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dalton99a

(81,065 posts)
Fri May 26, 2023, 04:20 PM May 2023

Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink says it has US approval to begin trials in people

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-neuralink-brain-computer-interface-7e80956022b1d8f31ee24ed7c1fe1138

Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink says it has US approval to begin trials in people
By LAURA UNGAR

Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink says it’s gotten permission from U.S. regulators to begin testing its device in people.

The company made the announcement on Twitter Thursday evening but has provided no details about a potential study, which was not listed on the U.S. government database of clinical trials.

Officials with the Food and Drug Administration wouldn’t confirm or deny whether the agency granted the approval, but press officer Carly Kempler said in an email that the FDA “acknowledges and understands” that Musk’s company made the announcement.

Neuralink is one of many groups working on linking the nervous system to computers, efforts aimed at helping treat brain disorders, overcoming brain injuries and other applications.

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Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink says it has US approval to begin trials in people (Original Post) dalton99a May 2023 OP
Let me think - do I want an electronic device implanted in my brain? Initech May 2023 #1
By the same guy who produced DeSantis's announcement wryter2000 May 2023 #5
Ha ha ha ha ha, right? Initech May 2023 #6
SpaceX happens to be highly successful at launching rockets EX500rider May 2023 #11
Hint to Elon: the owner of the Men's Hair Club is a customer. Just saying. marble falls May 2023 #2
Actually, they are looking for woke people to see if the transformation into MAGAts works. nt TexasTowelie May 2023 #3
Someone would let Elon Musk mess with their brain? wryter2000 May 2023 #4
Hidden clause in the $8 Twitter Blue terms of service? AZSkiffyGeek May 2023 #9
LOL wryter2000 May 2023 #14
I imagine paralyzed & blind people? nt EX500rider May 2023 #12
What with the Hard Right's newfound hatred of everything... jmowreader May 2023 #7
I hope they're accounting for any interaction between Buns_of_Fire May 2023 #8
+1 dalton99a May 2023 #18
The animal trials have been a horror show. Eugene May 2023 #10
So if you get this thing implanted, do you turn into an idiot like Musk immediately? Vinca May 2023 #13
Muppets first, Elmo C_U_L8R May 2023 #15
... roamer65 May 2023 #16
This will go SO well Metaphorical May 2023 #17
Musk? Oh, HELL no Hekate May 2023 #19
Hard pass. Niagara May 2023 #20
I'm sure plenty of the cult of musk will line right up. Javaman May 2023 #21
He can start with himself nt 617Blue May 2023 #22
I think to many investors who wish to make profits in the margins, the glass is ever so less than Waterguy May 2023 #23
Florida, I'm pretty sure he's looking at you. Maru Kitteh May 2023 #24
Skilled Trades Folk would do better with more Trade Unions Waterguy May 2023 #26
Um, I meant for test subjects actually. Given Eloo's "special relationship" with Maru Kitteh May 2023 #27
Get live video feeds working first... Silent3 May 2023 #25

Initech

(99,909 posts)
6. Ha ha ha ha ha, right?
Fri May 26, 2023, 04:36 PM
May 2023

After the way he handles electric cars, space rockets, underground tunnels and presidential campaign announcements...

EX500rider

(10,517 posts)
11. SpaceX happens to be highly successful at launching rockets
Fri May 26, 2023, 05:06 PM
May 2023
Since March 2006, SpaceX has launched 5 Falcon 1's, 226 Falcon 9's, 6 Falcon Heavy, and 1 Starship rockets. Of these, 3 Falcon 1, 2 Falcon 9 and 1 Starship launches were complete failures and 1 Falcon 9 launch were partial failures. As of May 2023, SpaceX has a 97.4% launch success rate.

jmowreader

(50,447 posts)
7. What with the Hard Right's newfound hatred of everything...
Fri May 26, 2023, 04:37 PM
May 2023

I can't help thinking of the "V-Chip" in the South Park movie, which Kyle's mom had invented after her son saw the Terrance and Philip movie. "It gives the child a small shock anytime an obscenity is uttered."

Yeah, the Republicans will have it set up for "P" mode, which zaps you if you think about porn; "V" mode, which zaps you for cursing; "B" mode, which gets you for liking President Biden; "T" mode, for insufficient love of Donald Trump; "G" mode, in case you accidentally think of Teh Gay; "D" mode, if you feel like doing drag today; and on and on.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,119 posts)
8. I hope they're accounting for any interaction between
Fri May 26, 2023, 04:37 PM
May 2023

the brain plugs and the nanochips everyone received when they got the COVID vaccine.

Eugene

(61,592 posts)
10. The animal trials have been a horror show.
Fri May 26, 2023, 04:40 PM
May 2023

Musk's callous irresponsibility should disqualify anything he touches if human lives are in the balance.

Metaphorical

(1,601 posts)
17. This will go SO well
Fri May 26, 2023, 05:32 PM
May 2023

One of the central challenges of any kind of neural interfaces is heat production, especially at the point where you're interfacing neurons and electronics. It's one reason that I've NEVER felt that we are going to see a serious cyborg revolution - the potential for literal burnout, epileptic seizures, strokes, aneurisms, and so forth, is simply too high.

Javaman

(62,439 posts)
21. I'm sure plenty of the cult of musk will line right up.
Fri May 26, 2023, 09:46 PM
May 2023

Right? Right?

Perhaps musky should get the first lobotomy..er… I mean implant

Waterguy

(237 posts)
23. I think to many investors who wish to make profits in the margins, the glass is ever so less than
Sat May 27, 2023, 01:01 AM
May 2023

To many investors the glass is less than half full when it comes to Elon Musk's ability to undertake technological knowhow and make a
continuous positive profit worth investing in

I'll try to para phrase what Elon Musk would say in his own style:


"I've always said the financial sector has gotten too big for its bretches in todays world, so much so as to put a rake handle in the very face of progress. It's always the same, can't see the tree in the forest has its roots based in canals, tiny passage ways which are amazing, you can't invent that stuff driving by a forest at high speeds looking through the back seat window of your dads old station wagon, oh no.

Technologies based in scientific knowledge, you know that old thread, lndeed needs to quicken the pace in all areas,
and I mean all areas from the existential threat of emiting green house gases into our atmosphere,
to saving a bunch of kids who are trapped in a cave with a new mini submarine I have invented - and with that he fires his fire thrower at a computer displaying some social media website - a real fire thrower which of course you can purchase
online, because everyone wishes they had one if they only could.

Let us populate Mars and open up Space, the Universe as we understand it to people like me.
Afterall NASA, did a pretty good job, brought in a lot of technology we all use today. Well I just think my SpaceX privately owned can further the cause too"

Just in:
The FDA acknowledged in a statement that the agency cleared Neuralink to use its brain implant and surgical robot for trials on patients but declined to provide more details.

The critical milestone comes as Neuralink faces federal scrutiny following Reuters reports about the company's animal experiments.

Neuralink employees told Reuters last year that the company was rushing and botching surgeries on monkeys, pigs and sheep, resulting in more animal deaths than necessary, as Musk pressured staff to receive FDA approval. The animal experiments produced data intended to support the company's application for human trials, the sources said.

In one instance in 2021, the company implanted 25 out of 60 pigs with the wrong-sized devices. All the pigs were subsequently killed - an error that employees said could have been easily avoided with more preparation.


The critical milestone comes as Neuralink faces federal scrutiny following Reuters reports about the company's animal experiments.

Neuralink employees told Reuters last year that the company was rushing and botching surgeries on monkeys, pigs and sheep, resulting in more animal deaths than necessary, as Musk pressured staff to receive FDA approval. The animal experiments produced data intended to support the company's application for human trials, the sources said.

In one instance in 2021, the company implanted 25 out of 60 pigs with the wrong-sized devices. All the pigs were subsequently killed - an error that employees said could have been easily avoided with more preparation.






Waterguy

(237 posts)
26. Skilled Trades Folk would do better with more Trade Unions
Sat May 27, 2023, 01:43 AM
May 2023

You want a better anything - a union can teach and protect a skilled workers
outcome which enables a better world.

I think it's about promoting peoples potential Elon,

I say that since I work next to his Tesla Motors plant in Fremont, CA.

If you think about all the market capital that has gone into that place,
I would take the worker, imagine him or her better trained, more respected,
and given the opportunity to learn,

And then you place it next to the understanding of how best to
represent the local environment towards improving a sustainable
distribution methodology that is both efficient and environmentally
positive - well then, you have a mix some people invision as a true
synergy that produces for all the right reasons.

Hey, this is no Utopian nonsense
I was born in the late 1950's
I lived through some of FDR's policies
when nothing was by any means perfect back then,
but there certainly was something about
understanding how we were all in it together -
Look racism is laced with ignorance and cruelity

And it's not very efficient for a reason

The thing that really makes a better world is
improving peoples potential

That was the hope behind the creation of the world wide web
the distribution of knowledge to be used as a tool for the betterment
of all people.

Doby Gillis secretly felt this way, I felt that was the secret behind the success of that show.
Then it was of course followed later on by John Denver as Gilligan in Gilligan's Island.

And oh boy, then you come full circle with a positive philosophy of life and one day some success.

It's all so obviously there, but no matter how hard you try you just can't get there do to incredibly
silly hijinks


Maru Kitteh

(28,303 posts)
27. Um, I meant for test subjects actually. Given Eloo's "special relationship" with
Sat May 27, 2023, 02:06 AM
May 2023

Governor DeFascist, I'd say prisoners and at least 1/3 of all women might be considered fair game.


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