Honestly neuralink isn't even pushing new tech. It's recapitulating stuff people in the BCI field have been doing for a while and slapping a big tech website on it. The pushed this out onto biorxiv a few years ago (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/703801v4) and I remember the field kind of laughing at musk for being an idiot. The guy spent millions to build a fancy tetrode which is cool but not something incredibly novel.

This post was edited by Sioux on Feb 15 2022 01:25am

They are pushing forward to send electrical signals into the brain, increasing the amount of electrodes. And trying to go deeper.

I guess the first researches are on the implentation itself:



It's super invasive btw

also not novel.Tetrodes are a thing, their innovation might be number of channels/size of the device but it isn't by any means a massive leap forward on current technology. Neurostimulators have been a thing for decades.

This post was edited by Sioux on Feb 15 2022 02:52pm

It's mostly about engineering progress IMO, i hope you understand that. Then the essential political question

Not about a "uuuh nothing new".....

Electrical car were "invented" 130 years ago. Active noise cancelling exists since 50's but only started to be applied in the 80's. etc

I understand what you're saying, but it isn't a great leap of engineering progress. They made recording devices a little smaller but lost single cell resolution as a result. If they can solve that problem maybe it'll lead to something new, but right now they've thrown 100 million at a problem to make a small hardware improvement.

really ? so fucking thank you for skilled input regarding politics or social implications on this subject.

I'm just telling you what people in the neuroscience field think. They think Elon has over-hyped an incremental improvement in hardware, and essentially ignored all the work that's been done on BCI to date.