How Neuralink Will Cure Blindness

How Neuralink technology can restore eye sight to the blind
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[@NR-rv8rz]

To a blind person, any level of pixilated vision, no matter how low, would be a great blessing.

[@NR-rv8rz]

@@rootofsignificance9575 Blind people would take that risk.

[@windigo000]

you're not blind, are you? 🤦 is a hole in the skull also beneficial to a blind person? you're an e-dyot 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@aidanclarke6106]

Vision does not work like that, but only true scientists know that.

[@GTKJNow]

My blind friend of over 30 years just wishes he could see light again, when he was young he thought the Moon was a flashlight at nite; now he can't see light anymore since his 20s.

[@NR-rv8rz]

@@GTKJNow I believe things will advance very quickly with Neurolink. If he can hold on for five years he will get some sight back.

[@enp0s3]

can't wait to get an unskippable ad while watching life

[@TRAVIESO_NA]

It will just be implanted into your subconscious

[@harrygroundwater2590]

😂😂😂

[@GSN-p8c]

Need subscription to remove the ad😂

[@piggydabest]

Hell nah gettin adblockers on dat thing asap lmao

[@insanofranklin]

get KZbin premium, dawg

[@lelethufutshane772]

The phrase "I caught him in 4k" is gonna take a new level by then😅

[@micahh016]

I have a condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa or “RP”. My vision will slowly decay from the outside-in with no cure or treatment, and no way to tell when or how fast my vision will decline. Some have their vision in tact in their 50s, others lose it entirely in their 20s. This video gave me so much hope that there could be a way to fix this in my lifetime. My vision is still in tact now and thank you for sharing these discoveries. I really hope someday this can cure myself and others like me and all types of blindness.

[@bengardener8928]

Gene editing reverses the condition in mice too.

[@bengardener8928]

That's something you could potentially do right now, but too expensive likely.

[@Pisti846]

I bet the first uses of this will be where eye itself is damaged but the optic nerve is still good.

[@Samera-uf8fg]

Sorry, but he's not a medical dr He's a failed space X dude whose rockets blow up and he has an exaggeration problem and huge ego 😂

[@Samera-uf8fg]

In short? His own camp says he doesn't live in reality 😂😂😂

[@Samera-uf8fg]

Annnnd! Let's not us forget that he has a Messiah complex and the need to win no matter the cost and called brilliant by his fans so he's aligned himself with bunker boy a Hitler wanna be

[@Samera-uf8fg]

Friend to humanity I think NOT

[@rikuleinonen]

@@Samera-uf8fg Elon is just a public figure. His engineers, though? They're paid workers. Not to say Elon won't make it all worse, lol.

[@FromTheRose99]

Looks like some might have Kiroshi optics at some point 😂 Neuralink surgeons will be the first ripperdocs 😆🔥👁

[@jtjames79]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.

[@Droppy01]

​@@jtjames79rust bro... rust

[@Daniel-im6ox]

@@jtjames79ok adam smasher

[@mattp8466]

David moment

[@degeneratewilson]

@@jtjames79 mechanicus moment

[@skimura193]

I am a patient with retinitis pigmentosa in Japan. The prospect of losing my vision is extremely frightening. Advances like this provide much-needed support. I sincerely hope that they come to fruition. Many patients are eagerly awaiting them. I believe that the joy of patients will have many positive effects. Please, I humbly ask for your efforts. If you need any adjustments, let me know!

[@user-uj9cc5ch5p]

I am all in on Neuralinks efforts to help the disable. It's groundbreaking and revolutionary.

[@arcticablue]

It isn't really about helping the disabled. Use your thinking cap. This is just what they are telling you so you will buy into this. It is about ultimate control of human beings.

[@Whatdadogdoing-ph3ev]

@@arcticablue It's an eye 💀💀 These people trying to stop groundbreaking technology because of "worries" which started out as jokes

[@infinitedeath1384]

​@@arcticablueI think you're using your head a little too much. Maybe stop huffing spray paint and get a psych evaluation.

[@GTKJNow]

@@arcticablue I heard they are going to put a camera in the eye and connect to the brain somehow.

[@cool-lukajf]

I've been wanting cameras in my eyes to record things that happened so bad bro, funny moments or when I'm in an argument and someone is lying so I can look back and upload a video and have proof

[@greenmachine5487]

Like in that Black Mirror episode

[@iceblock4426]

I REALLY don't think you want something constantly recording your entire life 24/7, 0 privacy

[@AkaiAzul]

Didn't we have Google Lens or something?

[@iceblock4426]

@@AkaiAzul Yeah, but one, it failed as an idea, probably for privacy reasons and you look like an idiot wearing it, and two, you could always just take the glasses off, with a bionic eye you couldn't just take it out, itd constantly be on, so if you wanna see, you gotta show everything you ever see to whoevers taking that data.

[@cool-lukajf]

@@iceblock4426 i have nothing to hide

[@thecaribbean8615]

Don't forget that multiple spectrum's will be able to be used. Visible light is great. But, infrared/thermal augmentation would be outstanding! Now. Let's go even further where someone could connect their visual cortex to a virtual reality system or to a MRI or an X-Ray machine output or even a small pill type robot with a camera that someone can swallow to give the doctor a view of someones insides! Can you visualize kids of the future texting each other in class without any visible or external devices.

[@syntaxed2]

I still have more hair on my balls than my head - When they gonna fix that?!

[@MrJacksspleen]

Apparently that's why they're pushing "manscaping."

[@mrnobody4869]

😢man, i am 16 and i am balding

[@SABATABATADZE-g4w]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@DragonOfTheMortalKombat]

​@@mrnobody4869 hey it's not so bad, build some muscles, learn some eyebrow raises and you'll become the rock.

[@TelaGamer]

*vine boom​@@DragonOfTheMortalKombat

[@TheAIKnowledgeHub]

Just a heads up Neuralink isn't the first to do anything like this. The current stuff, the person can tell basic shapes (square, triangle, etc.) The problem comes in, hooking it up to the brain. Like the limit is based on a hardware limit and to be honest a lack of understanding of the brain. Hardware because it requires you to work in a very very very small area. Like a lot of what he talked about in this video. This is old info with neuralink slap on it. There was some successful test back in early 2000s. The problem was cost + use + safety. No insurance is going to pay for it. And then even those who can afford it, it isn't useful enough. And then there is the safety part with the brain. Personally I think maybe we will figure this out. But I think we won't get something like the normal human eye until we get nanobots. And I think when we get nanobots we can cure things depression, autism (I'm autistic and many of us wish there was a cure), and other issues.

[@Samera-uf8fg]

Plus it causes damage to the brain and the implant is useless in the end When ego is involved alot of the time nothing ever works because it's exaggerated lies to start with😢 and he's the king of the liars club

[@ZeyphodZeyphod]

What about the folks working on growing whole organs from our own Adult stem cells? If they can succeed in growing hearts/kidneys/lungs/pancreas/liver at some point replacing the whole eye might be feasible.

[@TheAIKnowledgeHub]

@@ZeyphodZeyphod the problem with the eye is there is a bit more to it than most think. Like if it was as straight forward as you indicate. Look up how many successful eye transplants they are where the person can see. The answer is 0. In fact, many cases you have a working eye but the between doesn't work. The optic nerve can't be reattached if it's cut. This is purely the reason why. We just don't know how to get it to connect. We don't know how to transplant an optic nerve. Assuming the chip thing would work. You can bypass it by using a bionic eye. But as mention prior, the space is too small with modern tech. Because the space is so small you likely would have to use nano bots. And if you are going to do that, then you likely can use the same nano bots to repair the damage area or maybe build a bionic eye and hook it up. Basically the implant would be archaic technology if we had that. Note I'm not saying we shouldn't research it. But let's be honest with ourselves

[@infinitedeath1384]

I don't think you can cure Autism, and there already is a cure for depression. With autism our brains are structured differently compared to neurotypical people. If nanobots could change that, then you'd likely become a different person. That could change your whole personality, and it's definitely not something I would want. Nanobots could be an easier cure for depression than what we have now, but I don't see a viable option for curing Autism without a bad side effect, like a personality change. I wouldn't want my brain structure altered, even though I've also got autism.

[@viniciusschadeck4992]

I'am a diabetic person with 25+ years of type one, even trying my best to control it well, this terrible health issue turn me into a broken bank account, and a vision issue that may become blindness. I hope this for the people is already blind, and for anyone that need better vision in general that this tech become available and i hope not much expensive, maybe the procedure to implant, but camera is kinda cheap, wireless or even wired connection is cheap as well, soo i the major issue i have here is copyright and medical costs

[@maxidaho]

Phosphene? there is no "oto" in this word.

[@yakwabbit]

Damn you autocorrect! 😂

[@squeekywheel]

Maybe if you had Neuralink, you could see the letters that aren't there!

[@silkytp789]

Right on brother

[@BBBrasil]

@@squeekywheel 🤣🤣

[@LB-qr7nv]

I think it seeing upside down will not be a problem. If I remember correctly there was an experiment where people saw some weeks upside down (maybe with special glases) and after some time their orientation flipped so they could see everything as if it was normal

[@Outofthisworldclips]

I really hope they are able to figure all this out soon everyone deserves to have the gift of sight 🙏

[@CIementine_]

Imagine seeing ad popups with eyes closed mid sleep after a long day of work💀😭

[@helmetfire5973]

2:50 most magical eye rub ever

[@JellySword8]

Wonder how the color perception works, could we perceive entirely new colors?

[@KEZAMINE]

Could detect infrared or UV? Life has no boundaries

[@Samera-uf8fg]

@@JellySword8 all this is just one of his exaggerations. He's meddling in areas that he has no right to he's what the Bible warned us of false prophet and has a huge God complex

[@micahh016]

​@@Samera-uf8fg Rightt, we have no right trying our best to advance and someday to restore vision to the blind and visually disable who can't experience life 🤦‍♂

[@420Tecknique]

​@@micahh016I don't know you but we are friends now

[@rikuleinonen]

@@Samera-uf8fg Elon is just a public figure (and billionaire), he doesn't have our interests in mind. This is the same guy who asked to put subscriptions in cars to use the engine properly. Yes, seriously. Teslas lock the full power of the engine behind a subscription. Same goes for stuff like seat heating and adaptive high beams. This guy WILL put subscriptions in your cranium. As for the biblical aspect? Total hogwash. If we had a competent, well meaning figurehead this would be great for us all. Except we don't. We have an egomaniac born into wealth. What a world we live in.

[@marquezdavis8550]

Elon musk out here trying to create cyborg

[@quos3683]

while pretending the tech is for the good of humanity lmao

[@MrNote-lz7lh]

​@@quos3683 You are a garbage human being. Healing the blind and the lame are great endeavors.

[@MrNote-lz7lh]

​@@quos3683 Why are you so against healing the paralyzed and the blind?

[@D.Eldon_]

_@The Tesla Space_ -- Interesting video but there are a couple of big errors. First, at 0:52 you say photons are *particles.* This is not true. Particles are matter and they have mass. *Photons are energy.* Second, at 2:36 you display the correct word *"phosphene"* but you incorrectly pronounce it as *"photosphene",* which, as far as I'm aware, is not a word.

[@Killianstodghill]

Becoming more machine than man is a dream come true.

[@vincenthall7950]

There's nothing you have to figure out with a brain's perceptions. That's its job. Give a brain input and time and it will figure out what it's supposed to be doing with the input. Famously if you put glasses on a person that flips the images their eyes receive it takes 3 days for the brain to work out how to right the image. It then takes another 3 days to readjust after you take the glasses off. Sensory evolution wouldn't work if the brain didn't have general solutions to the input problem.

[@user-pi4cr1fh9j]

The new and improved eye! Now with 100% more ads

[@Elect.tronyc]

thanks you so much, please keeep doing more videos

[@lourdessilva6442]

Sem palavras isso não tem preço esse está revolucionando o mundo e será nosso próximo líder mundial

[@rje4242]

only one arm, two legs, and an orange tracksuit to go.

[@inisipisTV]

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him...

[@kentreed2011]

Can't wait to have to pay a subscription to be able to see.

[@alexandergreen5292]

Year vision plan: *ends* Person driving: 🌚

[@MrNote-lz7lh]

If you're not blind you have nothing to worry about. And if you are, would you really be against paying a fee to see?

[@myeverythingworld8123]

Im blind in one eye due to ocular melanoma this gives us hope thankyou

[@graemedunn5824]

It's not true that the right hemisphere recieves images from the left eye and vice-versa. The right hemisphere recieves the left visual fields from both eyes and the left hemisphere recieves the right visual fields from both eyes.

[@CarlosBenjamin]

That is counter to what I’ve been taught and there is no mechanism to split vision in each eye. Please explain.

[@graemedunn5824]

@@CarlosBenjamin The optic nerves from each eye converge at the optic chiasma, where nerve fibres from the same side of each retina are sorted together before continuing on to the visual cortex. Each conical hemisphere, thus only receives nerve signals from one side of each retina and hence only the left or right visual field.

[@graemedunn5824]

Sorry for the typo: "conical" should have been "cortical".

[@CarlosBenjamin]

@@graemedunn5824 Do you have a reference? This seems to contradict the notion of binocular vision.

[@JaniceCarter-ws7lu]

Neuralink will cure blindness and help people walk again.. God bless you Elon❤️ I'm looking forward to seeing this

[@RandalNichols-li1pd]

Night visions without a headset have it run thru your phone that has Military Eyes Only but very cool. Good show 👍

[@blast_processing6577]

Note that in _some_ cases there are neurological limits to what can be achieved with vision restoration, due to the brain _repurposing_ certain regions normally used to process visual information, and which don't "revert" their function once vision is restored. This phenomena most likely limits how much vision can be "upgraded" in unimpaired individuals as well.

[@fear8220]

So Tesla is trying to make a Kiroshi?

[@MSA]

Since they are already implanting something in the most delicate part of your body (brain) it wouldnt be the weirdest to implant a camera in your eyes so you can avoid go pros or glasses. Its crazy how technology is moving forward

[@mvpmikey]

*_Will the Eyes include Ad-block if you have Tesla Subscription?_*

[@MaoRatto]

Now that is concerning.

[@sorakchan]

Huh cant wait to get my new top of the line Kiroshi Impant preem shit

[@iNINJAgamer]

3:55 are those Apple Watch ⌚️ chargers? 😅

[@MortenSlottHansen]

Next level of VR ...

[@brianjanssens8020]

You don't appreciate how good something was until it is gone, and after that all you wish for is to return to the time when it was still there.

[@foxthroat3410]

The moment they make that bionic eyesight it would start vulnerabilities for sure, because now it's sending back something to the brain rather than just detecting impulses through the neurons.

[@cjperry2731]

We really are headed for a Cyberpunk type future lol 👍

[@Bill_17]

I had a plan to Research on Curing Blindness like they do later in my studies, but I see Neuralink is already on it.👍

[@Samera-uf8fg]

@@Bill_17 it's a joke and a lie from a guy with Misshia complex

[@Iddjeh]

I want 360°eyes 😂

[@theLeslieRayment]

Great work! This is an exciting crazy scary development in medical science. Soon we'll be asking the matrix to upload helicopter specs. Hey great images and vids. Can I ask what you are using to find these? Thank you in advance!!

[@Aetheris-s2y]

This is insane 😮

[@Samera-uf8fg]

Can we say,F tard

[@Samera-uf8fg]

Worse..it gives false hopes because he exaggerates

[@justinanderson267]

Weird... okay so when I turn my head 90 degrees to the left and look at a rectangle.. my TV on the wall... Normally, the top is still the top. But with this vision thing, if I tilt my head to the left then the left side of my TV will be the top. So instead of feeling like my head is tilting to the left, it will feel like my vision rotates 90 degrees counter clockwise. So turning upside down would be a lot like looking at a photograph upside down. The floor would be at the top of my vision. Our brains do a lot of work! That's so strange to think about...

[@richardcarey169]

Gives new meaning to the term " Brown Eye " 😂

[@liveonthesun3368]

Thanks. I was worried I'd be disappointed and that you'd be hyping about it like people would be able to see like normal. But you Didn't have to and you still made it interesting. Kudos to you 😁

[@mehmetgalatasaray6240]

Does wearing lenses damage the Neuralink chip ??

[@dalmolima8862]

Bravo Elon! You are THE GUY! Just by trying you earn all respect of all world. Congratulations!

[@user-ei5ll9pl7p]

Hello random person on the internet 👋

[@danielcomeau9880]

Hey. We're not supposed to talk to strangers. Wanna be friends?

[@marksnarbuts8393]

Haiiii

[@SebastianWellsTL]

Remarkable!

[@_klee7469]

more power to these companies looking for a "cure" for blindness

[@medix1203]

As long as theres not a robotic arm controlled with Bluetooth.... Pissing or.... Self stimulation will be a very VERY dangerous game

[@nulldot0]

Can't wait for x ray vision

[@tiemenvanderbijl785]

I'm not a native english speaker so please help me out here. is photosphene (what the are saying in the clip) not something different then phosphene (what they show is the writen word they are trying to explain). is this a mix up or is this a prenounciation thing?

[@alext8828]

Yeah, it's phosphene. Can't believe this to thru with nobody spotting that. Bravo!

[@macforme]

I think this is going to work better for people who LOST their sight than for people born blind. I don't know why... just a hunch.

[@user-if1ly5sn5f]

1:21 the receptors release chemicals and electrical impulses through the nervous system and stimulates the brain.

[@Senacacrane]

This is crazy 😧

[@ericchausse1701]

I have a question. What about enhancing the visual acuity for people who already have some/ limited vision. Will NeuroLink assist with aiding those people as well?

[@Bluesrains]

WOW ELON!! I BELIEVE WITH ALL MY HEART IF ANYBODY CAN MAKE THE BLIND SEE IT'S ELON MUSK!! YOU SHOULD GET THE BIGGEST NOBEL AWARD FOR THAT HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT!!

[@garysimon7765]

Fantastic. Wonder if it works on horses and others?

[@brown2889]

I would be very interested in recording dreams. I read about 10 years ago, Berkeley was doing this with some success. Haven’t heard anything since.

[@anthonylosego]

I think they had a documentary on the topic in the 80s. I believe it was called Brainstorm.

[@brown2889]

@@anthonylosego It was a movie. What is currently being done is fairly rudimentary and involves fMRI scans while sleeping reading electric signals in the certain regions in the brain. Best way for now to interpret the images is to do comparisons before the dreams. So machine learning and a lucid dreamer, i.e. someone who knows they have lucid dreams often can watch a trailer for a movie before they go to sleep. Dream, then while dreaming have the scan. Then describe images that maybe comparable to images in the scan. It’s very rudimentary currently, but with Grok and Nerualink and some good candidates that have lucid dreams fairly regularly I could see this in the future. Especially if multiple implants were present. No jokes here.

[@BBBrasil]

Phosphene “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

[@johnsonrepp]

Around 1000 now but 16000 in a year or two…. Well folks, the future is now. Our children will not live in a world we recognize. Elon said the tech to turn off ADD & ADHD is already being used now. As a parent all I can do is support the technology of tomorrow, period.

[@etbenson]

Sorry, but there is no tech capable of "turning off add/adhd" without making the subject into a vegetable

[@ZeeshanAslamDurrani]

Wow !!! that's amazing stuff !!!

[@gerardocomas450]

Has it been tested? I need to know. I have my left eye as blind since birth. I can see only through my right eye. I grew up as a small child thinking that everyone who has 2 eyes 👀 can see 1 vision, 1 eyesight. Just like 1 TV. As I got older, I started to realize why God gave people 2 eyes & my mother tested my left eye (the blind eye), it hit me hard that she told me that everybody sees in 2 eyes like 2 TVs. 1 TV per eye 👁️. Growing up in the 1970s, my teen years, I was inspired by watching the “Six Million Dollar Man” where Steve Austin had a bionic eye 👁️ able to see at great distances❣️. My thought 💭 was, I wish I could have what Steve Austin had & knew it was purely Sci-Fi. Now when I heard that Neuralink is able to do such incredible things never done before. That’s why I asked if it has been tested before? FYI, I’m almost 62 years old now.

[@TheDripMeister]

truly fascinating

[@helahola]

good for people who need it in the future, maybe 100 years later. people who need it in this generation would've died of old age waiting for it.

[@lingnguyen81]

Wow ….awesome I really admire what you do 👍❤️

[@Nobody-ng5hc]

Yes, i want ads straight to my head.

[@pegs1659]

This is totally awesome!

[@uFamous_Breakfast1792]

marvel of engineering

[@devineandconquer9508]

Nuralink about to make Hardcore Henry a reality

[@zombieman1114]

i've wondered about this topic since watching startrek tng back in the day

[@Rainier_Azucena]

Why would it be pixelated when in all of the green Earth no organism sees in pixelated images?

[@elyakimlev]

Imagine a world where you digitally enhance your vision so that your 4/10 girlfriend looks like your 10/10 fantasy Elven girl, while all other girls look unattractive. And vice versa, of course. You'll only be beautiful to each other. No more envy in the world, lol. Edit: people would still have to stay fit, though. vision can only go so far.

[@infinitedeath1384]

Why do that when technology has advanced so far? Just join the virtual world where all your senses can be stimulated by the neuralink implant. There's no consequences, and all the pleasure you want, with whatever floats your boat 😍🤭.

[@user-if1ly5sn5f]

6:29 Elon said they saw how they worked since the first patient and don’t need as many and can locate them better and seat them better. It’s gonna be sick.

[@chrismayer3919]

I’ll believe it when I see it… literally! 👁️

[@solidsneak69]

Can we have infrared vision or like thermal vision? 😮

[@burbercat3558]

I'd settle for night vision, infa red would be cool though.

[@teddystevens6624]

They can do this and almost anything else you can think of once they get it working well

[@thebadlander3608]

Ted was right

[@emberlight8457]

This us what AGI should be used to solve in the future, not trained on how to be sentient and take control over humans

[@jayttcorrea6207]

Cure blindness? I want an infrared 10x zoom camera in my brain hahahaha

[@nowlwane9623]

It a true cure for a subscription fee of two thousand per month. Oh and we don’t continue service after the company ends.

[@radeksparowski7174]

how much monthly to block popup ads and remove censorship?

[@MrNote-lz7lh]

Zero

[@radeksparowski7174]

@@MrNote-lz7lh they will do the same thing with implants as they did to the free internet

[@Gabrilos505]

We are more and more getting Deus Ex Human Revolution vibes from Neuralink

[@BurstNibbler]

Reminds me of Geordie's visor in Star Trek TNG

[@angerskarin9222]

Well neurallink could also let paralized people move by bipassing their injury and sending the signals to move, so they should be to move again.

[@CIBERXGAMING]

7:30 does the fluid in our ears fix that?

[@Native722]

Amazing

[@wykonczeni]

Just imagine those soldiers with built in night vision and forget about personal use because of patents 😂

[@user-if1ly5sn5f]

8:43 or sensors like metal detectors arranged to vision or other types of vision like animals or zooming or higher definition.

[@danielloacker5864]

Back when neuralink was announced elon said “there will be upgrades”

[@ptiger3677]

Imagine using this to add more eyes for yourself

[@taunhawk9888]

We are heading in the direction of the device used in the Black Mirror episode: Striking Vipers

[@infinitedeath1384]

Can't wait to date an actual virtual girlfriend.

[@bibap-uo2io]

At 1:23 you made the first incorrect statement. Ask an optometrist how it works and try again. In other words, think before you speak.

[@SaSo-mk6yh]

That's really amazing

[@njdarda]

coming right after Full Self-Driving!