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Don’t Let Elon Musk Implant a Device in Your Skull (www.currentaffairs.org)

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The world’s richest man is obsessed with putting Neuralink chips in people’s brains and integrating their minds with AI. He can’t be trusted with this technology.

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[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Don’t Let Elon Musk Implant a Device in Your Skull

He can't be trusted

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

That said, I can understand the draw for people who have disabilities who would benefit from these tools. It could be life changing.

It's sad that society seems to rely on insane billionaires to move science forward over properly funded state healthcare and research.

The immediate result of this overdrive was roughly 1,500 dead animals, either killed directly by Neuralink’s experiments or euthanized afterward.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but "move fast and break things" is being taken very literally in Musk's companies, even when those things are living things.

We'd heard of the bypassing regulations too, like around pollution and planning when building AI server farms, and that's fully present here.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can understand the draw for people who have disabilities who would benefit from these tools. It could be life changing.

But we're talking about AI here. And AI simply isn't there yet, It should stay within the constraints of IT laboratories for at least another 10 years. But...

Musk is no longer content with healing the sick and injured. (edit: or helping the disabled)

Suddenly, we’re talking about a third-party brain implant with access to all of your thoughts and imagination.

We think that it's actually possible to (...) speak to the latest AI model, or LLM models, at the speed of thought

What Seo is describing here is a form of ChatGPT (or more accurately Grok, Musk’s anti-woke version) implanted directly in your brain. It’s hard to imagine a more pointless technology

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you kidding? It's super useful. How else will you correct unvoiced thoughts and punish those who think differently

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

There is an epidemic of wrongthink going around that's true.