of the Apes.

This is an absolute game changer for mankind

Can't wait to start usin' this for driving

I am curious a out how it will do with an emp shot at you.

From what I’ve seen, this is nothing new. Neuralink is just reading your brainwaves and then interpreting them into orders for something like moving a cursor. This technology already exists, albeit never in such a portable and convenient form. It kinda makes me wonder whether this *needs* to be a chip, but I guess it probably has other features that require the implantation. As for right now though, even if the chip malfunctions it won’t cause any severe damage to you as long as it doesn’t explode or something.

Will be interesting to see how many people take the mark of the beast!

I'm not drilling a hole in my skull to connect a piece of hardware to my brain.. 🤡

*Laughs* Oh wait, you're serious? Let me laugh even harder. *Proceeds to laugh harder.*

This puts humanity one step closer to being able to use the force.

Azazel must be proud of elon

This is why he's firing everyone at Twitter.. To replace them with monkeys... I knew it!

It would be interesting to see this used for lucid dreaming

What happens if an empg goes off? Your head explodes?

Ok, I'm freaked out now.

They say way to introduce implanting technology into humans, is not force them, but make it so convenient/necessary, that they beg you to put it in.

Absolutely incredible

Nice demonstration, but I’d rather see their practicing, working scientific staff do the presentations. Musk “sounds” mild mannered and knowledgeable, but has shown us he’s an aggressive sales rep and fortune builder. His solar roof tile demonstration was evidence of the steps he’ll take as a leader to put forward product features that don’t yet work as sold.

This is the beginning of a Black Mirror episode.

If Elon gave me lifetime supply of banana smoothie I'd test his brain chip for him, no problem

This is awesome.

As long it's a benevolent one. AI is not really AI, but there's someone behind it controlling the AI.