Let's just stick to making computers smarter, how he got human trials approved must be a chunk of his 58 billion bonus fund, and we complain about our management bonuses.
But will the human test dummies be euthanized when the shitshow goes wild?
In a September report that dropped just a day after Neuralink announced that it was recruiting for its human trials, Wiredreportedthat as many as a dozen of the rhesus macaques the company experimented upon suffered all manner of freakish symptoms, including brain swelling, partial paralysis, and self-harming behavior. Eventually, many of the monkeys had to be put down.
In one 2019 incident, a chip that was being implanted into one of the macaques's brains "broke off" during the procedure. After the monkey woke up from its botched surgery, it scratched at the site of the implant, made itself bleed, and partially dislodged it. The wound, as it turned out, was infected, but because the implant blocked any treatment options, the macaque was euthanized.
Another 2019 experiment subject was witnessed pressing her head to the ground following implantation and picking at her surgery wound until it bled, eventually losing her coordination. She too was euthanized.
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