OpenAI's SECRET Brain Tech vs Neuralink

We have a competitor to Neuralink. Did you see? No way. So he he's just hired a top neurological researcher, Mikuel Shapiro. He's a award-winning biomecular engineer. He basically pioneered this uh way of re looking at cells with ultrasound. I'm guessing that's something like the Apple Watch where it kind of bounces off. I don't know, more accurate, something like that. So, so Alman has hired him to he thinks there is a way a non-invasive way to read brain activity with ultrasound. So this whilst neuralink actually drills into your skull and puts stuff in there, this is just completely using ultrasound. It's a really interesting um uh advancement that I don't think they've actually done it yet, but Alman has hired him and I sort of felt like this went a little bit under the radar a little bit because it's this is amazing. Like it's really interesting and we'll get into some of the other stuff that Open have been doing. But this just did not get any airtime from anyone. So yeah, and I thought because you you you love the the the Neuralink. Yeah, I like prior to Elon going crazy, I would say just drill a hole in my skull [laughter] and install install [clears throat] this. Um, for people who don't know, I I I'm not sure if people know Neurolink. Uh, have you have you seen the Neurolink the the famous monkey video? The famous very old video now four four years ago. And just in short, this monkey learns how to use a joystick to play a game. And then they obviously they they are monitoring his uh brain activities. And later on in the video, you see that they deattach deattach the joystick and he's just thinking and moving his muscles and they are like basically controlling the computer by this monkey just thinking about controlling the cursor. He's not physically controlling it. So this is very important to understand and this was four years ago. Today uh this has been installed on human brain and actually like there are people who can type on their smartphone faster than any other human can type on a smartphone just by thinking without like just a normal iPhone with a neural link um attached to their head. Now that comes with a big uh caveat and it's it's um mentioned in this video by Cold Fusion very well. I really recommend this video and I think we will add this also to the description. Uh you should watch it. So there are a lot of companies doing what Neurolink is doing. Neurolink was like a pioneer or at least they were really good at marketing themsel in that way. Um, and the issue with Neurolink is that you have to drill the skull, like literally [snorts] put a hole and then add like micro needles. These are very small, tiny, tiny wires that literally penetrate your brain tissue. They're inside of your brain tissue and that way they can read and write. That's that's very important. They can read what you are like trying to do. That that that's not like for everything. They can't read what you are thinking. But for example, if you want to move your hand, these wires in your head, they pick up that you want to move your hand and it reads it. And not just that, they can also write to it. Meaning that you if you are blind, I believe there are like even uh it's not just theory. they've been like uh implementing this in um some some to some level of uh success that like there are cameras maybe not as high quality as these cameras but there are cameras that can capture the environment and then they send the signal to to the patient's brain and the in your brain you would see what the camera is seeing and theoretically in the future we'll be able to have like ultra vision or whatever you know, zooming and night vision and everything just by attaching these devices to your head. And this has been something that Neurolink has been very good at. But now a lot of companies, a lot of competitors uh are coming up with, as you said, like other ways without penetrating the skull, without like drilling a hole. Um, other companies are trying to have a device that can read without needing a surgery and Neurolink itself has a lot of issues because it's not very stable apparently. So, it works for a few months and then it stops working or these needles some of them stop working. So, the read speed and the the the amount that you can do with it decreases sharply over like a very short period of time. Still, all of that being said, this is very early. Uh, but it is very exciting. It's in the first stage, it's great for people with dis disabilities, but soon it will be for practically everybody, right? You' be able to control, communicate potentially, and with AI, it's just getting more uh wild and it's Yeah. Uh, it's it's very fascinating. So with the open AI uh version, so it's a kind of com because it's hard to think that it's hard to believe that the one that literally is putting needles in someone's brain is sort of failing or not failing, but you know what I mean? It it it stops working and then you've got Open AI who's saying they can do it through ultrasound, which is like yeah, you think that the thing that going right into the brain is is going to work. So one part to the open AI one is that they it's a gene manipulation thing as well. So basically it won't be that you well I mean you can but the step one of the journey of got using this system is that you start to change your genes that so that they respond to ultrasound. So your cells respond to ultrasound and that will go into your brain and then and then that's how you control it. It's kind of like wireless charging for for for smartphones or whatever. It's sort of like you're you're putting the technology in the blood in the in the in the in the tissue in the matter um and then using a device to then control and and manipulate or read and write and stuff like that. So again, all very very very interesting. This is part of a larger conversation on my show Command AI which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter.