The Mundane Spectacle of the Three Little Pigs

“This Neuralink is implanted in the region of the brain that uh where where the snout the snout is located which is actually quite a large part of the pig ' s brain. ”1Elon Musk held a press event (product demo) to make grandiose claims about theNeuralink 1024 channel brain implant currently under development by his start-up.Three pigs were unveiled, all healthy and happy: Joyce (the one without an implant), Dorothy (who formerly had an implant), and Gertrude, the star of the day with her snout boops. The crowd applauded, impressed at this monumental accomplishment. However, recording spike trains from the brains of animals is as old as time. And actually,wirelessImplantable Neuroprosthetics in Pigs isso2011...2The title of this post in TNW said it best:I was excited for Neuralink. Then I watched Elon Musk ’s stupid demo“Here’s the one fact you need to know: Neuralink ' s actual device is less capable than similar medicalBCIs already on the market. The big claim to fame here is that Neuralink hopes one day to bring this technology to the masses. ”And really, invasive intracranial technology is likely to obsolete by the time the requisite advances in neural decoding would occur (if ever). As Kording Lab memberAri Benjamin toldBBC News:“Once they have the recordings, Neuralink will need to decode them and will someday hit the barrier that is our lack of basic understanding of how the brain works, no matter how many neurons they record from.Decoding goals and movem...
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