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Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Wilshire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 53 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Before anyone gets too excited: some of their electrodes are no longer able to record a signal from the patient's brain. They're reprogramming their software to work with fewer electrodes. No one is being turned into a borg drone.

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 100 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A software patch for a hardware failure.
Sounds like what they do at Tesla, too.

[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well it's also what NASA is doing. Only logical if you don't want to dig it out again.

[–] mynachmadarch@kbin.social 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean with the Voyager FDS? There's a big difference between patching a system 30+ years past it's planned mission date because at everyone's amazement it just keeps going and being valuable versus the Neuralink developing issues a few months after being installed when many expected it to fail because of the news of high failure rate among the primate test subjects beforehand.

[–] escaped_cruzader@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Well, rocket science is not brain surgery

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 33 points 6 months ago

I was thinking more a vegetable than a borg drone.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 33 points 6 months ago

That is still a pretty serious issue. It’s not something you should downplay

[–] mihies@kbin.social 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No one is being turned into a borg drone.

Yet.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 12 points 6 months ago

You, too, will be assimilated.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't know. Even if the outcome is just that the implant just stop working, with no other issue, it's looking pretty bad to me.

Since it required literal brain surgery just to be installed, which I assume is already a serious risk, it's not something you want to potentially be useless.

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The implant is already malfunctioning after a few months. Makes you wonder how many more of these threads will retract over the next following months.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All of them. The body doesn't want foreign materials inside it at any point. You can't just jam wires into your body and expect your immune system to not attack it. The organ interface problem as far as I know has never been solved.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

We jam stuff into our body for all sorts of medical things.

Some require rejection meds for life. Others don't.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Especially in less than 4 to 5 months. Damn thing was put in back in January and is already failing.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

No one is being turned into a borg drone.

Damn. I finally thought this would be the year :(

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

No one is being turned into a borg drone.

Yeah nobody is worried about this.