Here's hoping you don't have to wait long.

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In my mind--diving is well known for broken necks.

Congratulations 🎊 you'll be a robot soon

Best wishes Chris, hoping it opens up possibilities we haven't even dreamt of yet!

​@@Persianking1997Sci-Fi brain goes straight to Cybermen "You will be upgraded"

Fully functional artificial limbs under direct control from the brain, you just know a soldier somewhere is going to mod an arm to include a fold-out weapon and armour like the Winter Soldier. They'll need new classes to compete in at the Invictus Games, but it's gonna be fun to watch.

Elon Musk is the hero protagonist of a Heinlein novel.

Good one 😂😂

I'd go with Tensor!

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We all know Elon will eventually be Ironman. 😂

That is not new, but other chips have only a dozen connections.

Just the beginning. He'll be walking if not running eventually.

So long as it isnt forced upon the masses. Stuff like this has a habit of being cool until certain people get their hands on the tech.

@@iamaduckquack Very true. That happened with the Internet and then years later the same thing with cell phones.

@@TheBuckeyeJeff Society definitely went downhill with Internet/social media.

@@iamaduckquack yeah but if it has significant advantage if you have it people will inevitably put one in their brain

time will tell, the good side is people around the world are slowing learning the problem is are leaders and we are all just humans wanting a good life.@@iamaduckquack

But isn't this old technology? Controlling a mouse with your brain is possible for decades and without an implant. An EEG cap alone is enough.

@@zagreus5773 The difference between neuralink and prior BCIs (Brain Computer Interfaces) like the ones that use EEG Caps is the level of fidelity and consequently the responsiveness of the device. It takes a lot of effort, focus and practice to be able to consistently move a cursor on a screen using an EEG, with any break in focus leading to a somewhat "laggy" experience, due to the skull severely limiting the signal reception from the brain (talk-less of sending signals back into it). That's why many BCI endeavors in this field prefer looking for more innovative solutions to get higher bandwidth signals from deeper in the brain that are still less intrusive like using ultrasonic sound and or infrared light (to detect, measure and change blood supply activities in the brain), stentrodes (inserting stents into the blood vessels in the brain), fMRI machines (for dynamic and deep brain scanning and triggering of neuron activation), and a few others I might not be aware of yet. But the tried and true method of getting the exact, clear and precise signals to and from the brain is simply sticking electrodes directly into it, pass the skull and right next to the neurons. Example of this would be the Utah array (a BCI that was basically a large square chip with 100 spikes on it that gets stabbed directly on the brain that sent and received electric impulses from the brain) which was used primarily to treat mental diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. It and other intrusive BCIs like it have paved the way in the development of BCI technology, but have so far been limited by the many challenges involved with their intrusive nature. Neuralink is different in the sense that it's built upon all the lessons and solved many of those challenges such as making the BCI chip fully enclosed and battery powered (no longer having wires sticking out of your head to send and receive signals from the brain), basically reduced if not eliminated the severe inflammatory immune response that often led to scarring around the implantation points (which reduced the effectiveness and lifespan of the implant), increased the number of electrodes from 100 to 1024 (a 10x increase that improves fidelity and bandwidth), as well as, making the electrodes extremely thin and flexible to account for the natural movement of the brain as blood flows through it (this also reduced inflammation and scarring), and using a surgical robot for the implantation surgery instead of a neurosurgeon (the electrodes are too thin and have to be inserted without damaging blood vessels, so no doctor could perform the surgery). So yeah, it's a massive improvement from just using an EEG cap to move a mouse cursor, it has many more functions that have just begun testing in humans; this short clip is just the beginning. Eventually the neuralink implant will be able to restore sight, hearing and mobility to the blind, deaf and physically disabled, but just giving this guy the ability to competitively play his favorite video games for hours unassisted with relative ease is plenty already (he doesn't need somebody to put on and setup the EEG cap to do it, its already in his head).

@@zagreus5773 You CAN do this with EEG, or MEG, or with extreme difficulty possibly fNIRS, but the signal to noise ratio of brain activity outside the skull is horrendous and the use of such an interface for moving a cursor for instance is awful and takes extreme, focused concentration. Look at the ease and fidelity with which he is moving the cursor here and how readily he controls the location to do common tasks. An EEG alone is definitely not enough. Having direct access to the electrical impulses of individual cortical columns is everything, they're reading out the activity of thousands of individual neurons in real time and there is a huge amount of data to feed the cursor control algorithm with. This kind of cursor control has been done with conventional Utah and Michigan arrays before, but I assume they're starting simple here to recreate past achievements first to validate their more novel approach using "threads" and a completely wireless external data transmission. If nothing else, the mere achievement of wireless operation is a significant advance with this device; just looking at those old, absolutely abominable transcranial contraptions that left a patient with a ring of permanently unhealed scalp and that huge electronics box literally bolted to the outside of the skull is just beyond awful. It's scandalous that they're even still being used at all on experimental trials in the present era when we've had many high speed wireless data transmission protocols for so many years.

The amount of control goes far beyond this. Other implants can maneuver a robot arm. These are being tested for several years, but thy only have a dozen connections. This here goes far beyond.

@@MichaelWinter-ss6lx What precisely do you mean with "control goes far beyond it"? That is a pretty nebulous statement.

Lol, he could change his name to Locutus

Linking the top of a spinal cord to the area below the break is one of the ultimate goals of the Neuralink program.

This is a FDA-approved trial. All of the usual caveats and warnings are made clear - and I'm sure it's doubly so because this will be so high profile. Yes, some experimental meds have turned out to have bad effects over time, but avoiding this problem means avoiding progress. Indeed, "saying this is the greatest thing ever" can come back to bite you, but anytime there's a big promising breakthrough the media use phrases like that, they can't resist.

I would imagine eventually you could drive a robot body with it.

Eventualy. It's possible. He'll have to get multiple extra implants to make that happen though, which is a bit annoying. but totally possible and a main goal. The neuralink team have already demonstrated involuntary control of limbs using the neuralink

The diodes get sewn into specific regions for different tasks. So, as the tech evolves, absolutely! That is a lot of bandwidth to modulate each limb and he would need a lot of physical therapy. I think recent vicitms of these tragedies would be better subjects for testing, but that is just conjecture.