First Human to Receive Neuralink Implant Says It Lets Him Play Civilization VI
First Human to Receive Neuralink Implant Says It Lets Him Play Civilization VI
29-year-old Nolan Arbaugh, a quadriplegic, says the brain implant has allowed him to play chess and Civilization on his PC using his mind. 'I’m so freaking lucky to be a part of this,' he says.
If it's not open source and open hardware I'm not putting that shit in my head lmfao
Yep, there's already horror stories about other implants where the patients were left high and dry when the company that made them went under.
It's only a hop step from there to something less invasive thankfully.
Intravascular neural interfaces are already reducing the invasiveness, but hopefully that is just a short step.
I doubt I'd care if I was paraplegic. Very easy to say from a point of privilege.
You might. You don't want to get into a situation where Neuralink says that they're not doing BCI like the ones installed in your head any more, and have it shut down spontaneously when the company turns off support.
It's happened before to people with artificial eyes, and they're both left blind because the hardware doesn't work any more, and they can't afford to have it removed (if that's even safely doable).
It's exactly the people that can have a choice who should be helping those who can't, don't you agree?
The fight for open software and hardware wouldn't be made by going around paraplegic people and bothering them about it, but by discussing it with the vendors and legislators.
(1) ngl that is amazing, a heart-warming story
(2) still fuck Elon Musk
Don't forget it wasn't made by The Musk. There are probably countless people involved in technology like that. Emerald boi probably just foot the bill and flapped his jowls.
The implant works by reading the brain signals from the user and translating them into Bluetooth-based remote commands
“From there, it just became intuitive for me to start imagining the cursor moving. Basically, it was like using the Force on a cursor and I could get it to move wherever I wanted,”
Awesome.
Reminds me of the emotive headset.
B...bluetooth?
Oh no. Reverse that flow of data and "Hackable brains" are a thing. Cool. /s
Pfft. I can already play Civ 6 and I didn't need no brain implant. I'm not impressed. /s
Yyyeah noninvasive bcis have been able to move mice for well over a decade. Nice to see they cleared this hurdle and I'm glad the dude didn't die, but this isn't how you do medicine.
"Move fast and break
thingsmonkeys before getting FDA cleared to risk humans."
I think this counts as a Science Victory
Yeah, we'll wait till Ghandi gets nukes... It's not so fun then.
If I had that ability I would probably die in my chair muttering "Just one more turn..."