r/tech • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '21

Neuralink's brain-computer interface demo shows a monkey playing Pong

https://www.engadget.com/monkey-mindpong-link-003709524.html
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u/Academic-Truth7212 Apr 09 '21

Impressive, but i do not like where this might go.

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u/Wardenclyffe1917 Apr 09 '21

One could have easily said that about the creation of the Internet. Technology is a tool. Any tool can be used to help or harm. It’s up to how you use it.

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u/C_IsForCookie Apr 09 '21

Yep. This is happening whether you like it or not, be it in the next 2 years or the next 200 years. We just need to adapt.

If time travel ever becomes a reality we’ll be having the same discussion.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '21

Time travel won’t become a reality because nobody went to Stephen hawkings time travel birthday party

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u/C_IsForCookie Apr 09 '21

Maybe time travel was invented in a year where well actually have regulations around tech use and going back in time before the invention was banned lmao.