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The Neuralink president said that the first human trials are aimed for 2020, but before that he said that they use their thread arrays to record neural data every day, and he described the experience of learning how to manipulate the iphone app as "trippy".

So has this thing been implanted in even a single human? Or are his words just conjecture? If not, what brains are they reading neural data from, animals?

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Elon: "the monkey has been able to control a computer with its brain" after a question about testing on animals and the ethics involved

...and if this all really works, the ethics of uplifting animals. If monkeys and cows, etc, can become intelligent via digital augmentation, it will seem pretty grotesque to eat meat. I’m not a vegetarian, but that thought has me reconsidering. Even if we’re a century or two away from that, it will be nice to not be remembered as monstrously eating other potentially-intelligent beings.

It's very likely it's in humans now, and watching the live stream it looks like they are working on a brain.

This technique has been used on rats for at least a decade now, and I believe it's already been tested on humans prior to this.

They specifically say they build on the concepts from the Utah arrays, but that their tech is much better (presumably "trippy" references were from lower res external monitors or feedback from the brain array?)

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