Shivon Zillis

Artificial intelligence, biological intelligence, and whatever exists in between and beyond. Made in Canada.

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Neuralink devices are investigational and have not been approved by the FDA or other regulatory authorities. This video features voluntary clinical trial participants sharing their personal experiences, which may not reflect all participants or future outcomes.

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Learn more about Neuralink’s clinical trials: https://t.co/1jn9Jge7tY

Neuralink devices are investigational and have not been approved by the FDA or other regulatory authorities. This video features voluntary clinical trial participants sharing their personal experiences, which may not reflect all participants or future outcomes.

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We've been exploring how clinical trial participants can control a powered wheelchair — with their minds.

Here's how we’re doing it 🧵

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The Neuralink implant has over 1,000 electrodes sitting across over 100 threads, each thinner than a human hair and inserted into the motor cortex by our surgical robot. The electrodes record the activity of neurons that fire as a participant intends to move.

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The dura is the brain's armor: a membrane so tough that a surgeon normally cuts through it with a scalpel. For the first time in our clinical trials, we inserted the electrode threads of our implant straight through the dura and into the cortex, keeping the dura intact.

Here's how we did it 🧵

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This isn't easy. The dura can be over 10x thicker than our electrode threads, which are thinner than a human hair. The brain beneath it is constantly moving, and the membrane hides the very blood vessels we need to avoid.

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Our goal at Neuralink is to restore abilities that were thought to be lost forever due to injury, accident, or disease.

See how Audrey, who is paralyzed due to spinal cord injury, uses her brain-computer interface to play video games with her mind.

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Lil’ Shrub in a shrub

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Saturday vibes. Get it little lady!

Passion makes the world go round ✨

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“When I’m moving that cursor, that’s me” ♥️

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We all have our guilty pleasures…

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He who looks to the stars ✨♥️

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Rare starwhal sighting

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I’m always hit with a sense of awe that humans have created something so productively massive every time I drive by Giga Texas.

Given this scale image it’s tough to even fathom what a sight to behold Terafab will be!

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Me every time a new Chamath meme drops

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Come for the launch, stay for some of the most stunningly beautiful art you’ve ever seen.

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Two thumbs up as high up as they can get 🚀

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We first started with giving computer control back to those who’d lost it, now making progress on restoring physical world autonomy too.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. So much more is possible with continued effort!