,
10 tweets,
3 min read
Read on Twitter
Elon Musk's secretive brain-interface company @neuralink going to reveal something on Tuesday. In the following thread, I will guess what it is. Please pitch in! 1/
Assumption i they want to measure neurons directly (inside the brain). cause that is where the signal is. 2/
Assumption ii they are doing it in monkeys. Because monkey brains like our own. 3/ gizmodo.com/neuralink-is-f…
Its a neural sewing machine. That is, a hard penetrating needle that can leave behind soft, biocompatible electrodes in a brain. 4/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (paper by some team members)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
No, its optogenetics. Monkeys are getting gene therapy to make their brains light sensitive. Stimulate and record. 5/ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30441577
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30441577
No, it's some kind of conventional Brain-Computer Interface, and the novelty is the application of some kind of AI scheme for decoding info. 6/
(paper for speculation above: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29713079) 8/
No, says @halhod, it's a protoype of "neural dust", which is a bunch of metal motes you'd put into the brain, then record from using acoustic pings. ( Though this was project of Neuralinker DJ Seo at Berkeley, i'd rate this low probability.) 9/ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
No, says an anonymous but well placed guesser, its thin flexible electrodes and a demo of brain-control by some non human primates. maybe sewing machine, maybe not /10
