• topinambour_rex@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The actuators are quite surprising. They want to provide feedback to the brain, not just “listen” it’s waves, but “tell” it some too…

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      Musk claimed the same in the past but stopped when he found out people were affraid of that tech

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          Their brain interface will be mostly solidly designed with some rough edges, and 0.0003% of users will run into a bug that makes them constantly feel the vague smell of popcorn.

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        They’re working on providing sight with the implant and he says it’s working in monkeys so they’re clearly still working on sending info in