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Elon Musk has unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain to demonstrate his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.

"It's kind of like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires," the billionaire entrepreneur said on a webcast .

His start-up Neuralink applied to launch human trials last year.

The interface could allow people with neurological conditions to control phones or computers with their mind.

Mr Musk argues such chips could eventually be used to help cure conditions such as dementia, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injuries.

But the long-term ambition is to usher in an age of what Mr Musk calls "superhuman cognition", in part to combat artificial intelligence so powerful he says it could destroy the human race.

Gertrude was one of three pigs in pens that took part in Friday's webcast demo. She took a while to get going, but when she ate and sniffed straw, the activity showed up on a graph tracking her neural activity. She then mostly ignored all the attention around her.

The processor in her brain sends wireless signals, indicating neural activity in her snout when looking for food.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53956683
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I don't get it... He literally just showed 2 pigs with no proof either has anything. For all we know he just got them from a local farm the day before. Where are they getting signals and processing anything of use.
 
I would say an interface between the ears and the brain is still a good starting point to actually interface. Reading general magnitude of brain waves is nothing new (there was even a game that used it a bit ago)
 
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Yea no. This so they can send ads directly into out brain all the time. All your dreams will just be tv ads.
 
Meh control a computer. What happened to that chip that would allow blind people to see, or deaf people to hear?
That is far more impressive than a remote in your head.
 
I don't get it... He literally just showed 2 pigs with no proof either has anything. For all we know he just got them from a local farm the day before. Where are they getting signals and processing anything of use.

Actually he showed off a graph of predicted brain behavior for the pig walking. The brain graph showed what the sensors where seeing... and they had a prediction algorithm that was predicting the pigs brain spikes for walking almost exactly.

What that means is they have a realistic way to read brain behavior for motor functions.... if you are a unlucky human who has lost a limb. This tech will allow you to control a motorized replacement limb using the EXACT same brain waves you where using to control your real limb before it was lost. It means instead of years relearning with our current tech to manage to get a grasping hand to open and close with a ton of concentration... we may be able to simply attach a robotic limb to someone who has recently had an accident and have it function with zero time in therapy learning how to use it.

The future stuff... who knows. But the motor control is real and will work right now. We already know this can be done as it is done... Neurolink simply offers a option TODAY with that least 100x the granularity of the current method. Which Elon went over... it involves basically driving spikes in your brain and permanently loosing a chunk of it forever. That is something thousands of people do every year so they can gain basic control of motorized limbs. This new approach should be magnitudes safer... and not destroy parts of your brain. We are quite literally at the same point Will Smith was at in iRobot. Replacing lost limbs with this tech should basically be possible right now.... it will take a few years for all the regulation and for them to prove it is completely safe (or at least a far better risk option vs the current tech). This isn't even a potential thing anymore... this is going to improve millions of lives even if they stop going forward right now.

Even if Tesla becomes the only car company left on the planet in the future... and SpaceX colonizes Mars. Neurolink may be the biggest thing Elon was ever involved in. (even if we don't become biological networked computer systems lol)
 
Actually he showed off a graph of predicted brain behavior for the pig walking. The brain graph showed what the sensors where seeing... and they had a prediction algorithm that was predicting the pigs brain spikes for walking almost exactly.

What that means is they have a realistic way to read brain behavior for motor functions.... if you are a unlucky human who has lost a limb. This tech will allow you to control a motorized replacement limb using the EXACT same brain waves you where using to control your real limb before it was lost. It means instead of years relearning with our current tech to manage to get a grasping hand to open and close with a ton of concentration... we may be able to simply attach a robotic limb to someone who has recently had an accident and have it function with zero time in therapy learning how to use it.

The future stuff... who knows. But the motor control is real and will work right now. We already know this can be done as it is done... Neurolink simply offers a option TODAY with that least 100x the granularity of the current method. Which Elon went over... it involves basically driving spikes in your brain and permanently loosing a chunk of it forever. That is something thousands of people do every year so they can gain basic control of motorized limbs. This new approach should be magnitudes safer... and not destroy parts of your brain. We are quite literally at the same point Will Smith was at in iRobot. Replacing lost limbs with this tech should basically be possible right now.... it will take a few years for all the regulation and for them to prove it is completely safe (or at least a far better risk option vs the current tech). This isn't even a potential thing anymore... this is going to improve millions of lives even if they stop going forward right now.

Even if Tesla becomes the only car company left on the planet in the future... and SpaceX colonizes Mars. Neurolink may be the biggest thing Elon was ever involved in. (even if we don't become biological networked computer systems lol)
Well said. People can crap on Elon but never really understand what sets him apart: his appetite for risk. Any other individual or company that reaches that level of fortune in the hundreds of billions and they coast, they want to hang onto everything. Elon will bet it all if he feels strongly enough about something - he'd burn every last cent to materialize a dream.
 
Well said. People can crap on Elon but never really understand what sets him apart: his appetite for risk. Any other individual or company that reaches that level of fortune in the hundreds of billions and they coast, they want to hang onto everything. Elon will bet it all if he feels strongly enough about something - he'd burn every last cent to materialize a dream.

eh its not really his money he is risking. He has been able to find areas of technology that are near the edge of profitability and that pushed large investor support. Do enough of that and you can start expanding out to tech farther on the horizon and you can still find investor support. This allows companies that may not have any value today but enough invester support that they just may end up in a good spot for the future.
 
eh its not really his money he is risking. He has been able to find areas of technology that are near the edge of profitability and that pushed large investor support. Do enough of that and you can start expanding out to tech farther on the horizon and you can still find investor support. This allows companies that may not have any value today but enough invester support that they just may end up in a good spot for the future.
Sure, now it's not his personal fortune, but he'd still stake it if needed. I was factoring his entire backstory, where at various points he very much had his entire personal fortune fully leveraged - example after multiple rocket launch failures, and then had to even borrow on top of it because he was determined that a third launch would succeed - and he would've been screwed had it not.
 
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Sure, now it's not his personal fortune, but he'd still stake it if needed. I was considering his entire backstory, where at various points he very much had his entire personal fortune fully leveraged - example after multiple rocket launch failures, and then had to even borrow on top of it because he was determined that a third launch would succeed - and he would've been screwed had it not.

when your trying to make a fortune risks are necessary once you have it you wont take the same risk (he cant ledverage all of his fortune on anything as most of it is shares in a company and not cash money)

He is just throwing stuff at a wall and seeing if he can get investors to make it stick. Theres a reason he doesnt continually dump dough into the boring company to make it as vast and lucritive as other companies are. He is In a good place in regards to his investor relations and support with any random thing he wants to "pursue" but thats not the same as personal risk.

None of his companies would be anything or even remotely successful without investors literally holding the idea up long enough for it to start generating money (possibly with the exception of paypal)
 
All in good fun until the Cyber-Pig Skynet revolution.

I just finished the book Children of time... with its networks of Ant based biological computers.

Perhaps... the porgs (that one is too good not to use pendragon1 ) are the best way for PETA to stop industrial pig farming. network them all and turn them into the worlds largest super computer. Make the pigs so valuable alive, that no one would could afford to eat one. lmao
 
Just wait until software can harvest not just your browser history, location and contacts, but also what you are thinking!

That is the day the world will nuke itself to death. Or if by then we have already became so immune to hate that it's the new normal and we just get more thumbs up for the snarkier insult.
 
Just wait until software can harvest not just your browser history, location and contacts, but also what you are thinking!
Easy on the tin foil, it will only be used for anonymous targeted ads. You will have no worries. No possible way they will know the data links back to you. Just don't think about where you live.

Also no one (like FBI) will use it to mistake your thoughts of anger for premiditated crimes you might commit in the future. And if they did you shouldn't be thinking angry thoughts in the first place.

And data beaches, don't worry again, they will figure out a way to make things more secure this time.
 
His start-up Neuralink applied to launch human trials last year.

The interface could allow people with neurological conditions to control phones or computers with their mind.

Mr Musk argues such chips could eventually be used to help cure conditions such as dementia, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injuries.
This is literally the plot of the movie "Upgrade" ... The character developing this tech in the movie was even modeled after Elon Musk.
 
~The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's gonna make them stay at home~

 
All I can think is BACON!!! yummy yummy ;) ;)

and pork chopss... and baby back ribs... ok I'm ordering some BBQ ribs
 
Now you think celery and onions.

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Mate, actually this is exactly what will be happening. Not sure how naive you can be to think all these instances are not going to happen.😳
Sorry, sarcasm was too subtle again? Forgot to tag it. Thought the lame excuse pitch was the giveaway
 
I'm 100% prepared to believe Facebook would do it if they could.
No doubt there are a lot of greedy companies who would love to sneak trash like that in. Can't imagine anyone advocating it except penny pinchers on top though.
 
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