Growing concern for a Neuralink patient

Elon Musk's startup was announced at the end of January Neuralink Successful insertion of their brain chip into a human. They had previously tested their invention using animal experiments. Announced last week Elon MuskThe patient has fully recovered from the operation and is in good health progress Be discoverable. Musk said the patient should be able to control a computer mouse just by thinking.

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Experts find the silence strange

In the specialized journal Nature, scientists are now starting to sound the alarm. They are increasingly concerned about the patient. The reason for this is the prevailing silence about the patient's condition. Researchers believe Musk's statement is a hoax.

“Neuralink shares with us what they want us to know about it,” he said. Samir SheetNeurosurgeon specializing in Baylor College of Medicine Working with nature's nervous plants. “This causes great concern in the research community.”

The researchers point out that we still don't know how good this is Surgical robot Neuralink actually works. Sheth says we are so far Video recordings only We will see where you can see how the device is on one Plastic doll Working. However, these recordings are more than a year old. However, Neuralink leaves us in the dark about whether it has been used in human organ transplants in January.

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The monkey's brain chip has come off

In the past, Neuralink has been criticized for its treatment of monkeys Animal experiments done. A series of leaked documents showed that Neuralink caused a variety of horrific brain injuries to monkeys. In a Monkeys The chip in the brain simply broke off. Therefore, euthanasia was necessary.

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