Neura Pod (All Things Neuralink‪)‬ Ryan Tanaka

After getting FDA approval last year, Neuralink has successfully completed their first in-human implantation.

Ryan shares the latest news and updates in this information packed episode.

Elon gave an update a couple days ago on an X Space. Oddly enough, Vladimir Putin heard about this first implantation and commented on it. There's been a lot of discussion regarding the latest VR/ AR tech product- the Apple Vision Pro. Ryan compares this functionality to a Neuralink. Ryan then goes into more investigative detail to learn about Neuralink's testing procedures. Following a (bogus) Delaware court ruling on Elon Musk's pay package at Tesla, Neuralink has officially moved out of Delaware and reincorporated in the state of Nevada.

Apply for Machine Learning Position at Neuralink: (I shortened link) https://rb.gy/7c7p73
Neuralink's Patient Registry: https://neuralink.com/patient-registry/
Neuralink careers: https://neuralink.com/careers/

00:00 Intro
00:23 Elon update
01:38 Outline
02:20 Pics inside HQ
03:43 First human implanted w/ Neuralink
08:46 Putin's thoughts on brain chips
10:55 Apple's Vision Pro vs Neuralink
17:30 Testing the implants
18:51 The team's advantage
20:15 Changed state of incorporation

Links:
Elon's Neuralink update on X: https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1759859577393238091
Cleo Abram on Neuralink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w9_D9rejsU
Romina's team picture: https://twitter.com/RominaNejad/status/1751393585847734507?s=20
Sam's squat rack post: https://twitter.com/samschmitz/status/1751088932761330026?s=20
Brandon's Christmas tree picture: https://twitter.com/hovmoses/status/1730044569486766300?t=05Jmrh2UYDXto2AIy-4NxA&s=03
Elon's announcement - first human implanted: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1752098683024220632?s=20
Neuralink's clinical trial - PRIME study video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7o39CzHgug&t=1s&ab_channel=Neuralink
Monkey MindPong: (1:59 - 2:07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=ZuHEbX8U-DQgSEbS&t=119&v=rsCul1sp4hQ&feature=youtu.be
Putin interviewed by Tucker Carlson on X: (1:48:58 - 1:51:03) https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1755734526678925682?s=20
Casey Neistat on Apple Vision Pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=0yeW6utiGk3-eGLU&v=UvkgmyfMPks&feature=youtu.be
Cleo Abram & Marques Brownlee on Vision Pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7hJlyVDEc8&ab_channel=CleoAbram
Elon says you can quasi-time travel: https://twitter.com/NeuraPod/status/1728889767922991339?t=qyvkFBXz1Ox6W9-xa60pog&s=03
Vision Pro sales speculation: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/29/apple-vision-pro-headset-sales/
Controlling a Tesla w/ Vision Pro - UrAvgConsumer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5ioBUUpd2IA
Mark Zuckerberg x Morning Brew Daily: (28:54 - 29:23) https://youtu.be/xQqsvRHjas4?si=DP3ELriJrGONzGkh&t=1734
Elon announcing first product name- Telepathy: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1752118131579867417?s=20
Neuralink testing video: https://twitter.com/neuralink/status/1640857347575693316
Joe on internship acceptance rate: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joesharron_neuralink-internship-softwareengineering-activity-7141475497439281153-XdLl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
Elon's response to me about moving out of Delaware: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1756331713469247500?s=20
Delaware judge's official court ruling: https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=359340
Shivon's post - "Man in the Arena": https://twitter.com/shivon/status/1384990175298658304/photo/1

X: https://www.x.com/ryantanaka3/

Support: https://www.patreon.com/neurapod/

Opinions are my own. Neura Pod receives no compensation from Neuralink and has no formal affiliation to the company.

#Neuralink #ElonMusk #Tesla


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00:00 Intro

00:30 First human implants

03:00 Cost of Neuralink procedures

03:17 Estimated # of surgeries

05:00 Neuralink is open to recruitment https://www.neuralink.com/patient-registry/

07:47 Neuralink x Tesla partnership

10:27 Elon x Joe Rogan

11:14 Elon x Lex Fridman

11:55 Elon x Walter Isaacson

12:25 Elon x Ben Netanyahu

13:58 Elon x Rishi Sunak

14:41 Neuralink - AR/ VR

17:35 Series D Funding

18:30 Neuralink is hiring https://www.neuralink.com/careers/

18:45 Please follow and repost



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Support: https://www.patreon.com/neurapod/



Neura Pod is a series covering topics related to Neuralink, Inc. Topics such as brain-machine interfaces, brain injuries, and artificial intelligence will be explored. Host Ryan Tanaka synthesizes information, shares opinions, and conducts interviews to easily learn about Neuralink and its future.


Please consider supporting by joining the channel above, or sharing my other company website with retirees: https://www.reterns.com/. Opinions are my own. Neura Pod receives no compensation from Neuralink and has no affiliation to the company.



#Neuralink #ElonMusk #Tesla


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00:00 Intro
00:20 Outline
01:00 Tesla Robot x Neuralink
03:56 Monkey playing Minecraft
06:08 Robert F. Kennedy asks Elon about Neuralink
07:54 "Competition" from Apple and Meta

Neura Pod is a series covering topics related to Elon Musk's company: Neuralink, Inc. Topics such as brain-machine interfaces, brain injuries, and artificial intelligence will be explored. Host Ryan Tanaka synthesizes information, shares opinions, and conducts interviews to easily learn about Neuralink and its future.

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/neurapod/

Support: https://www.patreon.com/neurapod/

Please consider supporting by joining the channel above, or sharing my other company website with retirees: https://www.reterns.com/. Opinions are my own. Neura Pod receives no compensation from Neuralink and has no affiliation to the company.


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00:16 Elon on helping quadriplegics and the blind

01:29 Neuralink background

02:52 James Douma explains how this works

04:34 Can Neuralink actually do this?

05:07 Neuralink will learn a lot

07:14 How we see

09:27 Improvements will occur rapidly

13:14 The brain is flexible



Zuby x Elon Interview: https://youtu.be/pjc_oo4ApSY

Think a tiny chip could be the answer to blindness? Sounds like sci-fi, right? Well, you might want to think again.

Here’s a clip of Elon sharing the first two problems his company Neuralink is focused on solving.

Around 40 million people around the world have some form of blindness. This number continues to grow, but fortunately this problem may become an issue of the past.

If you’ve been subscribed to Neura Pod, and already understand the basics of how Neuralink will work, go ahead and skip the next 60 seconds of the video.

So far, Neuralink has demonstrated they’ve successfully been able to implant this quarter-sized package in monkeys and other animals, and now that it’s time to test in humans, you’re probably wondering how this tiny package will be able to provide vision to those who don’t currently have it. Neuralink is working on building a brain-machine interface, or device that will help us send information from our brains to our computers and vice versa.

The surgery will require cutting open a hole in the skull, and having a surgical robot sew these very tiny threads into the brain. The threads have probes that can detect electrical impulses from the neurons and then send this information back to the chips.

Since there are many problems Neuralink hopes to solve in the future, like depression, blindness, or paralysis, they have to identify the best areas of the brain to implant these chips. In the case of paralysis for example, they’ll implant in both the motor cortex and the spinal cord. In the case of solving blindness, they’ll implant in the visual cortex in the back of the brain.

I had the chance to interview James Douma and ask him for more detail on how they’ll be able to achieve this.

Thanks for watching. My name is Ryan Tanaka. If you’re interested in hearing more from James about how Neuralink works, check out this video.


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00:00 Intro

01:01 Outline

01:46 Head Neurosurgeon Discusses Implant Safety

02:20 Close-Up of Electrode Threads

03:51 Testing Neuralink’s Threads

04:47 Apply to Patient Registry

05:15 Practice Surgeries

06:02 Monkey looking for treats

06:32 Wireless Charger Heat Dissipation

07:52 Dr. Matthew MacDougall x Dr. Andrew Huberman

Neuralink’s Patient Registry (First step to be considered for clinical trials): https://www.neuralink.com/patient-registry/

Neuralink’s Head Neurosurgeon, Dr. Matthew MacDougall interview on Dr. Andrew Huberman’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2739&v=3ZGItIAUQmI&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=AndrewHuberman

Work for Neuralink: https://www.neuralink.com/careers/

The Singularity Lab w/ Michael Mataluni: https://www.youtube.com/live/HqY7cQwMz_o?feature=share

If all goes according to plan, the next episode will be called something like: "What's next for Elon Musk's company, Neuralink"


Neura Pod is a series covering topics related to Neuralink, Inc. Topics such as brain-machine interfaces, brain injuries, and artificial intelligence will be explored. Host Ryan Tanaka synthesizes information, shares opinions, and conducts interviews to easily learn about Neuralink and its future.

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ryantanaka3/

Support: https://www.patreon.com/neurapod/

Please consider supporting by joining the channel above, or sharing my other company website with retirees: https://www.reterns.com/. Opinions are my own. Neura Pod receives no compensation from Neuralink and has no affiliation to the company.

#Neuralink #ElonMusk #Tesla


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00:00 Intro
00:44 Neuralink x AI
01:30 Elon’s tweets
03:56 Elon's specific AI concerns
04:49 GPT10 x Neuralink v10
05:26 Why Neuralink?
07:09 Building images based on MRI brain data
07:40 Animal care
10:06 Monkey is doing well w/ upgraded implant
11:08 Neuralink imaging
11:25 Elon would implant kids w/ Neuralink
12:09 Patient Registry
12:39 Interviews
14:01 Dr. Krishna Shenoy

Vanity Fair, October 8, 2014: https://youtu.be/Ze0_1vczikA?t=7
Do You Trust This Computer?, April 5, 2018: https://youtu.be/aV_IZye14vs?t=4285
Future of Life Institute Open Letter to Pause AI Experiments: https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
Reconstructing images from MRI data, March 2, 2023: https://twitter.com/elon_alerts/status/1631704634631782423?t=MLEYZzzk6MdVgceIm79fcQ&s=03
Joe, Neuralink team, February 14, 2023: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joesharron_i-am-proud-to-say-im-part-of-the-research-activity-7030981147077562368-vle_/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Elon would implant kids w/ Neuralink, November 30, 2022: https://www.youtube.com/live/YreDYmXTYi4?feature=share&t=9219
Imaging at Neuralink, April 4, 2023: https://twitter.com/neuralink/status/1643339633546215430?s=20
Neuralink upgradeability: https://www.youtube.com/live/YreDYmXTYi4?feature=share&t=1845
Neuralink’s Patient Registry: https://neuralink.com/patient-registry/
Dr. Cody Rall's TechforPsych: https://www.youtube.com/@CodyRallMD/featured
Herbert Ong's Brighter w/ Herbert: https://youtu.be/x_HOPQdeGO4

Neura Pod is a series covering topics related to Neuralink, Inc. Topics such as brain-machine interfaces, brain injuries, and artificial intelligence will be explored. Host Ryan Tanaka synthesizes information, shares opinions, and conducts interviews to easily learn about Neuralink and its future.

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ryantanaka3/

Support: https://www.patreon.com/neurapod/

Please consider supporting by joining the channel above, or sharing my other company website with retirees: https://www.reterns.com/. Opinions are my own. Neura Pod receives no compensation from Neuralink and has no affiliation to the company.

#Neuralink #ElonMusk #Tesla


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