Neuralink's Rival Tests Brain Chip in Race to Bring Implants to Market

Neuralink's Rival Tests Brain Chip in Race to Bring Implants to Market | WSJ

Рет қаралды 172,872

Күн бұрын

Elon Musk’s Neuralink recently implanted a chip in a human for the first time. The emerging market of brain computer interfaces, or BCIs, is in the process of finding its footing. In a world where AI is on the rise, BCIs allow for telepathic control of computers and wireless operation of prosthetics. But how does this tech work?
WSJ goes inside a brain surgery to see how the implants work, and breaks down what it’s going to take to get these devices on the market.
Chapters:
0:00 Musk’s Neuralink
0:41 The market
3:03 Synchron
3:57 Precision
5:16 What’s next?
News Explainers
Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to help you make sense of the news.
#Neuralink #Tech #WSJ

Пікірлер: 325

@mal7916 Ай бұрын

2024: Pop up appears on your phone 3024: Car insurance ad streams directly to your neurons. No close button.

@LUL69214 Ай бұрын

try more like 2030

@VirusTree1000. Ай бұрын

Creative ideas, yet it's unrealistic. Ads are banned in this tech.

@isaiahg9148 Ай бұрын

Thankfully the implant is just output and nothing goes in

@Chad-Giga. Ай бұрын

The fact you think society will survive another 1000 years is funny to me.

@user-xn2gr8me2u Ай бұрын

Wait until they research about brain that control movement. Then people become robot. They've already done it to insects. Search : Singapore's remote controlled cyborg insects. What if this technology fall into the wrong hands??

@Sebastian_Kai Ай бұрын

This is the beginning of the cyberpunk era.

@josephjoe4180 Ай бұрын

I was just thinking about that....... Or was I?

@marquesdoparanaonacionalis6671 Ай бұрын

This is amazing

@erickgomez7775 Ай бұрын

Not the cybertruck, that one was a false lead

@aperture0 Ай бұрын

FINALLY

@Psalm-yg6yi Ай бұрын

Nah more like Revelation 13:15-18 (King James Holy Bible)

@Landcruiser29 Ай бұрын

Need this in my country

@dannnnn809 Ай бұрын

😅😅

@jalanmcrae Ай бұрын

😂😂

@Chad-Giga. Ай бұрын

N Korea?

@caven7056 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@itsjustswerve Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh nah

@CindyMurphyPDX Ай бұрын

This technology is very exciting. My late husband had MS. He had a device implanted into his brain at the Cleveland Clinic in the late 90s. I wish this technology had been available for him.

@MedicatedMemory Ай бұрын

That BlackR0ck name is everywhere

@OneHappyCrazyPerson Ай бұрын

It keeps my money growing

@pibotuangxxx5782 Ай бұрын

Vanguard

@AAAAAA-tj1nq Ай бұрын

i wouldnt want a foreign object inside my body if im healthy and normal

@middelz2 Ай бұрын

Sounds much like the “what do I need a computer for” they said 30 years ago :)

@kylewubz8713 Ай бұрын

@@middelz2Nah, this is psychotic

@user-zn9ke8um8s Ай бұрын

@@middelz2Come back to us when Elon shuts off your brain if you don't follow the rules 😂😂

@andrewpage8759 Ай бұрын

Did you watch the video? They're treating disabled people, not healthy people

@sps6 Ай бұрын

You are absolutely right this is how government will try to control people...

@TonyJ1776 Ай бұрын

This technology is both SCARY and EXCITING. The potential to help people with disabilities including hearing and blindness. Yet the introduction of AI is tremendously troubling. Check William Gibsons novels from the 80s in the cyberpunk genre. Prophetic.

@andrewcarter215 Ай бұрын

This is a great comment. Everything that is ever invented is pretty much summed up by being both exciting and scary. We absolutely need regulations and such to be put on this!

@aperture0 Ай бұрын

shut up. AI is not dangerous

@pavelkremer8903 28 күн бұрын

@@aperture0 baa-baa

@anirudhnarla4711 Ай бұрын

I mean i havent lost my hands but i would definitely want to remote control a computer or electronic device with my mind

@SamBlitz Ай бұрын

take the chip....take the chip......

@MrNote-lz7lh Ай бұрын

@@SamBlitz Will do. As soon as it comes with a calculator plugin and the ability to control both computers and robots.

@boobak Ай бұрын

yeah, you can do it with your control minded hands

@robertbenz496 Ай бұрын

Its hard to stomach but Im so close to being there.

@kiiturii Ай бұрын

and it's gonna get so many more uses within the years that it becomes actually available, though it's probably going to cost many tens of thousands of dollars to get it if you don't have a disability that requires it lol

@Code_in_simple_English Ай бұрын

It would have been interesting if the WSJ had also addressed what could go wrong during the procedure of inserting such a device in the brain.

@karthage3637 Ай бұрын

Well like any invasive surgery, the immune system can reject the implant, however brain is a special part of our body because of the hemato-encephalic barriere. But other than that it is just a reading device so it does not seems to have direct interaction with the brain, it looks like using an oscilloscope or stuff like that

@Shadow-bk1im Ай бұрын

Since it is at such an early step I don’t think anyone knows the true extent of the potential damage or how risky it is. I think it will take time to figure out the true risk.

@thesadboxman Ай бұрын

2 questions: 1. What is the difference in sensitivity between the different solutions? I'm guessing that the more invasive it is, the more sensitive it is. Is that actually the case? 2. If the guess is true, then wouldn't it mean that eventually we will need an invasive solution because detection of brain signals can only go so far when you are outside the brain matter?

@jmoney4695 Ай бұрын

The problem is not sensitivity, but resolution. Chips that are implanted above the dura (a protective layer on the brain) have difficulty with precise neuron spike detection, because all the layers of tissue in between the electrodes and the neurons disrupt the signals and make it blurrier. You are right that deeply invasive devices have the most potential. There is only so much a BCI can do with blurry, imprecise spike detection. There is a much higher capability ceiling with the higher bandwidth, invasive devices. In the future, if we wish to reach the limits of what BCIs can do, approaches like Neuralink have the most potential. Disclaimer: not an expert in any means, just someone who is interested in the tech

@thesadboxman Ай бұрын

@@jmoney4695 You had me stumped at the difference between sensitivity and resolution. It wasn't top of mind that there was a difference! Thank you for pointing that out! "Resolution is the smallest portion of a signal that can be observed. Sensitivity is the smallest change in a signal that can be detected." is a definition I found on the interwebs. By that definition, wouldn't a more invasive probe provide improvement to both?

@DdDd-pl3nt Ай бұрын

Also not many people mention that the lower the 'signal' quality the more compute is needed to correctly decode the data. Also another really important thing is the electrode placement density.

@thesadboxman Ай бұрын

@@DdDd-pl3nt If the raw signal is processed directly by the NN software end to end (ie. not denoised/etc first), wouldn't compute be largely the same? Can you expand on the electrode placement density?

@DdDd-pl3nt Ай бұрын

@@thesadboxman so the more electrodes you can put the more different regions of the brian you can effectively gather data from. The issue is the signal "clustering" Or whatever we call it where electrodes placed close to each other gather almost identical data. For the signal, as far as i know the Preprocessing of the brian data should always include denoising, normalizing etc (what you mentioned). What i mean is from low quality signal it's harder to extract the features you want, or harder to train a model you want to use to interpret the signals in the future. I'm also not a professional though, still learning.

@Slinky_Spine Ай бұрын

It's all fun and games until someone hacks the device.

@theplacebeyondthelies2429 Ай бұрын

sayyy... worldly governments!

@alexanderbuchler4048 Ай бұрын

cringe

@kairi4640 Ай бұрын

5:04 sounds dystopian as heck. 😂 6:04 nvm, found the more dystopian concept: always being happy. 😃

@twijayamail Ай бұрын

The beginning of companies to charge you subscription fee for everytime you move your body

@AndreaDoesYoga Ай бұрын

Very informative! 🧠 Competition spurs innovation.

@kylewubz8713 Ай бұрын

This isn’t innovation, it’s evil

@justlooking4202 Ай бұрын

That "Neuralink Rival" is actually a company part owned by Blackrock. No wonder the media is promoting that company over Neuralink

@longestvideoever Ай бұрын

Doesnt blackrock own everything including nueralink

@Michael-mh2tw Ай бұрын

Blackrock is an investment company.

@danielmartin7838 Ай бұрын

Oppression is reaching a level never before imagined. To include “thought crime”.

@justlooking4202 Ай бұрын

@@longestvideoeverBlackrock doesn't own Neuralink. Neuralink isn't a public company

@kab6754 Ай бұрын

This has a lot of potential with good intentions, but this needs some government oversight when it gets closer to public accessibility

@Michael-mh2tw Ай бұрын

Oh there'll be 'government oversight', all right.

@Sebster85 Ай бұрын

Yea because the government always has the best of intentions. 😂

@yuhhuhuh Ай бұрын

@@wbay3848source? i’m almost sure you’re making this up because there is only one info stream

@alexmangrum90 Ай бұрын

FDA approved 😅

@mofik26 Ай бұрын

@@Sebster85 I mean.. at least they don't chase profits

@Mirokuofnite Ай бұрын

You best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias. You're in one.

@WheresHumanityGone Ай бұрын

Hackers: this is where the fun begins

@user-gy1bu9gf8l Ай бұрын

Most hacking nowadays is social engineering. You watch too many movies.

@WheresHumanityGone Ай бұрын

@@user-gy1bu9gf8l Sorry it was just a simple joke of course you know more 😔

@kiiturii Ай бұрын

@@user-gy1bu9gf8lthat is only because social engineering is the fastest and easiest method in most cases, but where social engineering isn't an option (say car hacking) they still find a way. That being said though, I doubt these will really be hackable for many different reasons

@dannnnn809 Ай бұрын

Scary 😨

@overwatch8848 Ай бұрын

Im good.

@alexmangrum90 Ай бұрын

They will eventually decide that for you 😅

@davidsklyarov3950 Ай бұрын

Yep😂

@parthnagdev Ай бұрын

you are on the registry

@ihrdforth3 Ай бұрын

He's right, your on the list I saw it

@mrpearson1230 Ай бұрын

Absolutely beautiful! So revolutionary!!

@pranititiwari6525 Ай бұрын

..right.. What an achievement...a revolutionary one 🎉

@slammer6128 Ай бұрын

Thinking it might be a bad idea to rush something like this.

@Liusila Ай бұрын

Some people would prefer a glitchy ad-filled neuralink that helps their body move than staying completely paralysed, for example.

@bodaciousskies Ай бұрын

Humans have always rushed into things. We invented flight in 1903 and went to the moon 66 years later 😂😂 is that not a hyper leap? New tech has always brought paranoia to the older generation i saw propaganda about electricity companies back in Edisons time talking about electricity being the unseen evil

@incubus_the_man Ай бұрын

Or it could make people into slaves, zombies or Terminators... Skynet(Google, Facebook etc, the govt) could control the world using tech like this

@mac2875 Ай бұрын

Imagine a world where you think of a product and having a big company say amazon send it to you and bills you claiming you like it and your bank account is empty, but not to worry the ads will be subliminal as you won't see them as they just get streamed directly into your subconscious and suddenly i want to buy a Tesla because i like it all of a sudden

@yuhhuhuh Ай бұрын

luckily that’s not going to happen because there has been media that has warned against it

@josher887 Ай бұрын

Do they intend to do a more centralized and direct version of VNS (you guys should do a video on that too) [I waited 3 years for VNS for mood disorder approval but by that time I didn’t need it]😊 6:09

@OneHappyCrazyPerson Ай бұрын

What a weapon system dammm

@AdvantestInc Ай бұрын

The advancements in BCI technology highlighted in the video, especially the minimally invasive approaches, could revolutionize not just healthcare but our daily interaction with technology.

@GeenSama Ай бұрын

But for me I think muscle memory help me more than my brain, a lot of time when I'm coding something, I don't really remember the keywords, I feel like my hands are moving on their own and they memorize how to write and code stuff

@aidencoronado Ай бұрын

I want it how do i sign up

@yoboyklaw8315 Ай бұрын

Tbh this is more than just the start companies have been doing this for the longest they are just showing their successful practices they have done not the failed hence why they don’t mention the negative impact everything has side effects

@johnnyrodriguez4549 Ай бұрын

The beast

@Semper_Iratus Ай бұрын

what could possibly go wrong?

@andrewpage8759 Ай бұрын

You don't want disabled people to be able to interact with the outside world?

@alexmangrum90 Ай бұрын

@@andrewpage8759That's not what they're doing, reality is this will be used for power & control, while risking civilization. Shame on mankind.

@ThePWNDR Ай бұрын

@@andrewpage8759these people want something to be afraid of. Entire lives searching for something to cry about or be afraid of

@googleaccount4256 Ай бұрын

Enough with the conspiracy theories mate

@alexmangrum90 Ай бұрын

@@googleaccount4256 Fake bot much?

@D4gger542 Ай бұрын

Man’s plugged in 😂😂😂😂 2:30

@Slinky_Spine Ай бұрын

I never thought I'd actually see a man plugged in, in real life.

@CBY404 Ай бұрын

Imagine EMP...

@familypowergroup Ай бұрын

I wanna know what species these people are afterwards and what’s happens to their brains during an EMP or electrical shock

@HazelVsTheWrld Ай бұрын

Clearly Elon and his science team haven't played Cyberpunk 2077.

@user-dp5dd7ds4b Ай бұрын

You guys have been killing the KZfaq game lately!

@ayushsrivastava1672 Ай бұрын

So STEM from the movie 'Upgrade (2018)' is soon gonna be a reality now

@kendannon4435 Ай бұрын

I'm excited for people. This can help so much.

@jubilant714 Ай бұрын

666 vibes fr be careful y’all

@Brukrex Ай бұрын

I can't believe the bible talked about this thousands of years ago.

@ekaeka837 Ай бұрын

Antichrist will appear soon

@jubilant714 Ай бұрын

@@ekaeka837 facts

@alvinvoo1236 Ай бұрын

well this gonna be annoying because now ads are gonna be shown in our heads while we sleeping now

@ZoltanSzaszBenedek Ай бұрын

We can already communicate telepathically naturally: Solfeggio frequencies! ;)

@theplacebeyondthelies2429 Ай бұрын

these frequencies are hearable sounds to the human ear, they have nothing to do with communicating secretly from brain to brain or heart to heart. Neither brain nor heart produces these sounds. They feed you with spiritual lies to sell you their music as "healing", when it truth it is hypnotic.

@roystonboodoo7525 Ай бұрын

Lucipher also had very expansive views when he was in heaven.

@Blucifer-K Ай бұрын

“Track”

@mydaughterandme1996 28 күн бұрын

Pls I need the trial plssss

@chaunceywilliams7481 Ай бұрын

Agent Smith vs Neal

@ruebenaragon493 Ай бұрын

I'm chippin in!

@Esztrkllr7 Ай бұрын

Oh my... Just NO!!

@LesterSuggs Ай бұрын

Imagine putting a microchip in your head *FROM BLACKROCK!!* MUH HUH HAH HA HA HA HA HA

@BlackrockNeurotech Ай бұрын

Hi. 🧠 Please note that we are not affiliated with BlackRock, the financial firm.

@MrD3STR03R Ай бұрын

@@BlackrockNeurotechUnfortunate, I would rename the company at this point lol

@synthdream Ай бұрын

@@BlackrockNeurotechuh yall might wanna change your name lol. Unless you want to be subjected to conservative conspiracy theories and possibly put yourself in danger. Honestly not a good name. Cool tech though

@irfanadamm5819 Ай бұрын

was that an ai pin

@zyphergaming24 Ай бұрын

Imagine playing fps games through this .

@auro1986 Ай бұрын

instead make caps with this technology that when you wear on head to control other products

@zachb1706 Ай бұрын

They don’t have enough precision.

@caotuanvo8480 Ай бұрын

This is one of the things not worth racing for. I would rather take the time with research and testing and have completely reliable product once on the market rather than just being the first one

@AlissonKevin Ай бұрын

Imagine being born in 2030 and having this technology feeling it as a normal thing…

@TheTutoriales1971 Ай бұрын

i need one for my facial nervouse and my eye nervouse :c

@jnieto490 Ай бұрын

Neural implants and AI actually a real thing? Bro we're living in a sci-fi world 😂

@alephnoll6626 Ай бұрын

Can't wait to install Arch on my brain and play Doom!

@7.62x39G Ай бұрын

After BO3 campaign I know d#mn well I’m not getting it

@zebierx Ай бұрын

This story is about a "competitor" to neuralink and uses clickbait to promote their own tech and simultaneously bash neuralink and Musk. Pathetic.

@aadityapratap007 Ай бұрын

That's madness.

@Charvak-Atheist Ай бұрын

I don't have medical condition. But I want that, because I want to control computer and other machines directly from by brain. Although I will wait till the technology becomes better and cheaper.

@Sam-yk2ix Ай бұрын

Can you make the implant generic so I and others can build our own open source connector, not tracked by advertisers?

@White_Breeder Ай бұрын

Why would they do that when they could sell your thoughts to China?

@erickmk2682 Ай бұрын

Wouldn't those implants cause a lot of damage if you get a concussion

@Blucifer-K Ай бұрын

Just “track”

@JohnBernardin Ай бұрын

Why not include someone working at Neuralink to comment about their work?

@marijandesin8226 Ай бұрын

Helping disabled is not where the money is Just saying It's not the main drive behind the investment

@johnnonso7484 Ай бұрын

End of privacy

@daviddaviscrawford3669 Ай бұрын

This is huge!!! Amazing!!! He paused music WITH HIS MIND!!! HOOK ME UP PLEASE

@yoshisisland24 Ай бұрын

OMFG watch Black Mirror

@morganhely5605 Ай бұрын

Just wait until they change the charging cables....😂😂😂

@User9681e Ай бұрын

Matrix

@ares106 Ай бұрын

Why can’t I use this to control my computer as a normally functioning person. Why is all the research focusing on those that are infirm as if this technology should only be reserved for them?

@VolodymyrPankov Ай бұрын

Because it's scientific profanation and scam.

@fritzstammen4535 Ай бұрын

It's in it's early stages, medical applications get priority but they're using it as an opportunity to develop the tech for people who aren't sick

@Superbustr Ай бұрын

I see the benefits of a neural chip for people who are majorly disabled. But it's a hard no for me.

@jsemail894 Ай бұрын

I’ll just be glad to know o lived at a time before the brain implants in much the same way I reverie the times before the internet and before smartphones. “The good times” 😂

@ryanbuckner2405 Ай бұрын

Just give me the 3 beer buzz button that I can click on and off 😂

@ReznaQay Ай бұрын

this is quicker than inputing and outputting infromation on a computer outside the body. people will start using these to work better and make more money, and soon it will be the standard and a must. jobs will require it, and if you cant get a job then you will starve. you will be behind if you dont have it, like people today without a computer/phone/email

@onemillionpercent Ай бұрын

so what do you think about that?

@Blucifer-K Ай бұрын

Now we can all turn into robots and add to our resume that we have a brain chip 🤡

@tuttappanna1 Ай бұрын

I want a ship

@shauryasharma2268 Ай бұрын

Notif gang 💪🏻

@ShyCataclysm Ай бұрын

Synchron won't make it with its surgery process alone

@tetzet3254 Ай бұрын

Universal soldiers lol

@monilasharmin5367 Ай бұрын

So why is no one realising we are in a matrix😂😂😂

@deepakp2641 Ай бұрын

Future ripper docs

@honestnewsnet Ай бұрын

Experiment?

@deeb3272 Ай бұрын

imagine having an army of ppl with neuralink

@Chad-Giga. Ай бұрын

I imagine them getting hacked

@robertbenz496 Ай бұрын

Dude people are talking about moving a mouse, what happens when the wifi guy hacks you?

@ThePWNDR Ай бұрын

yeah because this has so much to do with WiFi. are u over the age of 50?

@OneHappyCrazyPerson Ай бұрын

BlackRock, keep'n peasants in line since 2012

@randomsonmymind6919 Ай бұрын

Just by reading the video title, you would think that the company doesn't have a name.

@spacewalker9375 Ай бұрын

Motif’s old office used to be across from my office

@miket2394 Ай бұрын

The machine god approves! All Hail the Omnissiah!!!

@dbz9393 Ай бұрын

maybe in 100 years when they work out all the kinks

@maemilev Ай бұрын

I'm curious about the censorship algorithm at that level.

@Babasamama700 Ай бұрын

Feels like this documentary is to promote Elon’s competitors. Plus, How come no one from Neuralink was interviewed?

@Tulip258 Ай бұрын

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” Dr. Ian Malcolm.

@Eoin-B Ай бұрын

What are you talking about? Stroke victims, MS patients and quadriplegics need this badly. Put yourself in their shoes and ask whether doctors and engineers should be figuring this out.

@sapphyrus Ай бұрын

"I'm healthy so I'm against all new tech till I need it" said the luddite.

@TheManinBlack9054 Ай бұрын

@@sapphyrusit can go bad and dangerous very quick

@sapphyrus Ай бұрын

@@TheManinBlack9054 Nobody is forcefully opening people’s skulls against their wishes, people went the deep end with conspiracy.

@TheManinBlack9054 Ай бұрын

@@sapphyrusim not thinking of a conspiracy theory, im thinking of all possible ramifications, especially negative ones and there are many especially coupled with possible AI tech

@Iris-en5qp Ай бұрын

This is not going to end well.

@danielmartin7838 Ай бұрын

This is similar to the technology that aliens use to operate the “little grey” genetically engineered avatars.

@Michael-mh2tw Ай бұрын

'I'm sorry, but the phrase you were about to think is not in accordance with our user policy. Please think something else'

@JoseAlba87 Ай бұрын

😅 better than a Brain 🧠 Bug 🐛 😨 Starship Troopers The movie 🍿

@az6408 Ай бұрын

AND NOW I INTRODUCE YOU TO NEW GOD MR ELON MUSK

@MrD3STR03R Ай бұрын

Imagine trusting anything by blackrock, that is hilarious.

@TheManinBlack9054 Ай бұрын

They are not affiliated with the financial firm

@MrD3STR03R Ай бұрын

@@TheManinBlack9054They're affiliated with the name whether they like it or not, really bad optics.

@user-zn9ke8um8s Ай бұрын

@@MrD3STR03RWtf. That's like blaming that Uunona guy for having the same name as the Austrian painter 😂😂

@JonnyCasey Ай бұрын

What's with the bias? Basically bashing Neuralink for being 10 years ahead of it's competitors. Neuralink - tested and refined without having to experiment on humans and then implanted the final functional device for permanent usage in a human. Precision - 10 years away from first implant of a final product in a human and currently prototyping and experimenting their device with human subjects... also not anywhere near as capable as neuralink Synchron - nowhere near as capable as neuralink, using a crude approach that will never converge to anything remotely near to what Nueralink has already achieved (inter cranial 1:1 neuron read/write ability all in a single package not requiring any implant in the chest etc.)