Elon Musk wants to ditch headphones for a music streaming brain chip

[Initech]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks headphones will eventually become the thing of the past. This week, he confirmed his plans to develop an implant that will stream music right into people’s brains.

Musk plans to develop the new brain chip through his startup company Neuralink.

Besides being a father to his newborn son X Æ A-Xii with Grimes, Musk is currently developing life-changing technology. On July 19, he confirmed on Twitter his plans to develop the music streaming implant.

He sent out a tweet encouraging tech engineers to apply to work at his company Neuralink and then confirmed the brain chip plans to a curious follower.

Musk is giving a Neuralink update on Aug. 28. According to TechCrunch, the startup aims to “develop computer-brain interfaces for the explicit purpose of helping humans keep pace with advanced artificial intelligence.”

Neuralink plans to implant the music streaming technology into a surgical robot that implants gossamer-thin wires, thinner than human hair, into a person’s brain. An external processing unit is then placed behind the ear.
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Why do I picture the end of Kingsman: The Secret Service happening in real life?

[keepthemhonestO]

1. no chips in me please

plus I love music and all but picturing the glitch where the music won't turn off! yikes

[Initech]

9. You can buy a million pairs of headphones, but you only get one brain!

[keepthemhonestO]

23. Exactly!

I am sure there would be some sort of tracking thing in there too. I'll pass!

[MineralMan]

2. OK, Everybody: JACK IN!

Oof!

[Initech]

8. I can see parents now: "Have you been jacking on again???"

[MineralMan]

13. Yup. Or "What are you doing in there for so long?"

[Mad cow]

3. Yikes!

No thanks!

[BannonsLiver]

4. Musk is a creepy libertarian Bond villain

[LisaM]

24. Yes!

That's exactly it.

[Initech]

26. Fo sho!

[2naSalit]

40. He sure is. ...nt

[Peacetrain]

49. This!!!!

[NightWatcher]

5. I want that too. I would volunteer for that in a heartbeat, except that.....

My apple AirPods were amazing when I got them more than a year ago. Now they drop the bluetooth connection regularly, fail to connect, lose a charge......

I would love a permanent hardwired speaker in my brain. Imagine the tactical communication applications....

But it would be shit in two years and we'd all look crazy, tapping on the sides of our heads for a reset.

[Initech]

12. Then we would all be Cousin Eddie!

[NightWatcher]

16. every time she'd use the microwave, I'd piss my pants and forget who I was for an hour...

Love it.

[grumpyduck]

6. Resistance is futile.

You too will be assimilated.

[LanternWaste]

37. Yeah... it's as if people think this is merely a choice.

Rather than the ham-handed dystopian novels we've all... well, 'assimilated' into a pretense of reality we believe more than the real thing.

[ProfessorGAC]

39. I Admit, I Thought The Same

Although, a Borg would be a super cool Halloween costume. Heavy, but cool!

[Newest Reality]

7. Nope!

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I wouldn't trust my head meat to that megalomaniac Musk no matter how advanced or cool it is.

In fact, I am dissapointed that he is the one leading the innovations on this. Will he move the service to another head and leave you lobotomized if you don't agree with his terms?

[grumpyduck]

41. You wouldn't trust your head meat to that meathead?

[Newest Reality]

43. Hehehe.

[bedazzled]

10. Think i saw that in a doctor who episode

No thanks

[Initech]

20. It was also the plot of Kingsman: The Secret Service

It ended with the world's elite all losing their heads (literally) in a colorful, fiery explosion.

[bedazzled]

32. Oh yeah i forgot that one

Perversely satisfying ending!

[Initech]

33. That was bloody spectaculer!!

[bedazzled]

35. The bit in the church was good too

That was the first movie? I try and be a Buddhist but sometimes i fail miserably

[Initech]

42. Yes, the second one had its' moments but overall wasn't as good.

I will be interested in seeing the prequel when / if it comes out later this year.

[bedazzled]

45. Ah... i remember MOVIES AT THEATERS

the good old days. Checked out "mars attacks" the other day to see satisfying scenes with congress. "For some picky reason, the Secret Service don't want the executive branch... ...and the legislative branch in the same room at the same time."

[jaxexpat]

11. Count me out on that idea.

I have all the music I need in my head already.


And. I wonder about volume control.

[rzemanfl]

14. Earworm is quite enough, thank you. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

15. Yeah! Great idea!

I think not.

[SunSeeker]

17. Elon Musk has become a caricature of himself. nt

[hunter]

18. There's always a cacophony of music and voices in my head.

I don't need more.

[MissMillie]

19. See... this is where all the conspiracy theories come from

All the nut jobs out there insisting a C-19 vaccine is all part of some deep-state push to put chips in our bodies.

[ismnotwasm]

21. Another device predicted by science fiction

I won’t see medical nanotechnology or body modification at the level predicted in my lifetime though

[ornotna]

22. The phone company

It's your phone company too!

[Iggo]

25. You first, Elon.

[brush]

27. No thank you.

[Demsrule86]

28. You first Elon...the guy is nut.

[brooklynite]

29. Muscling in on Bill Gates?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-gates-id2020/

[Silent3]

30. I'm not categorically against the idea of brain implants, but I'd want a lot more than just music...

...from something so invasive, and I certainly wouldn't be in a rush to be the first on the block with a brain chip.

Provide me with something that's proven safe and does a lot more than streaming music... like enhanced memory, quick access to huge repositories of information just by thinking about what I want to know, communication, Google-glass-like information about my local environment, etc... then you'd pique my interest.

And, of course, many advances in security, not just medical advances, would have to be made before I'd consider it safe.

Sadly, however, getting close to 60 years old, I sincerely doubt such technology will be available in my lifetime.

For those who may live to see such a day arrive, I can see for now that a whole lot of people think it demonstrates Great Wisdom to completely dismiss ideas like this out-of-hand, as if never, ever trusting technology like this is the only possibly safe way to go.

[GreenPartyVoter]

48. But think of the viruses and malware. What if we go BSOD? Yikes!

[onethatcares]

31. he goes first and

I get to do the install. What could possibly go awry??

[Doodley]

34. What's to stop you hearing voices in your head? Telling you to kill? Telling you

to buy products? Telling you who to vote for? What's to stop the "voice from God" app? Or a Manchurian candidate? Maybe we already have that last one?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

36. Nope. nt

[Calculating]

38. Nope, just nope

I will not have 'neurolink implants' in my brain.

[icymist]

44. Musk - Mom, Musk Store - Mom Store

[miyazaki]

46. Forget the brain plant, what's his son's name?

[GoCubsGo]

47. Knock yourself out, Elon.

You want to put a chip in your brain? Go right ahead. I'll stick with headphones, thank you very much.