"We feel pretty confident that in the next year or two, someone with a Neuralink implant would be able to outperform a pro gamer because the reaction time would be faster."
However, I don’t think that that necessarily makes a very compelling practical point.
The Neuralink is not cheap. You’re talking about a surgical implant. And short of getting to automated surgery, I don’t think that we can likely improve on the cost much.
Professional game players are using input devices that – while certainly optimized over the decades – are not designed to be the best-possible input device out there. The keyboard, mouse or gamepad look and work the way they do because they can be mass-produced inexpensively. If you have the kind of budget that’s going to be involved with doing surgical implantation of neural interfaces, my guess is that you can probably get a pretty capable external gizmo.
Like, I’m not saying that there isn’t a use case for something like the Neuralink. But I don’t think that “Neuralink vs game input device for pro gamers” is a very compelling case to pick to highlight to show off the Neuralink.
He’s probably right.
However, I don’t think that that necessarily makes a very compelling practical point.
The Neuralink is not cheap. You’re talking about a surgical implant. And short of getting to automated surgery, I don’t think that we can likely improve on the cost much.
Professional game players are using input devices that – while certainly optimized over the decades – are not designed to be the best-possible input device out there. The keyboard, mouse or gamepad look and work the way they do because they can be mass-produced inexpensively. If you have the kind of budget that’s going to be involved with doing surgical implantation of neural interfaces, my guess is that you can probably get a pretty capable external gizmo.
Like, I’m not saying that there isn’t a use case for something like the Neuralink. But I don’t think that “Neuralink vs game input device for pro gamers” is a very compelling case to pick to highlight to show off the Neuralink.
He’s definitely not right
Is he ever right about literally anything?
He must have said something right at some point, but it probably wasn’t public or immediately parroted by his fan club