All rumors. Most people don't even understand nerualink doesn't even install the chip or house the monkeys.

Lithium batteries are the standard type of battery used in things like pacemakers. They are they dense and very safe.

Of course, not to be confused with lithium ion batteries.

The monkey slaying, not so much

> Your thoughts could be controlled

big tech have already been doing this for a decade

or just leave it on because not everyone has things to hide from police

First Neuralink devices are expected to work like that. The device only scans the brain for inputs, and uses those inputs to drive peripherals like virtual mouse or keyboard. No neural feedback involved.

We don't really know what the limits of the no-feedback approach are. It could be that you would be able to achieve superhuman typing speeds on those first gen systems, with lots of practice - or that a more in-depth approach would be required for that.

Lots of things. Human brain is painfully limited and borderline inadequate for the requirements the modern world puts on it.

Of course, the current state of the art is nowhere near being able to improve on that. But that's now. BCI tech is really promising still - too many human limitations lie in the brain, and we can't do anything about them without cracking the skull open.

Not good enough to be practical. Not enough power output, not enough long term stability. Power cells are the only option for powering something like Neuralink - at least for now.

Not getting regulatory approval the first time around is a fairly usual thing. Especially for a new product in a fairly new field.

Turn that feature off. Cops can make you unlock it but they can't make you give them a password.

I have multiple scars and had a few broken bones. Body almost always can heal to some extent, but never fully and there's always some marks, inconveniences and imperfections. Can't imagine willingly wanting someone to rummage around in your head to implant some new half-assed tech into it and hope it almost works at best and doesn't make you a vegetable at worst.

Aren't there some experiments with using the body heat to produce power or something?

More like Lex Luthor fighting his equally evil brother

You wouldn't neccesarily have to take that kind of risk with a brain interface, its pretty easy to make a circuit that can output only so you control the computer with your thoughts but there's no return line so it still has to show the information back to you on a screen. A screen on you're eyeball if you want to be all fancy and integrated about it but a screen with no direct input to your brain beyond the usual visual means.

This is probably actually the prefered way to set up such a system because the actual implanted parts are pretty much just your peripherals meaning you can have the actual device be external which saves you a lot of unnecesary surgery every time computers get better.

Of course musk is the same guy who's proposing indentured servitude on mars so he's probably going down the mind control route if he can.

Meanwhile it's 2023 and my brand new $600 phone can't even reliably recognize my fingerprint lol

Yeah, I get the excitement there is for this tech, but it seems to me that even the slightest scrutiny reveals grave risks at practically every level from immediate health hazards to potential societal problems. I think there are some non-technological challenges that really ought to be addressed before we consider incorporating this kind of technology into our lives.

It’s also scary to think of a world in which this technology becomes necessary to be competitive. I hate to imagine what would happen if no company was willing to hire someone who can’t interact with a computer as quickly as they can think, yet some people still refused to use the technology for various reasons.

The neuralink subreddit is filled with guinea pigs, it's insane lol

The master control chip

They'll open a facility in some country with terrible regulations.

You wouldn't but kids born into a world where it is normal wouldn't think twice. Scary.

Sweet! Mars robot boxing. Judging by their space companies, I'll take Elon.

Bezos is likely lex luthor.

I think a backup Elon (or a fleet of them) is exactly why he’s doing this. That old idiom about a man and his wealth (“you can’t take it with you”) may be nearing its expiration date. Imagine Elon-droids still utilizing that fortune 200 years from now, on Mars, in space, fistfighting Bezos-bot, the possibilities are endless

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The good news is that this is neuralink we are talking about. With the amount of monkey brains they went through the most likely outcome is a painful death, not eternal enslavement to twitter.