Monkey MindPong

Re:Monkey MindPong by PetitPrince on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:59AM (#26748595)

IIRC this is only experimental. The most reliable/interesting stuff are relying on ECoG (== put electrodes on the surface of the brain), and this means you have to perform a surgery.

For human applications, most of the time the researchers are using patients that requires several brains surgery (e.g severe epilepsy) so that they can do some sort of fly-by experiments (several surgery are needed so that they can also remove the electrodes).

I studied this at uni; my knowledge is probably not up to date.

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Re:Monkey MindPong by jonplackett on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:15AM (#26748674)

Thanks - so it seems like it's actually the ease-of-implant part that Neuralink is really doing most interesting development on then, rather than the actual abilities it gives (so far at least)

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Re:Monkey MindPong by ianai on Saturday April 10, 2021 @10:12AM (#26761604)

Out of my range here, but I bet they have a deeper and wider base to draw on for the AI interface with the brain than most other organizations through their CEO.

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