Neuralink is genuinely insane..

This is a guy who now has learned to speak because of Neurolink. Let's take a look at this. I want to watch this. Well, this one's not even working either. So, let me just go back up. I'll scroll up and see if I can find it here. There we go. There we go. I'm talking to you with my mind. Approximately 80 to 90% of people with ALS lose the ability to speak as we're starting off with reducing human suffering. Our first product is called telepathy and that enables someone who has lost the ability to command their body to be able to communicate with a computer and the ability to do conceptual consensual telepathy. Voice clinical trials investigating how brain computer interference can restore the ability to communicate for those with severe speech impairment. In January of 2026, Ken became the second participant to receive a Neuralink implant for voice. He will be able to think and his device will speak for him and it will sound like him. It will be OG Ken from way back in 2020 before his voice changed. Okay. I'm not certain about whether soulmates exist or not, but if they do, you're mine. I took one look at your dating profile and I was like, "Wow, I was smitten." Ken and I had a whirlwind romance. We met on e-harmony. How about that? And we actually texted for 19 hours straight. At the end of that day, he says, you know, can I call you? And when I heard Ken's voice, that was it. It was love at first sound, I guess, is kind of the way it is. Yeah. After we met, we actually started a black car business. He drove people from the airport to meetings. It was at that point where we kind of started noticing things changing. Uh-oh. I noticed that, but I tried to p up. I was all over. It just wasn't normal. And during CO is when we noticed his voice starting to change. In January of 2024, we received the news that Ken had ALS. Oh my god. I remember feeling kind of the See, in my opinion, like this is like one of the scariest [ __ ] things, bro. Like especially you're getting older. Like I'm getting older now. I'm like 35 and like is like the fact that you can just get like RNGed like this is like so scary. Like that guy from Only Fans like just dying from guy's a billionaire, right? Just like dies from cancer at 43. Somebody else gets ALS and just like [ __ ] crashes out like this. Like it it's scary. It's really [ __ ] scary, bro. Like whole weight of the world and it was really scary. I had already lost a husband. I think Ken was worried that he was going to leave me alone again. That was hard for you. Yeah, I bet. I like to go out like to be able to go and do things. Jesus Christ. And can't even go shopping anymore. Holy [ __ ] And I can't get help lots of the time because people don't understand my speech. It's really frustrating. It's not only just the muscles not working, but it's the fatigue. You don't realize how much energy it takes to talk until you don't have that energy to waste and it really takes away independence. Many especially functional speech within 2 to 3 hours got really quiet. Wow. It's the silence that comes with ALS was kind of one of the things I didn't realize when it started was going to be one of the things I noticed the most. The neural link device gives us something that no other device can give us which is a a single neuron recording from thousands of channels simultaneously. The telepathy products is basically recording the neural activity from the small area in the motor cortex that involve in execution of hand and arm movements. But if we go only about two or three inches below there's another brain area that involved in execution of speech. That's the part of mine that's I just heard about Neuralink online. I'm saying weird [ __ ] And when he saw that they had a patient registry open for people with ALS, he signed up that day. He's a gamer. When you have, you have neuron degeneration. You're unable to transport the signal from your brain to your muscles. It's like a severed internet cable. And with a brain computer interface, you buy Damn. Damn interface. You bypass this pathway completely and you can read directly from your brain to a device to do the things you want to do. What the [ __ ] Like most ALS patients, Kenneth was losing his ability to speak. It was slow. And you see, bro, he has a gaming PC. Look at that [ __ ] man. God damn. And you see, by the way, the controller is not on the top anymore. It means he's using that [ __ ] It was slow. It was tiring and difficult. And it's something that is progressively getting worse. And so the real value of the brain computer interface is that it would give Kenneth his voice back. Mhm. He'd be able to speak comfortably for hours on end by no longer having to speak out loud, but rather just intend to move his mouth silently in a way that's extremely comfortable. Yeah. He was so excited and I could tell he was excited. I could tell he was a bit nervous. Elon said the benchmark for uh Neurolink will be whether you can play Starcraft 2 with it. Honestly, that's a good idea. That's a really good idea. Like I would say it's like you have like two ends of cuz like you know you think about the amount of like actions that need to be taken like there there's that and then there's also something like Rocket League, right? where like you have the two like ends where it's a game with like a high degree of complexity and then a high degree of like uh like like form and like behavior, right? I guess it's a better way to say it like how can I say it in a better way? It makes more sense. Uh it's like there's a difference between like high levels of like actions versus a very particular type of action precision I had was but Starcraft 2 is a really good one because my my capacity is lower otherwise I would come home. Ken had surgery and they sent him home the next day. It was such a smooth process. Get the [ __ ] out of would have never known sort of 2 days down the road that anything had ever happened. Uhhuh. We stayed in Dallas uh for a time after the surgery. We just did our uh second voice participant surgery last week. Today will be our first day with BCI. We'll go in, show him how to use his charger, how to use his app, and we will guide him for some sentences to attempt to say, and we'll use that data to try to map neural intent to the actual words. Yes, this is it. Awesome. They have that. So when a user gets a brain computer interface, it's sometimes important for them to play around with their behavior to see what works best. That makes sense. What we did was Kenneth slowed down a little bit and tried to enunciate kind of the individual sounds of his sentence and really like out of nowhere we went from 0 to 100 with the model. The rain in Spain says mainly on decoded sounds. Okay. The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plane. I see. So, they're they're using the Okay, I get it. You guys see what they're say? I I think what they're trying to do is they're trying to map out what his brain does whenever he wants to say those words and that way they can do it without having the intermediary. So all he has to do is think those That's exactly what they said. Yeah, I think that's what's happening. Hello. Nice to see you, Charlie. Nice to see you guys. Good morning. Come on in. Good morning, Kevin. Good to see you. Say that. We're still in an early stage. It's not part of it. But Kenneth is helping us build the future. We'll start with some data collection just to collect some sentences. After that, we'll train some models and and get going. We'll do these at uh half speed with mouthing and just continue in that direction. By the way, I think that there really has to be a lot of respect given for guys like this because even though I mean you're definitely in like a scary position, being willing to be one of the participants to test technology like this. I mean, you don't know if something like this could go wrong. You know, there could be any infinite number of negative consequences that haven't even been conceived of. And this is a guy that was brave enough, willing enough to undergo this, uh, it could be fatal. Yeah, of course. Right. And it could be worse. Um, you know, he he went through this and it's going to be better for everybody in the future because of that. I think it's it's important to keep that in mind. It is it's extremely brave. Decoding silent. Oh, I see. So, this is how they can Yeah. So, it's I guess it's kind of like they're paving the road, right? Siri, turn on lights in every room. Bro, even he was like, "Damn, really? Wait, for real? What the fuck?" Yeah. He's like, "What? I think this is awesome." The goal is like we want him to be able to simply just intend to move his mouth and for our BCI to decode his speech. Uh-huh. I'm talking to you with my mind. Nice work. What was different there in the in my head? Putting more effort in, more intention. Modulating your neural signals more. I am the very model of a modern major general. Great. Nurling has given us not only Ken's voice back, but it's really given us a boost. It's given us the chance for Ken to kind of be a pioneer. What excited me, they fired it up and he told me that he loved me. man in OG Ken voice. So emotional for me to hear it the way I heard it on the phone all those years ago. Something else. I am finally able to talk to you. Damn. Damn. We're going to continue advancing the quality of the sensors, the number of the sensors. That's the thing. This is the worst it's ever going to be. Y'all think about that. It's never going to be worse than this. Isn't that crazy? We want to build a system that goes directly from the brain to voice in real time. And Kenneth will have instantaneous feedback and control of this voice. Everyone gets his own color. will be blue. I am going to pay three to play Search for Life. I will take three. You're going to do that? Yes, please. I'm done with my turn. Yes. Give you a purpose. We were together. Sorry, I'm getting a little bit annoyed because my friend Alec would always want us to play this game and I always hated this game, but he would always cuz I was thinking like, is this the same game? I think it's the exact same game. This game would annoy the [ __ ] out of me to make this thing better. It's back in the day. Maybe I can't go this, but they can't participate in features. True. and then give feedback. Yep. It will give us back a voice and the voice is a very important thing to have. It would be a total waste of who I am. I didn't do all the good we do. The boy. Nope. I take out. Damn. good to be with the Lord and that's the number one thing that I'm doing because I'm doing good for others and that is the best thing you want. You are the captain of your own ship. Make the most of what you're given in life. Man, that's badass. Isn't it? That's incredible. Holy [ __ ] Like I I I love these videos and like honestly I I think like again like this shit's it's only going to get better, right? It's only going to get better. It's only going to improve. Like I am so so [ __ ] happy to see this. And it's like people never think about this. Life change forever finding a good way. Yeah. This is why we build. Yeah. Exactly. Will vision be restored in the future? Oh, that's a big one. That's a really big one. Uh yeah, I don't know if they can do that or not. And uh ask maybe tear up. I mean I I don't really get emotional for things, but like in general like I mean I think it's it's incredible what they're doing. I think it's amazing what they're doing. So yeah, for those who come after I guess so. And uh yeah, X-ray vision is possible. I mean, I guess eventually like I just I don't know if they have like that's that's probably like I I think that they're probably going to be able to cure paralysis faster than they cure blindness, but I mean I'm I'm not working at Neuralink, so like what the [ __ ] do I know? But like I I think that they'll be able to based off of what I understand. Uh but like I'm I'm not an expert, right? Obviously. So uh who knows? Did you invest in a company? No, I haven't. I mean I I I haven't really been paying much attention to it, right? But um I I wanted to show you guys this. It just it literally just came out while I was live, right? And I wanted to watch it just because I am very interested in this content, right? As somebody who has been an enjoyer of Sword Art Online, Log Horizon, and you know, all these other ones, like when I see something like this, I think to myself, just a little bit closer. Just a little just a little bit closer. Oh, we're getting a little bit closer to it. Right? And so that's why I'm thinking about it. And uh yes, I'm very very happy to see this. This is awesome. Neuralinks restoring speech to those that have lost the ability to speak. I know. And I think it's going to continue. It's going to continue getting better, right? It's incredible.