It's unclear what caused the retraction or how many threads have become displaced.

The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant’s brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday.

It’s unclear what caused the threads to become “retracted” from the brain, how many have retracted, or if the displaced threads pose a safety risk. Neuralink, the brain-computer interface startup run by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Ars. The company said in its blog post that the problem began in late February, but it has since been able to compensate for the lost data to some extent by modifying its algorithm.

  • VirtualOdourEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Watching his videos he’s a clever snd self aware guy more than capable of thinking for himself. Hate Elon but you don’t need to shit on the disabled by acting like being in a wheelchair means you can’t think for yourself

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      You totally missed my point. I wasn’t shitting on the disabled fella at all. I was 100% shitting on the Neuralink chip, which is supposedly being developed and promoted as a way of fixing paralysis.

      The fact that the man is still in a wheelchair means that Neuralink has achieved 0% of it’s ultimate intended goal. It’s just a fancy mouse cursor (and probably keyboard) so far.

      • VirtualOdourEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Science isn’t magic, nothing gets invented in a single iteration. Don’t let your hate for a single person blind you to reality, allowing someone who can’t control a mouse to do so is breathtaking. it’s not the first time it’s happened but it’s a big step forward and once testing and improvement stages have been completed we’ll hopefully see more fluid links to other movement tools and technologies such as llms which will allow people totally dependent on help to live their own lives.