Musk’s Neuralink company hopes to implant a computer in a human brain in six months.
Musk has said he wanted to do tests in people in 2022, but he is also completely lousy at deadlines.
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Scary and interesting, but 6 months? We'll see if that's not another of those games that will be delayed again.
I've worked on the design of an optical nerve stimulating device a few years ago. I understand why the FDA wants to regulate that; to give an idea, one of the challenging problems we faced was to make sure the sum of the current injected by the probes was always zero (within some tolerance), or it would deteriorate the cells. And it's not easy to control leakage currents in low-power devices, not even mentioning potential software bugs...
This is way beyond optical nerves though. It seems to be mostly about sampling signals for now and not injecting them, I suppose that's the ultimate goal. I'm not sure I would easily trust someone knowing a little of what could go wrong.