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What's this deal with Neuralink, Musk and Monkeys? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Unfortunately I have been living under a rock recently.

Can someone please ELI5 it for me ?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

From my limited knowledge of the matter:

Elon Musk wants Neuralink (his product/company) to become an actual product that people can buy someday
Testing has been done on monkeys and Elon wants human trials approved ASAP (might have already?)
Researchers from Neuralink have since come out against human testing apparently due to the horrible inhumane conditions that the monkey trials had on their test subjects.

Everyone feel free to correct me on anything or elaborate. I just thought that a not so good answer is better than none.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Iirc they didn't actually make any progress in the field of neuroscience and all the neuroscientist quit long ago because Musk rushed everything.

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