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For a father who has a son that suffers from a rare genetic disorder in the brain which causes bouts of debilitating epilepsy, this type of thing gives me hope and maybe soon bring some treatment to allow him to regain some function and movement back for my son and possibly help aid controlling his seizures WITHOUT medication. This will help tremendously for all other people in similar situations like ours, and aid in a loved one or themselves, and open the door to many more applications. I cry with tears of hope and joy. Keep up the good work Elon, and the team at Nerualink, we need this all!
@@intotherabbithole1943 4 Of The Richest Men in History have Came Out of This NATION IN A PANDEMIC SOME HOW. Hope is Good but calling Blindness Hope is Unfortunate. And Historically Lead to The Complicity in The Hopefuls Own Destruction.
Remember the beta testers (including pigs) may have a chance ... acquire superhuman intelligence, the first thing they would do is to stop the trial and eliminate the future competitors.
@@stormevans6897 could be text to speech, but if this blind bat is waiting on musk promises, they'll be hoping for a cure from death before it ever materializes in their lifetime.
They announced that the telepathic interface is the first wave of trials and the second will be a function called "Blindsight", so the visual/graphic restoration is supposed to be next. U can probably get on their website and apply to be part of the trial, if u really are interested. I've been watching the results of the patient from the first human trial & it's amazing stuff. U should check it out & make sure to really weigh it all out if u do decide to go for it. Good luck in whatever you decide to do!😉Take care & have a great weekend!
Why no one ask as if there is a possibility that could improve our learning speed? like jumping back and forth between memories of mathematics? Or like download the skills/knowledge we need just like apps we use now? If this happens then Neurolink would not only save numerous patients, but also boost our civilization for a tremendous amount.
That would be not in this lifetime. These guys are not shooting for the moon, they are shooting for a planet that we dont know where it is millions of light years away.
So sounds like this happened now considering the first human neuralink patient, who is a quadriplegic, reported playing Civ VI for 8 hours until needing to recharge the device. Guess it was in this lifetime!@@neilgelinas9926
@@mock15halo @Sahil P Incorrect. The Chief has a Neural Lace implant at the base of his skull, similar to the Neuralink, as do all UNSC personnel. His is a more advanced version made to interface with Fourth Generation Smart AI like Cortana. She exists in the optical computer memory of the reactive metal liquid crystal layer of the MJOLNIR undersuit. And also partially within the wetware of the Chief's brain. He does not hear her through speakers in his helmet, she interfaces directly with his brain.
Imagine “neuralink movies” where you don’t just get to watch it, you live it through actor’s memories. Or record the memories of a scientist studying complex arguments or even just a series of memories of graduating students participating years and years of lessons and then downloading it into your own brain in seconds
Compared to everything else involved, that literally is the simplest part of it. We've been doing it for a long time now and have perfected the process, so they're not having to reinvent the wheel with that part of the procedure.
I pray and know this can help people like me with PTSD, GAD and panic disorder from War. I lost my mind to it in Afghanistan. I'm a brilliant surgeon, medic , ICU RN. However i had to stop. PTSD had got me bad. How will this affect our dreams? Or sudden adrenaline rushes, empathy, what we were programed to do in the Army SF? Sign me up after tested on monkeys. I'll volunteer. Can we control our use of natural hormones and endorphins?
I too am a veteran, Vietnam, and there's already a solution for most of these disorders. Stop doing war. No matter what they tell us there is no justification for it. The vast majority of people everywhere are fine, decent human beings who would rather get on with each other. However there are a handful of people, also everywhere, who make a vast amount of money out of us not getting on with each other. You rarely find them putting themselves in harm's way, that's left to us. There's evidence that over 90% of humans have what amounts to a genetic aversion to killing other humans. We can be taught to, something that's become very refined over recent decades, but doing such things against our genetic inclinations will inevitably cause trauma and we're clearly seeing the evidence of this amongst our veterans. War is not good for people and other living things.
I'm curious what the fail safes are in terms of unwanted electrical stimulus. Unforeseen jolts of electricity from say... A taser or short circuited light switch, etc. Does the network of 1024 fibers act as conduits for this unforeseen shock? What happens to the device if it's overloaded? It's absolutely fascinating stuff and I can't wait to see this company grow and develop over time.
it will blow the ADCs inside the chip and that part of your head will start to feel very warm for a brief second as the neuralink goes kapootz... a nasty burnt smell would emit as the surgical robot opens up your head afterwards
@@RobertHouse101 chill out high IQ House, he’s allowed to think critically, maybe he commented before Elon explained it, and maybe this is his first time hearing about it. Don’t be a Richard cranium
Ask someone who is blind, or someone who was paralyzed if they wouldn't like to be full operational again with the minus of having to charge their head everynight.
Just curious how you plan on overcoming the taboo thought of implanting something directing neurons to fire? In the case of paraplegics, what type of sensors are going to be implemented after the break in the spinal column. Also how do you protect the device from EMP charges from lightning strikes or anything that has the potential to create a EMP bounce situation? It seems that some sort of shielding might be required but then how do you transmit the signal to the muscle actuators wireless?
Just imagine the strides in communication we could have. For instance perhaps you’re having difficulty having someone understand how you really feel, now you can transmit that emotional feeling to them directly so now they know exactly how you feel on an empathetic level
Love and mathematics are the only two true laws of reality. It is amazing to see that we are integrating with technology, i hope this is the bridge we need to teach AI about love. Thank you elon for being brave enough to try
I have a question: How do you plan to make sure the government or similar body with authority, or any criminal or malevolent group, can never use this technology to forcefully peer into the mind of a person it designated as a criminal or public enemy and such?
they have already used it for evil for decades. Look up my playlist targeted individuals or do research on targeted individuals and electronic harassment.
I love the two-photon microscopy of the electrodes firing. Try and record or in this case watch the neurons firing during various motor and sensory activities. Try and mimic that exact response using a series of individually placed electrodes. Get good at doing this with precise accuracy. Your design will be better for it when you go to a human trial. It is much harder to guess the activity and response of so many neurons from spike data. You have almost the entire story with the microscopy. Yes, you have way to insert the leads without causing much damage. However, I imagine you only get one shot at placing them in arbitrary locations. This way the architecture of electrode placement will have a better chance of natural responses. By architecture I mean the spacing and depth of the electrodes to allow the desired response as often as possible within the allowable min and max current delivered. An empirical data set would be naturally verified so seems like a great option if the stimulated response is repeatable while changing one variable at a time. Otherwise, testing can be used to verify and multivariable optimization can be used to predict a given electrodes spacing chance of getting precise responses. Why should you take my suggestion? In the future, we can only send messages back over select internet servers...
I don't know if you can answer this but as per my understanding a normal human brain has something along the lines of 100 billion neurons. They said they have a thousand channels so they can maybe stimulate 100,000 neurons which is way lower than our maximum capacity. Plus it seems like it's triggering multiple neurons using one electrode which means the accuracy is just not there since we want control over a single neuron ideally. Plus the electrical signals of neurons are analog afaik, not digital, and those electrodes are emitting digital signals afaik. All this would mean that apart from some sensory stimulus, we won't be able to control say the fingers of a hand or have finer motions we are familiar with like twisting a screw, let alone restoring eyesight and downloading and uploading memories and what not. I am optimistic but more than anything I am a realist. All this doesn't make sense to me.
@@SahilP2648 Thanks for the question. Your comment highlights many problems with today's methods. Interestingly one neuron can control up to one degree of freedom. So recording single-cell spike data with around 200 channels can get decent motor control of a robotic arm and hand. A sensory stimulus can be given to an area but not with a natural feeling using "current" methods. Uploading and downloading memories has not been worked on much. I have an understanding of how to do it but would be too long to explain fully. Basically, though BCI has limitations due to channel count. The desired circuit needs to be imaged with nanoscale resolution. The circuit then needs to be replicated. And yes the function would be similar to analog and few scientists are modeling it that way.
I wonder how much corollary abstraction of 'spikes' might be achieved through off-platform modeling. I suppose it would depend on the sensor array config and the models ability to match the brain. There's a lot of real estate to cover and a lot of potential applications. Early success might be dependent on limiting the scope, having a proper density of arrays, and focusing on your model so you can differentiate all your states. I imagine early devices will also be read heavy, taking a light handed approach to brain input.
Oh yeah absolutely. It would be amazing to playback your internal improvisation of an entire mental orchestra. edit: And then have A.I. software dissect it and generate a conductor's score from it.
You know if Elon Musk finishes this soon, I hope we'll be able to play a somewhat like multiplayer VR game without holding a controller, and just laying on a bed ( basically asleep ) playing with your friends in your brain.
Amazing stuff. I’m surprised neither the vet nor the animal caretaker mentioned communication with animals. We could detect cancer and stuff early in pets if they or a device could communicate pain effectively for example. In general exploring the use in animals would be interesting ( example whales or dolphins ). Also a dream journal would be nice ( different from memories ).
@@paladrogree with you - twitter has exposed this guys lack of ethical boundaries. I used think that despite his obvious flaws, The vision he has for humanity was heartfelt. I realize now that it’s all a pr stunt to make himself look a savior and genius.
So, no one asks about the heating problem of the device? In passive state the device will have normal body temperature. But while transferring alot of data or charging the device can heat up which may cause some damage to brain tissue.
You also have to consider atrophy of the muscles,and movements in someone who is quadriplegic or paraplegic. I would really be interested in how that would work? It would seem that the mechanism would have to be implanted as soon as the person sustained his or her injury to get the maximum results. I can't wait to see the progression with this device down the road...especially since the video is a year old already ! Great video! I'm looking forward to seeing the advancement in this device in the near future!
Im sure the wires wont rust. Im curious how over time the wires react? And is it something where you have to get them replaced every 6 months or every 10 years.
elon literally has a right hand man. you can tell by the interaction that they’re damn near equal in intelligence 1 of them just hold the power & is able to bring things like these to fruition
Great concept, the only drawback is the battery or electricity need. If the brain and body get used to it, when it goes off it's gonna affect extremely badly the body, but let's see what can be done with the future versions.
How would head impact not jar the wires loose to move or do they just need to be in a general area so wiggle won't matter or do they have to be in a very specific location in the brain?
what else would be left to do? what do we do other than learn skill and gather knowlage if these are gonna come as easy as downloading them from internet to our brain the first thing that happens is that you won't get paid as much for your skills because its so damn easy to learn everybody knows everything.
Knowledge would be accessible, but experience would have to be practiced. So you would learn all you need over the air, but the repetition of doing would still have to be done.
@@amirhoseinmoradi7602 No..You need to look further.. If we do not have to gather knowledge anymore, and we will all be fed the same information in a blink of a second, and everyone will start to be more alike due to the fact that we will all know the same stuff, what comes next is Singularity. Search about it, it's a theory that it's likely to happen in the future.
Readings are milliseconds by half by that like measuring a cpu Gigahertz but more like 4hz - 60hz that multimeter for electronics can also pickup that frequency off the scalp...
It's amazing to witness these guys writing the history of a new technology advance generation. It makes me feel excited about the future. So thankful for what they are doing for humanity. We're going to need to be able to coexist with technology advance intelligence, that's when the aliens are going to want to talk to us.
This is a huge step in advancing humans as a species, offering cures never thought possible and so much more. This will become limitless and will go down in history as our first step to a higher advancement of ourselves
Very very impressed with your pioneering work in this field.. man machine interface to improve way of life and to save humanity from evil GI! THANKS AND GOOD LUCK!!!
As the wire goes deeper would it benefit to being able to stimulate and receive long the whole length of the wire? 1024 channels with 10 points of R/W gives orders of magnitude scalability.
Probably, but ideally you would be able to take it out. A few months ago Elon said one of his long term goals is to make is as easy (and quick) to get as Lasik eye surgery, and if that's the case, it'll probably be easy enough to remove.
Unfortunately I couldnt watch this live and because of that I couldnt ask atm, but I would be very happy if someone from the Neuralink team could answer me on a question I have. When I started to think about the possibilities of recording memories + the possibility of sharing data, I wondered: Could Neuralink be used to share knowledge itself? Congratulations to everyone envolved. The Neuralink isn't yet available, but I already feel like I am living in the future.
1:31:44 Elon elaborates on restoring motion physically. I wonder how forcing the motion when there is no physical means for that motion will affect the physical parts of the body. Will bones grind and cause pain that the neurolink numbs and subsequently cause damage physically? Maybe I'm a low level thinker and can't understand this but it's amazing.
I think that would require some sort of bidirectional communication with the muscle. As far as I understand pain, it seems subjective. One person's pain maybe another person's minor inconvenience. Also having that brain implant it would have to communicate with something on the other side of the break in signal. In the case of a paraplegic, you would have to have another receiving device on the lower end of the break in signal to stimulate the muscle into contraction.
@@bls5160 Fun fact! Scientists have the ability to analyze static from video of tin foil to recreate sound. Any camera (even on a phone remotely if you think that can happen) can potentially analyze sound from imaging of tin foil. Just trying to help homies out. :)
@@blushies2655 That's just crazy! Have you watched the Netflix documentary with Zac Efron called Down to Earth. Zac takes you all over the world showing how different countries are making great strides in saving the environment through science and nature. It's really interesting to see how innovative some countries are.
The tech is similar to first generation telephones. But image when the device will go very easily and blend without surgery The implanting device will be handheld. Wow... Kudos musk.
Wait what happens if you’re hit in the place where the device is inserted button wise after the surgery of course since it replaces the skull bone in that area.
Pharmaceutical corporations will hate this. It could be a life changer for those suffering chronic pain or even terminal diseases. The amount of money spent worldwide on addictive painkillers is ridiculous and tragic. Its only beginning but the people working at Neuralink seemed extremely smart, capable and responsible. As long as they keep good practices and are well regulated this could one of the biggest positive breakthroughs for humanity.
I'm not sure which is crazier, the assumption that you can quickly teach neurology to a computer scientist, or that it's less efficient to teach computer science to a neurologist.
Someone hacked your implant and makes you experience time at 1,000 years per minute, with the song "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" playing repeatedly. What a time to live in!
I absolutely love this. This can be seen as the next step in our evolution as tool users. The purposeful application of stones and spears allowed us to conquer the world - taking minds and allowing consciousness to enact itself directly... It's going to be weird, and with time, it will be marvelous. I would be curious how intellectual sandboxing might be achieved, in the context of a neural network that can and will be interacting with other systems. Memories are a configuration of connections within the brain - so if memories can be restored, that implies a remapping of potentials. A format and load event. Taking this technology to it's end potential, whole brain connectivity, how might we protect ourself from overwrite. (To those that might be familiar with the show Dollhouse, I am asking this: how do we avoid an "Epitaph One" scenario.)
@@iakb334 yes indeed, I do have mixed feelings about this. I'm at the same time excited and scared. I'm excited because this will change the course of history, it will lead to the development of the human spices and will help millions of people with chronic diseases. I'm scared because people are greedy, scary and opportunistic, this device will give them an unlimited power. Like when they first invented gunpowder, they believed it will help humanity but look at the billions that have died due to people using it to serve their selfish ambitions.
Something like that will probably be one of the first real world uses apart from muscle stimulation. Like someone thinking words and them appearing in a text. Then writing it into the brain so you hear a voice maybe?
@Russell dOoM Sounds good but i kinda want a ghost in the Shell like Body on Top of that... then again whats the point if you can Upload yourself into whatever Matrix Type of World you like and just chill there like People do in MMO Games today...
Horstveratu my concern with any “download” of consciousness though is that it’s not actually possible to “move” consciousness, only copy it to a new location if ever possible of that even. YOU would still basically die in your current body and just make an artificial clone of you. So you would never ever become immortal, but just create an immortal neo human race.
1:1:48 "What Dorothy illustrate is that YOU can put in neural link, remove it,and be healthy,happy and INDISTINGUISHABLE from a NORMAL PIG" - E M. 😂😂. By the way, congratulations to the team. Hope it helps a lot of people. Keep innovating.👍
I myself wonder how it would react in a monsoon type situation. Often when lightning strikes it generates an EMP pulse which can potentially surge electronics. If you have a antenna and are watching a show during lightning storms you will often see the crackle on the TV for each strike. Those electrodes seem so tiny that it wouldn't take much of a surge current to blow them.
Epilepsy is one of the diseases that is most likely to be controlled with this system. Try to connect with people with the same problem, use the networks to be in the starting line of the experiments. I wish you good luck.
