[HN Gopher] Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during ... ___________________________________________________________________ Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during interview Author : sambroner Score : 63 points Date : 2024-03-20 21:37 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (twitter.com) (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com) | hablary wrote: | That's pretty amazing, the fact he's able to click the pause | button with his brain alone is insane to me - that's like Apple | Vision Pro without the gigantic goggles. | sambroner wrote: | This is a good point. Seems like a likely candidate for an S | curve in tech development. i.e. next 15 years of VR are | improvements to camera, display, and tracking technology. | Following 15 years are brain implants. | sidewndr46 wrote: | Good thing no Musk owned companies have a well established track | record of faking the entire thing | j4hdufd8 wrote: | like? | BadHumans wrote: | They are referring to Tesla promotional FSD videos being | heavily edited. | | https://www.pcmag.com/news/tesla-faked-autopilot-video- | engin... | | While not an Musk company, it is worth remembering Theranos | demos being convincingly faked as well. I don't know if it is | happening here but it does happen. | dkersten wrote: | Doesn't have to be faked either, I remember the Emotiv made | similar claims and had similar demos where to the best of | my understanding eventually people figured out it wasn't | really reading your brainwaves but rather facial muscles or | something (a friend of mine works in brain computer | interfacing and explained it to me once but I don't | remember the details -- it wasn't that they were actively | trying to mislead necessarily, more akin to leaking | validation data into neural network training than to | outright deceiving). | mdeeks wrote: | A single event isn't a "track record". Though I guess he's | been touting the Robotaxi idea for a long time and it still | isn't anywhere on the horizon. | yinser wrote: | Speculative mud slinging | TheAlchemist wrote: | Exactly my thoughts, unfortunately. | | But giving it the benefit of the doubt, this looks mind blowing | to me ! | | It was kind of known that the research and tech is almost there | for a while already, but seeing the demonstration live like | that - incredible ! | | But then it takes me back to those Musk companies - maybe it's | just a repackaged already available research presented in a | nice way - making us believe it could be 'deployed' in real | world, while in reality it can only be done in a very | controlled environment. And we are led to believe that we are | '2 weeks away' from it being widely available. Hope we're wrong | here. | brettv2 wrote: | I haven't followed Neuralink too closely since it was announced, | so I was not expecting to see what I just saw. I've seen a | handful of breakthrough moments in my life - I think this will be | remembered as one. | ccozan wrote: | It is fascinating. But looking at this guy condition, playing | games would be IMHO not the prio. I would hook up the remote | controlling to a robotic exoskeleton, for just be back and | function normal. I guess that also can be detected ( intention to | move feet or hands in any direction ). | | But let's see, we are really at the beginning. | justrealist wrote: | Well I don't think those exoskeletons even really exist yet. So | baby steps. | Firaxus wrote: | Of course, but that's going to take so much more time and | effort. You can see how much joy this man is in just having the | autonomy to move a mouse again. That's honestly amazing. | modeless wrote: | I don't think it can simultaneously control the dozens of | degrees of freedom that a robot would have. Yet. You only need | three degrees of freedom for a mouse with button. That alone is | transformational for a quadriplegic. | logtempo wrote: | there is good works done in this article: | | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06094-5 | | https://www.cea.fr/english/Pages/News/brain-computer-interfa... | timschmidt wrote: | Better than an exoskeleton is a second implant below his C4/5 | to reconnect his spinal chord with his brain via wifi. | Firaxus wrote: | The sheer joy on this mans face to be able to freely control a | mouse again, and engage with general technology. If they're able | to make this into a generally safe procedure, a lot of people | will be interested in just that. | mdeeks wrote: | I love that one of the first things he said he did was binge on | Civilization 6 until 6am. Welcome back, buddy! | | Strangely that simple example was the most powerful part for me. | I've done that so many times and it was such a fun experience. | Now he gets to re-live that joy (and follow up shame) again! | heavyset_go wrote: | I'm curious if he's signed any type of NDA or non-disparagement | agreement to receive the implant. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2024-03-20 23:00 UTC)