I totally agree, I am totally unimpressed, Elon knows how to create hype and get smart people to do something. Smart people sometimes can't do it, it take a generation of research to access brain raw information. Codos to him to collect such smart minds but we are away 10-20 years from meaningful read and write to the brain.
> it take a generation of research to access brain raw information.
I don't see why this has to be the case. I'd more expect that the pace of research will accelerate as devices like Neuralink come onto the market and allow much higher resolution and more precise data to be collected across many more individuals.
10-20 years is reasonable for more advanced capabilities but they've figured out prediction of pigs' limb movements in ~1 year, so we could have neurally-controlled human prostheses very soon after trials begin.
i can imagine how seing the recent progress made by ML technologies in processing huge amount of information in real time to extract cognitive information, one could think the same kind of technics could be applied to other fields, provided you manage to reach the same amount of raw information.
