I just watched a deep dive on Neuralink’s latest upgrade, and it’s insane!. The tech now allows for direct skill/knowledge downloads into the brain—no more learning curves. But for some reason, mainstream media isn’t covering it. What’s the catch? Is it because it sounds like sci-fi, or are there ethical concerns we’re ignoring?
Direct skill/knowledge transfer to the brain.
We’re talking about:
- Instantly learning languages
- Mastering instruments without practice
- Uploading textbooks directly to your mind
Full analysis here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1NfA0Az7TU&t=633s
Would you implant this chip if it meant instantly mastering a language, instrument, or even coding or is this a trainwreck waiting to happen?"
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Just Made Skill Downloads a Reality – Why Isn’t This Everywhere?
byu/ImpressiveSnow4169 inFuturology
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Im gonna skip on letting evil oligarchs put things in my brain tbh man
Because it is bullshit. There’s at least forty more years of development before it’s even going to be able to do anything other than move a cursor on a screen.
Learning is not just ‘sticking wires into a brain and uploading data’. No. It’s developing neural patterns and memory/knowledge retention that *cannot* be done technologically at this point or at any point in the forseeable future because we simply do not know enough about the brain *and* everyone’s brain is different.
Most skills are also muscle memory. You can’t just ‘play an instrument’ after you ‘download a skill’, you have to learn the physical movements and associate them with the knowledge in your head.
As for uploading textbooks, well that would be nice, wouldn’t it? So how hot does your phone get when you’re using it for long periods of time, again? And now all those electronics are right there, dumping heat *into your brain* which is temperature sensitive. Doesn’t sound like such a good idea now, does it?
I like the concepts. I doubt it will happen in my lifetime.
When it is peer reviewed and open source I will consider it a possible technology, until then it sounds like advertising to raise stock prices before a call.
so he think he just zap some electrical signal and the brain instantly know to do stuff? yea I dont think the brain works this way.
This appears to be spam as in the video is AI generated and the OPs post seems to be AI generated too.
Are you trying to promote your fake YouTube channel? Yuck.
The video has a bunch of non-sensical sentences, making stuff up, no information shared (and especially no news about Neuralink). It seems it is all generated by AI, sentences and voices, short video sequences.
Theory of dead Internet is coming very fast.
Elon Musk, the same guy who said 10 years ago that we will be having full self-driving cars in 1-2 years, who said in 2017 that Tesla Roadster would be available in 2020. That guy?
I’m gonna go with “no” on this one, chief.
Bro wants to know kung fu.
If you’re that naive then buy, do I have something to sell you?
Because Elon has proven track record of making things up.
He just spouts things that is 10 years off or not even possible.
It’s mostly marketing.
This is certainly not a “I know Kung Fu” moment. Science moves incrementally and with rigorous peer review, revolutions in science are often only realized tens of years post factum.
No it did not make that a reality. It is not everywhere because it’s bullshit. Stop making propaganda for Musk
The ‘Full analysis’ is a pile of nonsense.
This is a ridiculous attempt to promote a channel with 14 subscribers.
I’d suggest to use this new revolutionary technology on yourself and instantly learn how to do properly what you are trying to do.
You respond to a robot and you take everything at face value. You remind me of an LLM. But I find the cooking recipe joke a bit lame. Afterwards I don’t know in what language you read my comment let’s say in English perhaps a lost touch of humor.