Musk’s bid to start Neuralink human trials denied by FDA in 2022, report says
The denials themselves are legally confidential to protect investor interests, but I have very little doubt this is true. In their last presentation, it was a total engineering clusterfuck with the head engineer’s biggest insight being that “the brain is squishy”.
Elon was doing way too fucking much answering of questions about technical shit that he clearly didn’t really understand. Even worse, they actually had a guy on stage pitching the idea of shocking the visual cortexes to induce “vision” out of phosphenes.
IMO, I don’t see implantable BCIs ever really taking off (regardless of modality), as the underlying metabolic manipulations that these BCIs impart or record can be done through non-invasive measures, in a much safer fashion. If we look at the efficacy tails on the current best case BCIs for things like movement disorders/Parkinsons, the fall off is definitely not worth the risk.
Or maybe it is for people experiencing it, that five years might be worth anything. However the risks still prevent them from being pervasive, especially with the long term degradation implantables experience.