Here is my take on the Neuralink’s demo that took place a couple of days ago:
- It’s pretty interesting how they want to provide a more progressive way to fix some medical & mental problems compared to the traditional treatments.
- But .. providing the demo on 3 little pigs is not the way to demonstrate it’s totally safe for humans! Walking pigs that are consuming food has nothing to do with humans! I’m talking: creative work, memories, relationships .. etc.. Testing the chip on pigs for a couple of months says nothing about how successful the chip is. Honestly I was expecting Elon Musk to have it implanted in himself as strong evidence it’s safe enough! And then it would have been debatable anyway.
- If it would help in some cases like hearing loss & blindness, that would be more than great. But I wonder what would be written in the patient’s consent before the operation!
- Comparing the security of a device that sends electric pulses to the brain cannot be in any possible way the same as the security of a Tesla car. That’s a bad comparison.
- The chip is using some technologies and no single technology on earth is either unbreachable or flawless. Imagine that attached to a brain! The slightest bug or breach is an endgame!
- If a vaccine takes years to be tested & approved safe for humans. Such device needs even more years/ decades with volunteers to get the minimum approval.
- I don’t want to get started on data privacy & tracking!
Conclusion: the abstract goal is marvelous .. The approach is a bit creepy! But I’m still curious to see how far this would go …
below is the live demo .. it starts around 49:00