Betcha he took a shower and forgot to put it in shower mode.
DO NOT WASH YOUR BRAIN IN DIRECT SUNLIGHT
Of fuck, you just reminded me of that commercial. HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD! HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
Thanks Obama!
The company said in its blog post that the problem began in late February, but it has since been able to compensate for the lost data to some extent by modifying its algorithm.
Because that's what people are worried about: THE LOST DATA.
Can you imagine the marketing value?
The blog is obviously targeted towards advertisers. The future looks amazing and full of possibilities. Just think about how your 8 hours of sleep alone could be turned into product placement opportunities for nestle.
Futurama tried to warn us.
When a computer reads some signal, the 0s and 1s in it's memory is the data. The data must be processed so that the computer can understand it.
This computer is using threads to read neuron activity. It must necessarily receive data because if it didn't it wouldn't be reading neuron activity. They're the same thing.
This data is processed so that the computer can make sense of the brain. Once it understands some activity it generates signals that can control external devices.
Here's an example. Imagine a device that monitors the heart and does something to fix a problem. The device would get data on the heart and process the data so that it can perform it's function.
Wouldn't monitoring health concerns and mitigating data loss be extremely important in these scenarios?
The point is that this is the opening paragraph about something going wrong in human brain surgery, and the first thing they tell us is "don't worry, the data's fine", rather than anything about the human. Indeed, you have to read to the last paragraph to find:
Arbaugh's safety does not appear to be negatively impacted.
and the first thing they tell us is “don’t worry, the data’s fine”, rather than anything about the human.
I do agree it would have been significantly more considerate to mention that the person is ok first, but I feel like you're confusing data storage (ie something they're collecting) with data processing (ie how the device operates). The data in question is the latter. In other words, they are explaining that the problems are being accounted for so that the device can still function in the human it's attached to.
No, I understood that, I did read the article. I'm lambasting the fact that in an article about "brain chip gone wrong", burying the "but human seems to be unharmed" at the end of an article is indicative of a set of priorities wildly different from my own.
TY! My first thought was he was this poor sweet guy who just wanted to play Civ and fell for this grifter
Have they tried firing most of the neurons, keeping only the most hardcore?
I can't believe anyone willingly got this after the monkey testing thing. They have to be taking advantage of people not fit to make decisions for themselves.
The patient became quadriplegia in a car accident, I wouldn't call it unfit for decisions but definitely someone desperate to find a sense of normalcy.
Guy has nothing left to lose really, I don’t blame him for taking this risk considering I would strongly consider it myself were I in his situation
Yes, unfortunately this is the case. In an article I read the guy was able to pay chess and Age of Empires with his thoughts and the chip, quite impressive tech indeed, it’s just that you absolutely cannot trust anything near Musk
OCZ back in the day (2008) had a brainwave game controller... didn't need surgery for that.
Not many options I guess. Sucks to have to gamble on the crazy billionaire with a lot of faulty shit.
I can believe people took up on this offer. As the saying goes drowning man will reach for straws. Issue is they probably oversold reliability and safety.
I don't know which company I would trust developing my brain implant, but it sure as hell isn't Tesla. Their software and hardware history is less than stellar.
It's ok, there's still other companies to choose from. Twitter can develop your brain implant instead!
I mean it's too early to trust anyone with this new technology
Oh god I was worried they killed him horribly this is actually probably fine and almost an expected setback.
What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?
The same thing we do every night Pinky.
Well, that'll happen if you don't take your Neuropozyne. Their test subject should have budgeted for that before getting augmented.
No one could have predicted this totally predictable situation.
Honestly surprised he didn't just run into a wall
"Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage..."
If only someone could have predicted
Well... that's probably the most expected thing to ever be expected. It was never a matter of 'if', it was a matter of when.
Just another rapid disassembly, nothing to see here..
How is this shit legal? Like, why is any company allowed to willy nilly fuck around with trying to implant computer chips into human brains?
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