Their implant sounds impressive . I m not sure about their answer about plasticity though. IIRC , previous implants like the braingate had issue with the tuning of neurons shifting over time, requiring patients to retrain the model.
Yeah, that's a super interesting area of the whole bundle of tech they talked about. Obviously, years of in-situ research are the only way to prove anything out, but the brain is so complicated it definitely seems like there could be higher order effects between the input/output sides where the brain is rerouting and working around the fairly "static" model that the chip/backend is using. In other words, is there any reason to think that neurons will start flipping their axons around when they detect potentially alien inputs? The cells themselves are obviously capable of this whereas the electrodes are static physical objects.
