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FULL REVEAL! Elon Musk’s Neuralink chip tested live in pig brains

At a Neuralink event, Elon Musk shows of the latest advancements from his brain implant startup, including a demo showing a tiny computer chip that measures brain activity inside pigs.

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  1. birddog

    August 29, 2020 at 1:07 am

    Neuralink 0.9 has one thousand channels?!
    My neuralink 0.8 has only five hundred…

    ..looks like it’s time for an upgrade jajaja

    ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  2. I Am Pixel

    August 29, 2020 at 1:08 am

    Pig: become machine.

    The game’s looking good. Had no idea Musk would be in this intro cutscene.

  3. Charlie Millington

    August 29, 2020 at 1:10 am

    Elon got bored of waiting for Cyperpunk so he made cyberware irl

  4. murcielago Batman

    August 29, 2020 at 1:11 am

    Can’t wait for live action g gundam

  5. Chirag Patel

    August 29, 2020 at 1:12 am

    When i heard that music…i was like 😲WoooW, we are actually peeking into a pigs brain.

  6. Mr. F

    August 29, 2020 at 1:13 am

    But what does it do?

  7. Ali Hassan Mirza

    August 29, 2020 at 1:13 am

    Is it Halal

  8. verymad scientist

    August 29, 2020 at 1:13 am

    It big brain

  9. Geddu

    August 29, 2020 at 1:14 am

    Then suddenly you fell asleep while updating bios then you die

  10. dilanz51

    August 29, 2020 at 1:15 am

    I love Elon but his presentation skills are terrible

    • Oni

      August 29, 2020 at 1:20 am

      Lol that’s true

  11. G Ghj

    August 29, 2020 at 1:18 am

    The government has been doing this to people for decades

  12. Gang Shii

    August 29, 2020 at 1:18 am

    What am I supposed to do with this information

  13. Andrey Lucas

    August 29, 2020 at 1:19 am

    What can this be used for?

    • DarthMagusMT

      August 29, 2020 at 1:27 am

      The main feature is to be able to communicate with each other telepathically, save memories to replay them vividly like a movie, and possibly help people that have chronic pain.

  14. Traditional Sunni

    August 29, 2020 at 1:19 am

    Whens the neuralink ultra pro max 2 coming out

  15. TheDude

    August 29, 2020 at 1:19 am

    and the benefits to knowing when a pigs nose is touching something is what exactly? I mean asides from the dubstep.

  16. onehit pick

    August 29, 2020 at 1:19 am

    Now the aliens implanting stuff in humans makes sense. I always wondered why they would do it. They wanted to experience our sense of smell translating it to one of their senses that worked. Well they should have figured out that pigs are much better at smelling and less controversial to implant as long as the look happy. All joking aside. We’ve been putting neural implants and sensor arrays in things like cockroaches for about 50 years. Even though we eat mammals, I didn’t think it would become legal or accepted by animal rights folk to do in higher level vertebrates. I guess the “happy and normal” pig and having infinite money to ward off legal and activist attacks is important.

  17. Justin's Cinema

    August 29, 2020 at 1:21 am

  18. Justin's Cinema

    August 29, 2020 at 1:21 am

    😍

  19. Justin's Cinema

    August 29, 2020 at 1:21 am

    😂

  20. Oni

    August 29, 2020 at 1:21 am

    I’m not convinced until the pig does a backflip

  21. Waleed

    August 29, 2020 at 1:22 am

    So destruction of humanity starts.

  22. A. Jas

    August 29, 2020 at 1:23 am

    There is so much to consider how not novel this is. Detecting the”loudest” signal, i.e. the quadrapedal motion signals, is not difficult. But then ground truthing that with a (biased) computer vision system instead of an EMG is just ludicrous. There’s a lot more “noise”, background processes, in the human brain to easily isolate very many useful signals.
    Can anyone tell a brain damaged pig from a regular pig? Probably not, so you cannot confirm removal will not have long lasting effects.
    No mention of battery life, wireless transmission protocols/encryption (hi HIPAA), processing power, etc. Miniaturization aside, there is nothing here worth a press conference besides his megalomania.

    • Sarah Blake

      August 29, 2020 at 1:27 am

      you definitely can tell a brain damaged pig from a non damaged pig. they have mris for animals that can detect brain damage. another thing id say is maybe the conference is important just to show that keeping the implant in which is the first step, does not harm the pig so far

  23. Michael Barrett

    August 29, 2020 at 1:24 am

    You could have done all of that with a fit bit…

  24. Michael Barrett

    August 29, 2020 at 1:26 am

    2 chips – one for the left side of the brain and one for the right. Total brain domination… lol

  25. Executive Tutoring Services

    August 29, 2020 at 1:26 am

    When is the terminator coming

  26. Narq

    August 29, 2020 at 10:43 pm

    I wonder when the aliens are going to make him return home.

  27. feliciano b

    August 29, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    Soy el unico latino aca?

  28. talha tanwar

    August 29, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    Nobody:
    Elon: let’s read pig thoughts

  29. Hexafoose

    August 29, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    Isn’t transhumanism wonderful?
    You should probably pay more attention to this technology.
    Control is the end game.

  30. Stephanie Grow

    August 29, 2020 at 11:06 pm

    One can invision an implant inserted into the brain of an amputee with a robotic limb. The Neuralink is implanted in the area of the cerebral cortex that sends commands for movement. The Neuralink interprets the commands and communicates to the robotic arm via bluetooth or wires. How do you transmit over RF to the robotic arm without frying brain tissue over time?
    Musk hasn’t told us how he accessed the recorded data for his presentation. Hasn’t told us about the complications of having battery cell technology in something as fragile as the brain.

    • Stephanie Grow

      August 29, 2020 at 11:22 pm

      His presentation looks like an implant experiment (the things in the presentation do not happen in real-time; it takes several hours to put this presentation together, possibly days):
      (a) record video of the pig during movement [or better, record 3D data by position sensors placed at the joints of the pig],
      (b) download the Neuralink cortex data after the experiment,
      (c) align the video [or 3D sensor data] with a plot of the cortex data,
      (d) the predictive modeling is then obtained by applying AI to this 3D data and cortex data.

      Step (b) could be achieved using a wired jack, or through low power bluetooth.
      Step (c) would require time-stamped data for alignment, then exporting the 3D data and cortex data to a format for display (3D data would be superimposed on a video of the pig; the cortex data would be converted to a matrix plot, including a tool to convert the 1024 bit summed value to a sound value)
      Step (d) is where the real work is in this project.

  31. Shayden_draws on YT

    August 29, 2020 at 11:07 pm

    The pig army shall rise

  32. rohit sharma

    August 29, 2020 at 11:14 pm

    Lemme hack the app and see what all my crush is thinking/doing.

  33. amf

    August 29, 2020 at 11:15 pm

    🤳

  34. JO

    August 29, 2020 at 11:20 pm

    This reminds me of those old fake healer guys selling medicine out of an old horse drawn cart in the Wild West many years ago.

    Nothing has changed really, the marketing guff is exacty the same but only the technology has moved on considerably.

    Remember when they used to sell dodgy cure all medicines in glass bottles?

    Yep, it’s the same marketing spiel but now the quack scientists will drill the fake tech straight into your brain instead like a miniature limpet mine, unpredictable and ready to blow off your skullcap in the blink of an eye.

  35. MrZaRaKi82

    August 29, 2020 at 11:21 pm

    Whoever thinks that this will be used to be smarter, think again…rich guy spends bilions to make you, the average joe smarter… yeah, sure

  36. Pablo Mettler

    August 29, 2020 at 11:24 pm

    Elon 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  37. gangigirl1

    August 29, 2020 at 11:29 pm

    Why do I have the feeling that Elon Musk would have fit right in with Dr. Josef Mengele’s “research” during WWII?

  38. Terrion

    August 29, 2020 at 11:33 pm

    Bruh I though a song was about to drop. Was waiting for the beat any second….

  39. Bharat Varma

    August 29, 2020 at 11:39 pm

    Stupidest thing I’ve heard till now “you can download memories and restore it in a new body or robotic body”. You got to be kidding me .

  40. Robert Motión

    August 29, 2020 at 11:40 pm

    So now bacon 🥓 gon’ come in lithium flavor😏🤷🏾‍♂️

    /Bklyn👑

  41. J Hall Aquatics

    August 29, 2020 at 11:48 pm

    The mark of the beast!!! DONT TAKE IT!!!

  42. Maro

    August 29, 2020 at 11:57 pm

    Me :waiting for a cyborg pig
    Elon musk :pig goes beeb bob

  43. Daniel Shaver

    August 30, 2020 at 12:22 am

    I never realized before, pigs walk like a cat does, both legs on one side, then both legs on the other side.

  44. What Ever

    August 30, 2020 at 12:27 am

    Like 2020 isn’t already weird enough.

  45. Saul Arias

    August 30, 2020 at 12:37 am

    Now pigs will become like George Orwell’s animal farm pigs hahaha

  46. Chad Thundercock

    August 30, 2020 at 12:41 am

    Why does it sound like Elon Musk is the guy presenting the project he knows nothing about?

  47. Kaboom 214

    August 30, 2020 at 12:44 am

    You cannot perfect bullet proof glass, self driving mode & now you want to work on the brain? 🐺🐑

  48. じゃみっと

    August 30, 2020 at 1:00 am

    Elon should use his own family members to test this technology. That way, they’ll be the true pioneers, instead of the pigs taking all the credit.

  49. rache

    August 30, 2020 at 1:23 am

    Disgusting display of animal abuse.

  50. wingsandstrings

    August 30, 2020 at 8:02 pm

    Don’t take the Covid virus vaccine. This could be a way to control the masses with mirco machines.

  51. Saurabh Shirsulla

    August 30, 2020 at 8:33 pm

    What if hospitals/doctors have backdoor access to these chips? They can create new disorders and syndromes in a healthy brain!
    Is getting technology integrated with human the right way to go? This is scary as well as exciting at the same time!

  52. Sebastian Kramer

    August 30, 2020 at 8:34 pm

    Elon Musk is a very smart person

  53. Kyle Alegre

    August 30, 2020 at 8:48 pm

    Elon: Bring out the Terminator

  54. Matt

    August 30, 2020 at 9:33 pm

    What if Elon has already developed this tech for himself and has been using it for years as a human supercomputer? lol

  55. WaQaar Ahmad

    August 30, 2020 at 9:33 pm

    What about covid 19 vaccine ??
    Actually at the time of “act of god” science is helpless. So, please don’t interface with nature , just use the knowledge for mankind .

  56. LOS PENDANGOS YT

    August 30, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    This aint good

  57. wiggledytoes

    August 30, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    Am i missing the point, havent we been able to detect neurons before?

  58. Jardel Deckmann

    August 30, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    Estou começando a temer o que esse cara é capaz de fazer ao planeta e ao ser humano… está cercando a terra com satélites, implantando chip no cérebro de seres vivos… tenho a sensação de que em breve vou pensar “que saudade dos tempos em que eramos livres e felizes, sem saber que vivíamos no paraíso”.

  59. Gabriel Sedillo

    August 30, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    A large part of this is great because humanity is taking big steps but there’s always gonna be a downside.. I see the positive but cant be naive and forget the possible bad.. Congrats Musk but im very suspicious of how good and yet bad this can get.

  60. Scrub Boi Notorious

    August 30, 2020 at 10:32 pm

    Cyberpig 2077

  61. Damir Agović

    August 30, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    Could someone explain to me what does this do, what is the point of this Neuralink? I am not sure I understand quite well.

    • KuipeR

      August 30, 2020 at 11:01 pm

      It will most likely be able to get rid of pain, anxiety, fear, help with dementia and other disorders, etc. You might even be able to download knowledge right to your brain, who knows.

    • rxyth / mark

      August 30, 2020 at 11:28 pm

      its actually supposed to be a Brain Machine Interface, with the primary audience being major trauma patients (such as a Spinal Cord injury)

  62. Henry Read

    August 30, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    Better hope they don’t connect to the internet and look up what humans do to pigs.

  63. Marlee R

    August 30, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    Elon should be first human to get implanted

  64. DR BROWN

    August 30, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    So…, either y’all wanna know how many times someone sticks their nose in some dirt or talk to r2d2…

  65. Henry Read

    August 30, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    Now my dream of teaching animals to talk and offering them a place among civilization and making a planetary council of all the different species is a more real possibility. I think this is key to our survival imagine what knowledge they could have about things like space travel or respective technologies that each different species could hold new ideas for like what does an octopus or a dolphin or a elephant know if you teach it history and science and physics and the whole get up about the universe. What if birds could teach us how to fly better.

  66. Ciel Azul

    August 30, 2020 at 10:59 pm

    why even mess with implants? wouldn’t genetic editing/modification of humans eventually eliminate many if the same diseases just as well?

    aside from the cloning demonstrated decades ago, all that came of genetic experimentation was a complete ban of the tech world-wide. How is this any safer or any less ethically questionable 🤔

  67. danny davis

    August 30, 2020 at 11:20 pm

    cool but definitely never want one lol

  68. Artur

    August 30, 2020 at 11:48 pm

    Great, these people will be getting hacked and controlled

  69. April 29 1992

    August 31, 2020 at 12:31 am

    Upgrade

  70. A B

    August 31, 2020 at 12:33 am

    So what does neuralink actually do?

  71. Brianna Gordy

    August 31, 2020 at 12:49 am

    “You can be healthy and happy and indistinguishable to a normal pig”.

    Jesus Christ, Elon. 😂

  72. Pompous Panda

    August 31, 2020 at 12:52 am

    Transhumanism agenda going full throttle in 2020, don’t believe the lie you cannot live forever or have superpowers based on your own ingenuity and strength any type of computer chip In your body will make you a puppet to the elites

  73. Robert Aguilar

    August 31, 2020 at 1:04 am

    R those electric pigs????

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