Brain Implant News: Neuralink Monkey Pong, BrainGate Goes Wireless, Handwriting, & Scooters

Big developments in brain implants, explained. A monkey plays pong, BrainGate patients type wirelessly, and a new method for faster writing.
Plus, monkeys eat marshmallows and drive scooters with their brains.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro (Brain Wars)
0:32 Neuralink Monkey Pong
1:54 Other Monkey Implants (Robot Arm & Scooter)
2:12 BrainGate Goes Wireless
3:25 Handwriting
3:49 Brain Wars Scorecard
4:36 Learning How the Brain Works
5:12 Consumer Brain Implants
5:31 Hype Wars
5:50 Braintopia
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Neuralink videos:
Monkey MindPong: • Monkey MindPong 2019
Neuralink launch: • Neuralink Launch Event
Neuralink update & pig demo: • Watch Elon Musk's ENTI...
Neuron animation: neuralink.com/science
Monkey eating with robot arm
Velliste et al., 2008, Supplementary Movies: www.nature.com/articles/natur...
Monkeys riding scooters
Rajangam et al., 2016, Supplementary Movie 1: www.nature.com/articles/srep2...
Woman with quadriplegia feeds herself - UPMC: • Woman with Quadriplegi...
Human playing Pong with Brain
GateMind Control: Introducing BrainGate - World Science Festival: • Mind Control: Introduc... Wireless
BrainGate used by tetraplegiac patients
Simeral et al., 2021, Supplemental Movies: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/...
BrainGate Grid Task
Pandarinath et al., 2017, Video 8: elifesciences.org/articles/18...
Decoding Handwriting
Willett et al., in press: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11...
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Ihm Curious makes videos about scientific topics at the bleeding edge of human sanity. Elliott is almost a doctor (not the kind that can help you). He researches and teaches psychology and neuroscience at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

Next thing we know they'll implant ads in our brains to make us buy even more plastic junk

[@ihmcurious]

Yep! But plastic is too expensive to make, when they can just sell you NFT furniture for your home in the metaverse. If it goes super dystopian, after a while they won't need ads, they'll just adjust what you pay attention to and how you feel about it...

[@bluemamba5317]

Damn you could get really big. Loved everything about the video: Relevant facts, nice visuals, no anoying music and the humor really comes across as genuine and natural. Keep going, two thumbs up!

[@kaorudragneel8498]

Good shit Elliott! You are scaring the hell out of me but it's so fascinating at the same time. Looking forward to more!

[@tristridun3243]

definitely some fascinating stuff! super awesome but also lowkey creepy in terms of how fast technology is changing the way we interact with the world. also, the brain implant stuff reminds me of the recently released videogame called Cyberpunk 2077 lol

[@danielpotter624]

I just stumbled upon this channel and am thoroughly impressed with how casually hilarious you are.

[@goncalooliveira4700]

I was here when this channel only had 10K subs. Excellent content

[@tastedalmond85]

This is awesome 👌🤙 also you made me laugh when talking about connection difficulties. 😄 thank you for the video sir.

[@wakomikro]

Dude, your voice is as smooth as butter.

[@deankelly193]

Thank you for linking the sources in the description! This is incredibly fascinating, I'm not fully in the loop but I thought a lot of this was much farther away than it is.

[@saitamapreetsingh3057]

Your videos are full of information and funny Mr. Elliot ! Keep it up !

[@VegasPerformer]

Having good info and throwing in some random humor makes a great video. 😄👏👏👏

[@rantceck4047]

this is like aperture science and black mesa except they don't burn houses with lemons.

[@ihmcurious]

When life gives you lemons, stimulate your sensory cortex so they taste like steak instead

[@adamrak7560]

they don't burn houses with lemons _yet_.

[@LouiesLog]

Cool but scary. Great videos :) keep going I can see you taking off

[@krzysiek6514]

Dude, thanks for your content

[@gemp246]

ur videos are so cool! keep it up , ihm :D

[@thesingularity2206]

Good vid Elliot!

[@maximilianmander2471]

top level content. Awesome!

[@LeChoisi101]

Violently underrated

[@filsdejeannoir1776]

0:14 Not jealous. Bit pissed that primates have to rescue man-made disasters though!

[@ryansmith4213]

My brain just watched video of brains

[@better_dead_than_red]

3:15 I can't AHAHAHAH

[@m_sedziwoj]

Biggest problem with BrainGate is infections, because is not under skin system. Which looks nice in test, but is useless outside of lab.

[@goseigentwitch3105]

This stuff is way bigger than people realize. A human has almost no RAM. Seriously, can you keep 10 numbers in your head and remember them? That's not even 1 kilobyte of RAM. If we hook a human brain up to 16 gigs of RAM, it's going to blow AI out of the water completely.

[@thebananababies4520]

okay, I got it now. You remind me of Christian Bale, hit character man from American Psycho

[@thebananababies4520]

but you dont seem like you'd stab a homeless dude so dont take taht the wrong way

[@mortyrickerson6322]

Lmao bro your humor is on point

[@zahar1875]

Ur cool, dude

[@_12k70]

Man, don't you hate when you try to pirate some new language packs for your brain and ends up with a virus and now you gotta go to customer support do a factory reset...wait what?

[@ilusions4]

6:00 This would've been cool maybe 10 yeard ago

[@johnsmith6132]

Shits getting more and more like black mirror with each year I’m just hoping without the twists

[@filsdejeannoir1776]

2:16 Ok. So isn't that the 'plug in' scenario potential I was asking about in the last video for interfacing with AI? Shouldn't wired fibre optic interface come first? 2:23 Yes. That's exactly what the AI interface needs. 5:26 So who's developing the combat AI research? Because this can't be hanging around for the medical consumerism surely? So is that the military? Who's building a strategy? Where's Morpheus when we need him?! I must be thinking all this back to front. Clearly they've already interfaced humans with AI; otherwise it wouldn't be so strong. 6:09 Well the whole grid is 'the real world' to a large extent if you're worried about the future.

[@brianj7204]

Neuralink is the superior product in my opinion. Elon sure knows how to get shit done. I bet we'll be seeing early results in humans in 2022.

[@thestonesstone2581]

I’m scared

[@filsdejeannoir1776]

0:58 Yes. Elon's a bit super honest. Thank God! Would know nothing about the disaster if it wasn't for him! Anyway. Never mind about the child president. 1:03 Oops. He let the cat out of the bag with the monkey! All I need now is for him to let the American GIs out of the bag!

[@tuckersabath2099]

Intrusive thoughts anyone?

[@QUANTUMTALKBEE]

NUI: Neurological User Interface, I call it, not telepathy. It's a type of phone radio broadcast effecting the auditory, optical and all other senses. I already have input from it whether I like it or not. Me and Mr Elon Musk. We know, and I am guessing you will know too, any minute now: Hello. Respond like your on a phone because the FCC regulates all radio wave transmissions, and basically you are on the phone. So, just follow the phone and broadcast rules. Don't plan your bank heist or cult suicide pack and think your not being surveilled, because you are. It's a radio wave communication. It is public no matter how you look or think bout it. Just say hello. Goodbye, -wendy

[@miffclick3358]

Lets make humans into mindless drones without them realizing!