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    Neuralinks erstes menschliches Subjekt demonstriert seine Gehirn-Computer-Schnittstelle


    Neuralinks erstes menschliches Subjekt demonstriert seine Gehirn-Computer-Schnittstelle

    https://www.wired.com/story/neuralink-implant-first-human-patient-demonstration/

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    2. Harry_the_space_man on

      On Wednesday, Neuralink introduced the first human subject to receive the company’s brain implant, a 29-year-old man who has been paralyzed from the shoulders down for eight years after a diving accident.

      In a brief livestream on the social media platform X, the man said he’s able to play online chess and the video game Civilization using the Neuralink device. “If y’all can see the cursor moving around the screen, that’s all me,” he said during the livestream as he moved a digital chess piece. “It’s pretty cool, huh?”

      Neuralink, which was cofounded in 2016 by billionaire Elon Musk, is developing a system known as a brain-computer interface, which decodes movement intention from brain signals. The company’s initial goal is to allow paralyzed people to control a cursor or keyboard using just their thoughts.

      The company received a greenlight from the US Food and Drug Administration last year to move ahead with an initial human trial and began recruiting paralyzed participants in the fall to test the device.

      Up until now, Neuralink has revealed few details about the progress of that study. In an X post in January, Musk announced that the first human subject had received Neuralink’s implant and was “recovering well.” In February, he said that the person had recovered and was able to control a computer mouse using their thoughts.

      “Progress is good and the patient seems to have made a full recovery, with no ill effects that we are aware of,” Musk said on February 19 in a Spaces audio conversation on X, in response to a question about the participant’s condition. “[The] patient is able to move a mouse around the screen just by thinking.”

      Some neuroscientists and ethicists have criticized Neuralink’s previous lack of transparency around the trial. What’s known about Neuralink’s study comes from social media posts and a brief brochure the company published last year.

      Neuralink has not revealed the number of subjects that will be enrolled in the study, the trial site, or outcomes that will be assessed. And the company has not registered on ClinicalTrials.gov, a government repository that contains information on medical studies involving human subjects.

    4. H_is_for_Human on

      The “move fast and break things” ethos that Musk embodies perhaps more than anyone else in tech really has the potential for harm.

      What happens when this guy gets an infection and the hardware needs to be removed? Or when Neuralink closes down if they aren’t profitable?

    5. mikedictetar on

      I don’t care what people say about Elon, but the range of things he is doing from open source AI to satellite internet and now neurallink.

      Its basically giving life to people who don’t have hope in the first place.

      I know there will be million replies below that he’s capitalistic Pig and he steals and he is republican shill and hundreds of other things but end of the day, he has the guts and risk to do something like this while you care about your monkeys and your moral standards.

      If it wasn’t for capitalism, this person wouldn’t have been able to do anything. I know most people won’t be able to afford it, but atleast this is progress. Just like ev back then was a pipe dream but now it’s everywhere.

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