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85% of Neuralink implant wires are already detached, says patient (www.popsci.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Espiritdescali@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today

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[–] AIhasUse@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Noland, himself, just said on the HardFork podcast 2 days ago that they are not detached. They shifted, and after a software upgrade and no follow-up surgery, they are working better than ever. There was a short period of time between when they shifted and the new software update that he had reduced control of his mouse.

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This is such a garbage journalist. They say that Noland said they detached in a WSJ article, and then they link an article that says nothing about this. I don't know if this is the same Popular Science that used to put out good journalism, but if so, then they really dropped the ball with joirnalist. I get that Elon has done some shitty stuff, but it does nobody any good to just blatantly lie about this. It is easily checked. Think twice before posting stuff from Popular Science.

OP, for the sake of the reputation of this community, you may want to adjust the post title with a misleading warning or something.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The article says, "Arbaugh said that Neuralink has told him around 15% of the threads inserted in his brain remain in place." Then says that they did software updates to strengthen the remainder.

Neuralink themselves used the word "~~detached~~" "retracted" in their blog.

edit: The blog does not say detached

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In the weeks following the surgery, a number of threads retracted from the brain, resulting in a net decrease in the number of effective electrodes.

I didn’t see “detached” in the Neuralink blog post? I don’t know what retracted means in this context, but it could very well mean detached.

[–] AIhasUse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's not actually in their blog, at least not anymore. The patient explains what happened in the podcast interview I posted. The wires have electrodes on them that were lined up with neurons, his brain shifted more than expected, and so the electrodes became in contact with new neurons. They changed the code, and now the device is more accurate than it was originally. There are no free-floating wires detached inside the patients brain.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know what happened there. My brain did a thing with that word I guess? Sorry

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