Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Eventually we all become cyborgs. Many of us already are, depending on your definition. 🤖
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Wilhem Pujar
@wilhempujar · CEO at Stacktical, the Scalomancist
@rrhoover Pretty sure my mother-in-law is.
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jerod moore
@jollymonatx · Co-Founder goKittr & Coffee hunter
@rrhoover exciting :)
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Tyler Hayes
@thetylerhayes · Bebo
@rrhoover totally. First our bodies. Then our minds
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Narek Vardanyan
@narek_vardanyan
@rrhoover let's hope the cyborgs will once decide to become humans again.
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Scott Hanford
@hanfordscott · Head of Growth @ www.drivecanvas.com
@rrhoover I've been watching far too much Black Mirror for me not to be a little worried about meshing tech + the human brain...
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Marc Van Den Broeck
@dakawa · Creative geek and a mogul ski freak
@wilhempujar @rrhoover looks like we have the same mother-in-law ;-)
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Niv Dror
@nivo0o0 · Writer/Social Editor @ProductHunt
Elon has often spoken of the next step in human intelligence involving a direct link between our brain and the AI. This panel he was recently on with all the best AI people in the world is super interesting:
TL;DR Elon believes our (human) "input" is actually quite high (our eyes can see a lot of things in super HD) but our "output" is limited by what he calls "meat sticks" (our fingers). Hence, the solution is to connect the AI directly to our brain, so we can have input/output closer to that of a machine.
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Articles about Elon's newest company (since the company's landing page only directs to jobs)
Wall Street Journal (who broke the story): Elon Musk Launches Neuralink to Connect Brains With Computers https://www.wsj.com/articles/elo...
The Verge: Elon Musk launches Neuralink, a venture to merge the human brain with AI http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/2...
Business Insider: Elon Musk has launched a company that hopes to link your brain to a computer http://www.businessinsider.com/e...
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Hope Atina
@the_onlyhope · BioBreaks.com
non-boring news from elon.👍👍👍
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Andrew Rasmussen
@a13n · Founder of Canny
Man, I don't know how he does it. Running so many relevant, important companies... how does he have time for another one? BCI (brain computer interface) seems inevitable, excited to see him working on it.
It's pretty hard to find more info, TechCrunch wrote a brief article: https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/2...
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jerod moore
@jollymonatx · Co-Founder goKittr & Coffee hunter
@a13n maybe he already has one of these
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Andrew Rasmussen
@a13n · Founder of Canny
@jollymonatx That would explain a lot. And also be a pretty legit testimonial for his new company. 😅
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James Frew
@dr_motley · Writer
@a13n I thought exactly the same thing when I heard about this. The other exciting thing is that despite all his projects seeming initially sci-fi-esque they actually start to show results so since it's been operating for a year I'm hoping we will see something from it soon.
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.Caito!
@rscattini · B2C Product Strategist;UX Fundamentalist
How he does it? Picking some technologies at left of the Gartner's hype cycle.... there is other report that consider other dimension: the imapct that it would have. BCI is part of the transfomational.
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Ben Novak
@novakben · I make things 🤓
@jollymonatx @a13n 😂🤖😂🤖
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Conrad Barrett
@conradd · Product Manager, ZX Ventures (AB InBev)
Where is the Musk fund that allows me to invest in all his companies
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Kristian Ivanov
@k_ivanow · Tinkering with everything
@conradd That would be pretty awesome
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Miguel Martinez
@miguelmartinez · Founder of Five
Wow, this guy just can't help himself. Pushing science to the limits. This is awesome.
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Zak Kinion
@zak_kinion
This company is hard to do my research on, thats for sure. All I could also find is a max@neuralink.com email address, who seems to be https://angel.co/maxhodak in addition to the jobs@neuralink.com one.
Whois.sc shows Neuralink IT Solutions, Inc. as the holder, but thats just probably who they bought the domain from.
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Niv Dror
@nivo0o0 · Writer/Social Editor @ProductHunt
@zak_kinion @neuralink nice find! I figured that has to be the homepage, would make sense for a stealth startup like that to 1) have a landing page and 2) have it link only to jobs 😎
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Dionysia McPherson
@dionymcpherson · Co-Founder, Paperform
Oh boy, so many ways this could go wrong. Curious to see it happen though.
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Kunal Bhatia
@kunalslab · Co-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp
This world must be a simulation!
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Stas Kulesh
@stas_kulesh · Creative Director, Sliday
Shit got real.
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jerod moore
@jollymonatx · Co-Founder goKittr & Coffee hunter
So soon I'll be able to think "I want to have the robot change the cats litter" and it won't be just wishful thinking. NICE!
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Jason Lankow
@jasonlankow · CEO, Visage
@jollymonatx and then you'll be able to say to yourself "oh, $%#@, I'm the robot and changing the cat's litter is my job now"
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jerod moore
@jollymonatx · Co-Founder goKittr & Coffee hunter
@jasonlankow Brain linked AI without litter robots other then me, not a future I want to live in. Nurolinking® can finally crack this barrier to better living.
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Scott
@scotty_mcq · Electrical Designer
@jasonlankow @jollymonatx Your purpose in life is to pass butter
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jerod moore
@jollymonatx · Co-Founder goKittr & Coffee hunter
@scotty_mcq @jasonlankow Welcome to the club pal
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Asad Dhamani
@asaddhamani · Founder, Crestify
Really looking forward to this! This is straight out of science fiction!
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jerod moore
@jollymonatx · Co-Founder goKittr & Coffee hunter
@asaddhamani hopefully the good happy sci-fi.
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David Weisburd
@dweisburd
Where is the "Get It" button? ☺️
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Robert Simoes
@robertsimoes · @PressureLabs
BCI is such an interesting field of work, I found the idea of mind uploading and BCIs to be particularly interesting about a year ago. I believe @WalterOBrienSCS steered me towards it after @tferris ' podcast with him. (see link below)
There's quite a few popular figures working in this field, physics heavyweight Michiu Kaku in particular is big into neuroscience on a general level, but its cool to see lots of big names trying to understand this fascinating biological computer we call a brain.
All in all its a "scary" step into a new direction. Scary mostly because its a step in the direction of something that hasn't been formally attempted (en-mass that is). Will be interested to see both the ethical and technical considerations of the "product".
Which makes me curious to know if it is a company, a research project/lab, or another organization such as Open AI, any insights?
edit; whoops forgot link:
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Morgan Polotan
@morganpolotan · Investor, Bloomberg Beta
Are we sure this isn't an early April Fools joke?
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Abhijith
@abhijithcu90 · Co-Founder, Tenory
Tim Urban was right! we are moving at lightning pace when it comes to advancements in AI. Highly recommend his 2 part article about AI here:
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/ar...
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/ar...
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eboy
@eboy · Art Director & Illustrator. Erosner.com
We need more Musk.
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Wilhem Pujar
@wilhempujar · CEO at Stacktical, the Scalomancist
The disappearance of the medium-message couple that defined humanity until now. Check out Michel Serres' book, "Thumbelina" https://www.amazon.com/Thumbelin...
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Reony T
@megaroeny · Designer & EV Advocate
Someone get @Elonmusk to claim himself as a maker 😄
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Bob Troia
@bobtroia · Entrepreneur, Emerging Tech
But theoretically, couldn't Neuralinks be connected in reverse, thus allowing AI to control connected humans (and their "meatsticks") to do its bidding? 🙀
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