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85% of Neuralink implant wires are already detached, says patient (www.popsci.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Espiritdescali to c/futurology

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[–] andyburke@fedia.io 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

An estimated 85-percent of Neuralink’s brain-computer interface (BCI) implant threads connected to the first human patient’s motor cortex are now completely detached and his brain has shifted inside his skull up to three times what the company expected, volunteer Noland Arbaugh told The Wall Street Journal on Monday.

You don't address this claim from the article. You just say they've compensated with software. The fact still seems to be, at least to me based on what I am reading, that the wires have detached and shifted from their intended locations regardless of what effects that has had.

[–] AIhasUse@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The guy with the chip in his head talks about this exact thing in the podcast I linked. He said that they did not detach, they just shifted locations. For a little while, his brain mouse was less responsive, but after the update, it is now better than it ever was. He said a lot more, but I don't remember everything. It was really interesting listening to him talk about it. It is nothing like how the article makes it sound. There are no little detached wires floating around inside his brain or anything.

I recommend listening to his interview, it is maybe halfway through the episode if you want to skip ahead. He is absolutely thrilled with the experience so far and said he was absolutely willing to go back in for surgery, but there was no need to.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Neuralink blog itself said they detached.

https://neuralink.com/blog/prime-study-progress-update-user-experience/

Neuralink boosted the ones that were still attached with the software update.

[–] AIhasUse@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If you saw that on their blog, then they must have changed their blog post because the word "detached" doesn't appear in the link tou shared, or in any of the blog posts on their website.

It would be understandable if they changed it, though, to clarify, because when people hear "detached," they are thinking that part of the device is free-floating in his brain, but that's not what happened. It is just that the electrodes on the device became lined up with slightly different neurons, but they were still receiving signals and were still attached to the central hub of the device.

Edit: typo