Can Neuralink Cure Blindness? Superhuman Vision? [Brain Implant vs. Retinal Implant]

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Neuralink is a brain implant designed to help paralyzed people walk and blind people see. Can a brain-machine interface restore vision? How does vision work in the brain? How do retinal implants and sensory substitution work, and what are Neuralink's biggest challenges?
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[@2OXX]

i aint putting nothing by elon musk in my brain. ur eye chip is gonna get a moving watermark unless you pay 8$ a month

[@morpheus_uat]

elon will buy it when the research is at 97% and claim that he invented and develope it, like all he own, paypal, tesla, etc

[@patrickalmquist4762]

Giving me high on life vibes when you get the suit.

[@morpheus_uat]

@@ConnorisseurYT shocking news, am i right? wait a minute, i wasnt talking to you, i was talking with Anonymous dude 3 months ago

[@ege8240]

​@@ConnorisseurYT elon straight up buys the title of being a founder. you can just search tesla and in the founder section it says his name, when that isnt the truth at all. it is beyond me that you pretend what we are talking about is a conspiracy when it is just public 😂

[@brianutley5636]

I guarantee you blind people would happily pay $8 a month. It's a very small price to pay to see again. My sister is fully blind and I'd pay that subscription if she opted in for the implant.

[@thewatcherinthefog4664]

if neuralink gets popular and cheap there's gonna be ads in your head

[@nooooooooot]

SORRY, BUT IN ORDER TO UNLOCK 5 MINUTES OF SLEEP, YOU NEED TO BUY PREMIUM, OR WATCH AN AD FOR FREE. YOUR FOOD WILL BE DIGESTED IN 24 HRS, UNLESS YOU BUY THE 20,000 BRAIN COIN PACK FOR $100, WHERE YOULL BE ABLE TO SPEND IT ON DIGESTION POINTS! it’s gonna be like a mobile game bruh 💀

[@cinemaphar]

Yeah no

[@mo_2212]

Ad blockers

[@dianalinares9037]

Ahahahah

[@ibowman_UCLA_BRAIN]

Another solid video, and I loved how you threw in the overhyped short-term -> under appreciated long-term graph into the presentation as a bonus.

[@daevastafford]

Yea, I actually didn't know about that till now. 🙇‍♀️ His videos are great!

[@SSMcTiny]

I love your videos, they are always filled with something new and interesting. keep up the good work!

[@roxaskinghearts]

The beauty of this tech is its fruit is automatically going to be bore by 2050 but hopefully elon can get it done by 2035 what does this mean alot first ghost in the shell is real be ready i want a shell ill even join the military for it and fight their wars for it next we will wirelessly do dream scape and memory espionage why elon sits where he does wish he was more a spokesmen for a family ideal then a individual child labor ideal we understand holding ourselves back why most men are not having kids till they are ready which mad props to all these kids gen z the richest gen dont grow up like these republicans would have you build a family and find why some familys are better then others love will keep us forever im the devil out of need because i cant control my hate so i let it control me but where their are devils on our chains here to ward off bad devils remember people god gave us a brain of a reason if he didnt want us to use them he wouldnt of given this puzzle to solve why is reality nasa has done what now science shows what now god will only show himself once you prove yourself right as people then quit holding us back let the science of man run the stars but lets not scare the world china wont let us even land on the moon

[@maxpowers802]

Keep the videos coming, my love

[@slasheffecttech]

great video as always

[@TrFusion]

I’m sure it’s possible, although there are some problems to solve. Aside from this, on some KZbin channels, there are videos of hearing-impaired or visually-impaired people hearing sound or seeing for the first time after they grew up by connecting a device to their nerve system. As soon as the machine is connected, they go like “I can hear!” or “I can see!”… That is not very realistic. They need to train their neurons to hear or see. Without that training, there are no brain regions to process the signal and they only hear or see terrible noises. And it is only possible to train neurons when they are much younger since unused neurons are cut back and disappear as we grow up.

[@Mitchell_is_smart._You2bs_dumb]

gosh, you're so smart. I'm in awe of how you figured out that nobody who had sight as a child could have possibly lost their vision

[@joricktevelde182]

No you can still train neurons later on, but it will be at a much slower pace. Neuroplasticity still happens through adult life,

[@TrFusion]

@@joricktevelde182 You didn’t clarify the process how you can train your brain, while unused neurons are cut back and gone as you grow up. Or that statement is what you just believe because you feel this way?

[@rogercastellanosfernandez3551]

these are really good, thx!

[@ACELORETEST]

Thank you for this video, keep up the good work

[@AgeofInnovation]

Awesome video!!!

[@rocklobster1976]

I cant help but wonder what neuralink has invested in banana smoothies. Do they sell them?

[@zahar1875]

My favourite channel ^_^

[@ihydf]

lol @ 3:00 "Neuralink is almost there" and 15 of 23 test monkeys dead...

[@ege8240]

i dont want to defend elon or his idiotic ideas but what you claim is wrong. you only need 1 surviving test subject to claim succeww. if 5 billion people died today but we got a successful functional bci, it would be a success. there are so many reasons for ts deaths also

[@honkhonk8009]

I mean thats still insane tho. like 20 years, there's a genuine chance.

[@lazarus8453]

4:56 " We tent do overestimate in short term but understimate in long term . " Realy good insight.

[@RevCode]

A really interesting topic and great video. Can't wait for the rat video :)

[@Giganfan2k1]

As a person with a visual impairment from a stoke... I don't know if I will get this corrected for a while. I am very happy I might have a choice in the matter soon!

[@EvelynNdenial]

they'll probably have methods of triggering plasticity and letting your brain rewire the damage before implants are ready to replace it. though i imagine plasticity will be critical in making these implants work in the first place.

[@Giganfan2k1]

@@EvelynNdenial Been watching neurology interfacing tech. Probably will be the implementation.

[@darkzeroprojects4245]

Ya might, but be warned. These big tech companies will do anything to get your pockets ,so they might swindle you or pull some weird crap with your fake eye. Blind excitement easily leads to more likely scandal so keep caution.

[@Thermoze_]

The main reason I will never get a brain implant is that, that shit's going to be outdated in less than 3 years and likely impossible to remove

[@thanaa]

🎉gj keep it up

[@secnep]

More videos pleaseeeee

[@PD-ws4td]

Imagine if we could use this for games and entertainment in the future. Full dive sao tech doesn’t sound too far off anymore.

[@cooldud7071]

My guess is that tech like this is being pushed to desensitize people to the concept of higher states of consciousness by integrating them first with technology and illusions of psychic powers, then the real deal is issued out.

[@TheLolzKnight]

A thought/point on that: yes and no? If we want to "Full dive" we'll need to 1. be able to paralyze our bodies at will 2. be able to "fake" touch and movements feelings 3. Be able to fake a whole bunch of super important senses like balance/movement/kinesthetics/whatever you want to call it. The feelings you get when you move! For still like touch or moving your muscles, an implant into your spine that reads the motor neuron impulses would probably let us read movement, block it, or even enforce it (automatic exercise, woot) pretty well. Just intercepting spinal signals (though installing something like that would be Super Future Robot Surgeon technology). For stuff like your sense of balance? That's via your inner ear. Meaning it probably goes deep into your brain. Smell? Taste? All complicated AND important in processes like memory formation Vision is our most complicated sense largely. But the others are neurologically super complicated too. Unless you can inject signals before the brain like in a spine, it will be very complicated. Fortunately full dive tech with only touch and just wearing a very good VR headset doesn't sound the worst. But modelling every sense would be extremely cool

[@PD-ws4td]

@@TheLolzKnight Yeah I’ve been thinking about it. It seems kind of out there, I know, you’d also have to create the game itself which is also a task in itself considering you’d need to replicate taste, smell, etc for each asset. I personally believe that the reasons we don’t see aliens (Fermi paradox) is because of expanding outwards, we expand inwards. Why spend millions of years exploring the real world when we can do the same in a simulation? Perhaps we will all be brains in a vat at some point exploring and living our own fantasy worlds.

[@TheLolzKnight]

@@PD-ws4td A not uncommon interpretation, and certainly not unrealistic for sapient organisms that lack the lifespan extension technology to travel interplanetary distances on a reasonable timescale (barring the invention of an FTL drive). Something I will note is that modelling a realistic universe like that, one where you have to simulate touch, smell, taste, vision, that would be incredibly complicated. Not impossible, considering the vast quantities of resources you could get from space, and the huge energies available from the sun. But the brain in a jar would demand a computer much larger and more heat intensive than it to simulate stuff like that The fact that in spite of all of that, still feasible? Crazy. And cool

[@PD-ws4td]

@@TheLolzKnight you only need to create a simulation realistic enough to fool the observer; everything doesn’t have to be rendered all at once. We are already doing a lot to optimize current simulations and games such as using machine learning and foveated rendering.

[@dustinherk8124]

bionic eyes have been a reality for over 20 years now, to "cure" blindness. Neuralink has nothing too do with the field's breakthroughs. all neuralink offers is a more compact, less cumbersome bionic integration.

[@ahmetmutlu348]

I think this is a correct payh for research in this field. I mean reverse engineering is not simple if you dont have stable data inputs and outputs of the target function..ie brain... we have eyes..input data is stsble... funtion is brain logic ...output is image or things representing or are referance to image or objects on image...still output data seems complex but can be tracked by controlling input data selectively and tracking data on function entrace or trackable areas..

[@whatisthis839]

The algorithm giveth, and the algorithm taketh away.

[@Mountain_bonker]

the mark

[@hdhsu-dg6fb]

i wish you uploaded more lel

[@ihmcurious]

Me too. Coming soon.

[@GerieConnElimRacines]

Hi good day.. I like to avail this project.. My father have glaucoma..plss help us

[@meganwyatt1607]

Please tell me I'm not the only one that poked the side of their eye😶‍🌫️

[@corvuscorone7179]

I am very concerned about brain ads. Want a break from the ads? Pay us 50$ so you can sleep.

[@daevastafford]

I'M SO HYPED, when is the human rat brain video coming out? 🤩 Bruh, when Elon Musk buys the human rat brain technology and the people who got neuralinks didn't know about this beforehand. So they got their neuralinks removed by dodge people when the "mind control extension" finally came out. 🤭

[@justind4615]

hey hey, you havent uploaded for a while will you upload in the future? (im replying to this channel in hope to get into notifications to the channel)

[@ihmcurious]

Yes, more is in the works!

[@justind4615]

@@ihmcurious I'm very glad! Can't wait for the next video.

[@hossenmohammadjulkernine9245]

Neuralink is an idea that came from matrix movie

[@ege8240]

no it isnt. it certainly isnt, anything you can comprehand about neuroengineering doesnt mean it is just matrix...

[@Kaasbaas045]

​@@ege8240you want to sound smart so bad, but in the process you make yourself look so stupid.

[@claudelebel49]

Any hope for someone with glaucoma?

[@skizecraft]

So this is about RESTORING vision. But what when we can GIVE vision to those that were born blind

[@khanmo3khanmo340]

It didn’t see but it was know that (Something Happened to Ask)

[@cinemaphar]

2:25 he said that fast 😂just to make sure of you do something stupid it’s not his fault

[@TVtheTV]

💙

[@liaqatgashti6442]

I wonder is it work for RP

[@Ensensu2]

Science's next big breakthrough, adblock for neuralink.

[@justind4615]

its like vr but on alot higher level

[@hackermanwannabe3031]

installed a new driver

[@mad5608]

With all these monkey trials... We're gonna have a Planet Of The Apes situation! Only joking. But awesome tech

[@MrMacchiato97]

Ngl alot of people are saying they are too afraid of getting brain hacked to use one of these but imo idgaf i could close my eyes at school and pull up brazzers? We on baby

[@bronyazaychik6384]

Pretty sure a lot of those neuralinked monkeys suffered a ton, mostly seizures and paralysis.

[@cooldud7071]

Neuralink is way too intrusive.

[@zahar1875]

Why to use term Neuralink tho when talking about BCIs? Neuralink is great that they popularized it, but they didn't bring much innovation honestly

[@ihmcurious]

People have heard of it, and they made an ambitious announcement. They've innovated on the hardware side and applied cool DARPA tech, but we'll have to wait and see if that leads to better devices.

[@honkhonk8009]

Its like Apple with the iphone. we say apple invented the iPhone, when all they did was bring it to the market. You cant say someone just invented something in the modern day. In reality, its the combined work of a shit ton of people.

[@cokecamilo]

Neuralink is a a huge smoke show - ask any biomedical engineer or neuroscientist

[@louielouie9502]

How much adrenaline or dopamine are they going to stimulate during which situation? Who's the editor? I don't speak for everyone. I've learned the lessons from the consequences of enforcing my own opinions on others. They're harsh and swift. So Beware. As for me, I'm tired of being a junkie for things that prevent me from being the best I was born to be. God help you if you entrust others to have control over your neurological functions. The tech won't be permitted for your Benefit without proper "education" Certifications" Admin control" Clearances" licensing" How about the threat of future imprisonment? What if they block your access to cognitive capability for a few years? You'd zone out and forget who you are while carring out "community services"

[@ifyouknowyouknow6964]

No ✋🏻 I don’t want a brave new world - thanx

[@darkzeroprojects4245]

Can it cure this or that.. Im sorry but i dont care if I got back problems, i dont trust this crap. And yet people blindly are excited for this stuff, not understanding no matter what you know, SOMETHING can always go wrong, you won't know it when its too late and not seen coming.

[@legendaryingaming8806]

The Method of "Tangible Material Implanting" is not nice as always. Couldn't there be something intangible and nicer and also have much more aesthetic value? This primitive method, I will never support it for consumer use.

[@exodi9420]

so this is how Jesus cured the blind?

[@Og_Phrank]

you need some expression, lowkey sound like a tts

[@u_cuban]

Big disagree. @Ihm Curious, please keep your videos neutral tone and high quality. Just the facts, no opinion or emotional hype.

[@at13c]

@@rodrigoetoobe2536 can you give an example of bias?

[@daevastafford]

@@u_cuban What?!? 😭✋ I like both. I wouldn't mind if he was a typical monotone scientist type or a persuasive, emotive researcher type. I think both are good! Both have their pros and cons, but they're still giving us valuable, fun information at the end of the day. I love his videos, and the fact that he's churning them out every once in a while is perfectly fine to me. Especially when we don't usually get content like this from other youtubers. Why should it matter if he's deadbeat or emotive? I don't see the point, we're here for the content. And either way, I don't see what either of you are seeing 💀

[@daevastafford]

@@at13c He can't, don't listen to him. 💀 He thinks disabled people shouldn't get help from neuralink and stuff and that they should focus on us "normies" 😭✋ I don't think he has any political bias, and infact this actually has nothing to do with him as a "scientist" nor this comment thread. 💀 I think this guy is just referring to his "legalise marijuana Joe Biden" video... I haven't watched, so I can't comment, but still from the information I've given you, it should have already nullified or completely obliterated any opinions of his. If he comments again, be my guest to own him 🤣✋

[@u_cuban]

@@daevastafford because the "content" is an **impartial** review of the news and science around a certain topic. Communicating with heavy use of emotion is a way bypassing critical thinking to convince others of an opinion, basically what advertising is. Jake's a gem to me because he respects his audience's ability to come form judgments on their own without emotional bias in his presentation.

[@gooseface2690]

Probably fake

[@ihmcurious]

You would say that

[@kalasatwater2224]

Taking too long

[@nightglide_]

Elon Musk boutta be MrBeast 2 💀

[@nates.8402]

#Perspectives

[@PD-ws4td]

Imagine if we could use this for games and entertainment in the future. Full dive sao tech doesn’t sound too far off anymore.