Earlier this year, the US Food and Drug Administration gave Neuralink, which Musk cofounded in 2016, approval to launch human trials of its device that Musk has described as a “Fitbit in your skull.” The FDA had previously rejected Neuralink’s bid for human testing in March over safety concerns, Reuters reported, including that the wires connected to the brain chip could move within a subject’s head or that the chip could overheat.

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    1 year ago

    We already have what classifies as “cybernetic implants”: pacemakers, brain implants to combat parkinson’s disease, etc.

    We need medical technology to advance. What we don’t need is a bird brain (no offense to birds) touting a technology that will bring a solution for a problem that does not exist.