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Originally Posted by namisgr11
This works, as you can plainly see. So, too, have brain-computer interfaces given hearing to the deaf, vision to the legally blind, the ability to have a computer convert their verbal thoughts into speech when they can no longer talk, and several other applications already in human use. Ear implants into the cochlea for restoration of hearing have been in practice for 25 years now.
There's a huge difference between a cochlear implant and a brain-computer interface. What you posted isn't a brain-computer interface either it's a brain-spine bridge.
There have been lots of medical products that "work" for treating a condition and then never make it to market because in clinical trials it gets found out that they cause other problems. There's been a mountain of cancer treatments that work at killing a tumor, and then they never made it through clinical trials because they also kill the patient.
"In human use" is an important step to bringing a medical product to market but it's far from any guarantee that it ever passes through trials. 90% of drugs that enter clinical trials fail to pass through them. A brain-computer interface is far more complex than a drug. In my view, it's an investment scam. A lot of biotech isn't anything more than that.