Elon Musk's Neuralink Gets $27 Million To Build Brain Computers (bloomberg.com) 76
An anonymous reader writes: Neuralink, the startup co-founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has taken steps to sell as much as $100 million in stock to fund the development of technology that connects human brains with computers. The San Francisco-based company has already gotten $27 million in funding, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Musk said via Twitter on Friday that Neuralink isn't seeking outside investors. In June, Musk said Neuralink is a priority after much more demanding commitments to his automotive and rocket companies. "Boring Co. is maybe 2 percent of my time; Neuralink is 3 percent to 5 percent of my time; OpenAI is going to be a couple of percent; and then 90-plus percent is divided between SpaceX and Tesla," said Musk at the electric-car maker's annual shareholder meeting.
Nice headline (Score:1)
I thought they might have ditched the idea of building an interface that connects directly to your brain(avoiding slow ponderous hand motions of keyboards/mice) and just jumped straight in the brain computer.
Whatever that is.
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It's a computer that looks like a brain, duh!
Re: Nice headline (Score:1)
Re: A little too late (Score:1)
A.I. cars are an IQ Test. If you are stupid enogh to bet your life on California Software, the Darwin Award is yours for the taking.
And what happens if a political group, like ISIS, hacks ALL Teslas and rams them into crowded markets ? Single source controlling all Vehicles with automated updates is a cyberattack terrorist mass casualty opportunity too good to pass up. Thanks Musk, but I'll keep my head attached to my neck, and my car under my control.
computers already interface with the brain (Score:2)
all joking aside, there is no way in hell am i going to allow ANY connections directly to my brain, they got to be crazy to go mucking around with connecting things directly to the brain like that
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Yes I can't imagine any software engineer who would willingly connect anything to your brain, poof you've been owned. Though you might be willing if you are a:
- parapalegic physicist
- fighter pilot (remember the movie Firefox? you have to think in Russian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] )
- ???
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I can search Google with a screen, keyboard and mouse, you know. At Quantum Mechanics is just differential equations, so "doing them in your head" isn't terribly interesting. Certainly, it's easier to do them by by having a computer solve them, but then again, I can do that with keyboard and mouse.
A Brainless Ant... (Score:2)
For me, I have no brain. I would like a computer in my head. :P
Electric shocks please (Score:2)
For people that can't use your and you're correctly
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Can it apply to "lose" and "loose" as well?
Re: Electric shocks please (Score:1)
Just send the one they asked for incorrectly. Hilarity ensues
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I do intentionally write non-existing words like "unmotivatedly".
The other day I wrote the word "unprovable" in a post, and was puzzled at the red underlining. I checked elsewhere and apparently, while improvable was ok (though clearly meaning something completely different), "unprovable", up to that point, was not a word.
Well, it is now!
Moreover, like all the best new words its meaning is / was clear not just from the context in which it appeared but also by simply reading it.
Language is not some fixed unchanging thing, forever set in stone. There are over a million wor
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Re: Electric shocks please (Score:2)
While I agree with you, the language has not changed with regards to your and you're, it just seems too hard for a lot of people to type that extra 'e'.
Re: Electric shocks please (Score:2)
Only for native speakers I'm afraid. You'll have to do a bad Spanish version if you want the same.
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hypocrisy (Score:2, Interesting)
Wasn't this motherfucker just in the news about banning some shit about "AI" so the skynet overloads wouldn't enslave us all, and now here he is building "Brain Computers."
Re:hypocrisy (Score:5, Funny)
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Ai yi yi.
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When choosing the brain to interface with... (Score:2)
AI, brains and computers (Score:2)
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"BTW: It doesn't matter anyway because we're all living in a simulation."
What next (Score:2)
My god you can't get that boy to sit still can you.
Someone tell me if he has a market-disrupting sex toy investment. He has to have one by now he has pursued just about everything else.
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To the point of parody. ;) [twitter.com]
That said, Neuralink is not new. It just hasn't made the press as much. I definitely recommend the earlier-linked Waitbutwhy [waitbutwhy.com] article, which is based on interviews with people involved in Neuralink. It's a very long article, but very detailed and thought provoking.
Neuralink is probably Musk's most ambitious project - the least likely to succeed, but with the most profound impacts on the future of humanity if it does.
Siri, lower my blood-pressure (Score:2)
Would be nice
Time is money... (Score:2)
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.005%? It's 10:10 on a weekend morning, you have posted 20 times
This is the 14th comment for today.
literally nothing you've posted is of interest to a technically minded person; it's all drama.
You must have missed reading this thread then: https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11037471&cid=55089687 [slashdot.org]
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Go to https://slashdot.org/~creimer [slashdot.org] and count.
This is the 15th comment for today. Your point?
Needs neuroscientists, not just engineers (Score:1)