There is absolutely nothing connecting Neuralink and self driving cars except Musk himself. Different companies, different technology, different purposes…
What Neuralink is hoping to do would open up the world to folks whose interaction has been extremely limited by disease or injury.
@Concretionist: “There is absolutely nothing connecting Neuralink and self driving cars except Musk himself.”
And that connection is indeed something to be concerned about.
Musk has a habit of taking great ideas, hiring some of the best folks to develop them, then taking personal control and making grandiose attempts to extend them beyond their actual capabilities, ignoring the warnings of his experts… even firing those experts.
It’s happened with Tesla, especially “self driving mode”.
It’s happened with SpaceX, which is still doing a fine job of its near-Earth activities, but the attempt to colonize Mars has so far destroyed two of the most expensive rockets ever built, without achieving a single successful launch, much less escape from Earth’s gravity well.
It’s happened with Brand X, Musk’s tattered remake of Twitter. (Too many news reports for me to summarize here.)
And for those claiming that Neuralink’s true purpose is merely to help individuals who are lacking one or more functional limbs, please explain Musk’s grandiose claim that “some day” he will have himself implanted with a Neuralink. If he’s expecting to some day have a stroke which will leave him without control of a limb, Neuralink won’t fix that, since the problem will be in the part of the brain that generates the signals which Neuralink uses. But maybe he’s planning to extend it to cognitive “assistance”? (I get that impression from things he says.) That’s a different part of the brain, which functions very differently. If so, it will fail, if only because Musk himself will try to take personal control of development.
wirepunchr 4 months ago
Apparently a reboot is needed.
Concretionist 4 months ago
There is absolutely nothing connecting Neuralink and self driving cars except Musk himself. Different companies, different technology, different purposes…
What Neuralink is hoping to do would open up the world to folks whose interaction has been extremely limited by disease or injury.
Jack7528 4 months ago
Great, we will have freaks trying to program us!
FreyjaRN Premium Member 4 months ago
This can go so wrong. Ask any avid SF&F reader.
gammaguy 4 months ago
@Concretionist: “There is absolutely nothing connecting Neuralink and self driving cars except Musk himself.”
And that connection is indeed something to be concerned about.
Musk has a habit of taking great ideas, hiring some of the best folks to develop them, then taking personal control and making grandiose attempts to extend them beyond their actual capabilities, ignoring the warnings of his experts… even firing those experts.
It’s happened with Tesla, especially “self driving mode”.
It’s happened with SpaceX, which is still doing a fine job of its near-Earth activities, but the attempt to colonize Mars has so far destroyed two of the most expensive rockets ever built, without achieving a single successful launch, much less escape from Earth’s gravity well.
It’s happened with Brand X, Musk’s tattered remake of Twitter. (Too many news reports for me to summarize here.)
And for those claiming that Neuralink’s true purpose is merely to help individuals who are lacking one or more functional limbs, please explain Musk’s grandiose claim that “some day” he will have himself implanted with a Neuralink. If he’s expecting to some day have a stroke which will leave him without control of a limb, Neuralink won’t fix that, since the problem will be in the part of the brain that generates the signals which Neuralink uses. But maybe he’s planning to extend it to cognitive “assistance”? (I get that impression from things he says.) That’s a different part of the brain, which functions very differently. If so, it will fail, if only because Musk himself will try to take personal control of development.
IndyW 4 months ago
“West World”, where nothing can go wrong. Maybe, but let’s give it chance if it can help those who are impaired.