Earlier this year, the US Food and Drug Administration gave Neuralink, which Musk cofounded in 2016, approval to launch human trials of its device that Musk has described as a “Fitbit in your skull.” The FDA had previously rejected Neuralink’s bid for human testing in March over safety concerns, Reuters reported, including that the wires connected to the brain chip could move within a subject’s head or that the chip could overheat.

  • DigitalFrank@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    “Think about how dumb the average person is. Now, realize that half of them are dumber than that.”

      • George Carlin
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      2 years ago

      I know what the quote is saying, but that is the median, not an average. Average can have 20% of the population in the top 50% of performance. median is the exact middle of all people when they are ranked