Which means ads can also be streamed. Heck no.
Can neuralink give you cravings for specific foods and beverages (Coke) without even bothering with any media?
I can already stream music into my head, and all without invasive surgery. What an innovation.
Next thing you’ll tell me they’ll be selling monthly subscriptions to use those trains.
Me too, but not everyone can actually. Still doesn’t mean this is worthwhile. Look up anauralia (the sound version of aphantasia, which is a lack of mind’s eye visually).
(sorry to anyone who discovers they have it from this comment)
Where the fuck are all the “Mark of the beast” people, am I living in crazy time? Fuck I’m living in crazy time…
I do audiology research and can tell you right now, short of a cochlear implant -no we can’t. And we are easily about two decades away from anything close. And even then, a CI can’t make music sound as good as your ears. There is no ‘one’ place in the brain you can imput music into. The most dense and easiest place to input the music is in the cochlea, like a cochlear implant does. Every place up the chain then branches out to thousands of connections and makes it harder and harder. And every step higher up that you try to interface into means you are skipping the initial signal generator and lose out on all the needed fidelity. The next step above a CI is an ABI, auditory brainstem inplant. And they sound so bad, just going one stop up from the cochlea, that those users barely can understand speech and only in the best settings. And normally after about a year of auditory therapy with it. Realistically we tell people (the handfull a year who will end up with one) that they should expect to get sound awareness, and that’s it, from their ABI. And now Elon talks about wanting to go another half dozen steps up from that and magically have the fidelity to make it sound like music?? GTFO. This guy is a moron and doesn’t know what he is talking about.
Plus, it’s really not worth the problems associated with brain chips. Even the Neuralink Human Test subjects ran into the same problem we’ve faced for decades: the connecting tissue dies. It might work for a few months and then people are going to need ANOTHER brain surgery to either remove it or fix it, if it even works multiple times to begin with.
I wonder who they’re going to name the disease after when repeated Nueralink failures cause irreparable lifelong disease.
I wouldn’t trust anyone to put this device in my head, but Musk is the absolute last person I would trust. Look at what he did to twitter and now imagine he has direct access to your brain.
