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Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year (www.theverge.com)
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[–] isaaclyman@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I think we all know where this is going.

  1. The Brainchip is trendy in Silicon Valley but doesn’t do much yet. The company says cyber-superintelligence will be available in a year, tops. Investors are pouring billions into it. Everyone says you need to hop on the trend now or you’ll be obsolete in six months.
  2. It’s been two years. The Brainchip still struggles to control a mouse or search Google. Everyone’s lost interest in building apps for it. Many users are reporting severe migraines, but the company says there’s nothing to worry about.
  3. The Brainchip pipes three unskippable ads directly to your optic nerve every time you go to the bathroom. Notifications ping your brain all day long. You can get it removed if you’ve got $80k to burn, but there’s a high risk of postoperative stroke.

Yeah, no, I’m not putting anything in my brain that isn’t open-source from end to end. And even then probably nah.

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Why so pessimistic? With any luck brainchips will mean the end of annoying adverts once and for all. You'll just feel an unexpected desire to acquire certain products. And maybe crippling headaches or a nauseating feeling of unease if you ignore these urges

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

the only way, and I mean the ONLY way I'll put hardware in my brain is if I have resurrection level support like in Altered Carbon.

the fear of losing my outward identity over the ability to live forever is worth losing.

[–] lucelu2@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I wonder how often you have to back up in case you need a reboot.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

You still won't be able to live forever.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

this isn't for you, you're not a paraplegic, are you?

[–] isaaclyman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The article does not mention paraplegia.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why does it have to? All current bci's are designed for the disabled, why would this one be an exception?

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So rich people can make money on the hype and sale of a new product to the masses?

you know, like literally everything?

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

that's where regulators step in, do you honestly believe elon musk would not be implanting healthy people with neuralinks if regulators would allow? They won't, this is tech for people whose lives are so awful that not having one is worse than the things that may go wrong, for a very, very long time.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I didn't think an old nazi with 32 felonies would be the leader of the free world, I've been surprised a few times in my life but nothing really does it anymore.

Can you say your statement could hold up against 50 years of future trends? Transhumanism? Fanatics who want it so bad that they make it law?

For that matter, who's regulating Ai right now?

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

No, it won't hold up for 50 years, but if you don't want one don't get it?

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -1 points 1 day ago

The Brainchip is trendy in Silicon Valley but doesn’t do much yet.

These guys would beg to differ:

https://thedebrief.org/neuralinks-first-human-trials-mark-one-year-of-control-through-telepathy/