Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during interview

Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by ein0p on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @07:38PM (#39773340)

The inspiration for this (as well as for SpaceX) comes from the “Culture” series of novels by Iain M. Banks, which most people are apparently unfamiliar with. Specifically the BCI interface is called “neural lace” there and it grows along with the brain from a seed and covers its entire surface. There it serves as an interface to access superhuman AIs and information in general, on demand, and only the hopeless luddites choose not to have it

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Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by ShamelessC on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @07:45PM (#39773387)

Sorry but surely the idea of having a brain computer interface predates the Culture novels by many decades. Similarly, how are these books the inspiration for SpaceX? Those ideas of traveling the stars (well, planets) _absolutely_ predate the culture series.

Seems pretty obvious to me that these ideas originated long ago in the scientific world and were (beautifully) expanded upon by science fiction authors (again, many decades ago).

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Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by 0x64 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:03PM (#39773501)

The names of SpaceX’s drone ships, such as “Of Course I Still Love You”, are from the Culture novels

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Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by ShamelessC on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:03PM (#39773510)

Oh so grand parent was referring to the names?

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Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by ein0p on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:07PM (#39773537)

Not the idea itself, but this specific implementation. Musk has clearly read quite a bit of Banks and Heinlein.

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Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by ShamelessC on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:16PM (#39773608)

That’s fair I suppose but it’s probably giving more credit to Musk than he deserves. The real work is all being done by researchers who are drastically more knowledgeable about all of this than he is. He’s wise to invest in these sorts of ideas though and deserves credit for that.

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Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by ein0p on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:51PM (#39773818)

Yeah those researchers would be aimlessly rotting in academia if he didn’t fund risky, out there stuff like this. I can’t name anyone else among his peers who spends their wealth on anything even remotely civilizationally beneficial.

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Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by ShamelessC on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @10:36PM (#39774398)

Okay.

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Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by BriggyDwiggs42 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:10PM (#39783774)

>Would be rotting in academia

They’d be doing research man

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Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by ein0p on Friday March 22, 2024 @01:14AM (#39787654)

They _are_ doing research man, and they get help from the best engineers on the planet to turn that research into reality. That’s much better than poking mice brains and never getting anything done. Here they get EEs, roboticists, computer vision experts, neurosurgeons, you name it.

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Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by DoesntMatter22 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @09:13PM (#39773942)

I think he deserves an awful lot of credit for funding such a pie in th sky idea and giving those researches a chance to even attempt it.

In 1 month he's launched the largest rocket ever, done one of the first successful brain implants ever and released a pretty amazing version of FSD.

No other billionaires have done even 1 of those things. Even if he was a buffoon he deserves credit foe the audacity.

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Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by alexilliamson on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @11:34PM (#39774678)

I was sort of with you until the FSD

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Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by DoesntMatter22 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:42AM (#39775774)

The new FSD is fantastic. It's not perfect but 12.3 is a massive upgrade over 11.x. Very natural. The end is within sight, really.

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Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by ein0p on Friday March 22, 2024 @11:22PM (#39797145)

IDK. I tried previous versions others said were “fantastic” and it was a pants-shitting experience every time, so I quickly turned it off. Plus I had to hold onto the steering wheel the entire time. That’s not “self driving” IMO

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Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by DoesntMatter22 on Sunday March 24, 2024 @07:16AM (#39806446)

Version 12 is a quantum leap above version 11. It's not even comparable. V11 was just bad imo

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Re:Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during inter... by ein0p on Sunday March 24, 2024 @01:56PM (#39808887)

Maybe I’ll give it another try. Do you still have to keep your hands on the steering wheel?

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