A) Biotechnology research lab B) Robotics manufacturing corporation C) American neurotechnology company D) Artificial intelligence software firm
A) Artificial intelligence algorithms B) Automated surgical robots C) Implantable brain-computer interfaces D) Virtual reality headsets
A) Elon Musk B) Max Hodak C) Jared Birchall D) Benjamin Rapoport
A) 2016 B) 2018 C) 2015 D) 2017
A) April 2018 B) May 2019 C) March 2017 D) January 2016
A) Del Valle, Texas B) Fremont, California C) San Francisco, California D) Austin, Texas
A) Del Valle B) San Francisco C) Mission District D) Fremont
A) About 5 miles B) About 20 miles C) About 50 miles D) About 10 miles
A) $650 million B) $55 billion C) $158 million D) $100 million
A) $650 million B) $100 million C) $158 million D) $58 million
A) 8 B) 1,500 C) 150 D) 90
A) A device for stitching closed surgical wounds automatically B) A device capable of implanting very thin threads into the brain C) A machine that weaves artificial neural tissues D) A laser-guided tissue repair tool
A) 4 to 6 μm B) 20 to 25 μm C) 10 to 15 μm D) 1 to 2 μm
A) 90 B) 158 C) 1,500 D) 2002
A) 2020 B) 2024 C) 2019 D) 2023
A) 2023 B) 2021 C) 2024 D) 2025
A) Animal testing B) High-volume production C) Human trials D) Commercial sales
A) February 8, 2024 B) September 2024 C) April 2021 D) January 29, 2024
A) Noland Arbaugh B) Jared Birchall C) Max Hodak D) Benjamin Rapoport
A) For testing unapproved drugs on lab rats without consent B) For releasing modified animals into the wild C) For failing to provide adequate food to test subjects D) For the large number of primates that were euthanized after medical trials
A) Infections caused by improper cage sanitation B) Miraculous recoveries from paralysis C) Behavioral changes unrelated to the surgery D) Complications with surgically implanted electrodes
A) Precision B) NeuraLink C) Blindsight D) Neural Lace
A) To restore hearing to deaf individuals using auditory nerve stimulators B) To allow paralyzed patients to walk using robotic exoskeletons C) To enhance normal human vision beyond standard biological limits D) To enable blind people whose visual cortex is undamaged to regain some level of vision
A) Priority patent status B) Breakthrough status C) Commercial exemption status D) Small disadvantaged business status
A) Precision Neuroscience staff B) Toronto's University Health Network C) Delaware Court of Chancery D) Gigafactory Texas medical team
A) Severe brain diseases B) Pong addiction C) Cervical spinal cord injuries D) Undamaged visual cortex blindness
A) Jared Birchall B) Pedram Mohseni C) Noland Arbaugh D) Max Hodak
A) Max Hodak and Benjamin Rapoport B) Philip Sabes and Vanessa Tolosa C) Tim Gardner and Tim Hanson D) Pedram Mohseni and Randolph Nudo
A) To make devices to treat serious brain diseases B) To allow monkeys to play video games C) To manufacture automated sewing machines D) To achieve symbiosis with artificial intelligence
A) Human enhancement B) Cortical replacement C) Artificial evolution D) Neural networking
A) Matrix B) Neuromancer C) Snow Crash D) The Culture
A) Iain M. Banks B) Elon Musk C) Max Hodak D) Benjamin Rapoport
A) A digital layer above the cortex B) A mechanical helmet for reading brainwaves C) A surgical thread made of silicon D) A chemical compound that repairs neurons
A) To achieve symbiosis with artificial intelligence B) To destroy all artificial intelligence entities C) To completely replace human thought with AI D) To regulate AI through government oversight
A) As a harmless video game simulation B) As the ultimate solution to all diseases C) As an existential threat to humanity D) As a minor inconvenience to society
A) A smartphone cloud synchronization B) A video game saved game situation C) A computer hard drive backup D) A digital library catalog
A) Elon Musk B) Benjamin Rapoport C) Max Hodak D) Jared Birchall
A) Head of Musk's family office B) CEO of Tesla C) Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery D) Co-founder of OpenAI
A) Chief executive officer and sole owner B) Majority owner without an executive position C) President and chief financial officer D) Minority shareholder and board chairman
A) President B) Chief financial officer C) Director of engineering D) Chief executive officer
A) Pressure from OpenAI B) Safety concerns C) Relocation to Texas D) Financial disagreements
A) NeuraLink Corp. B) Precision Neuroscience C) Tesla D) OpenAI
A) Surface electrodes B) Wireless radio electrodes C) Thread-based electrodes D) Penetrating electrodes
A) Only three B) Only two C) Zero D) All eight
A) Gigafactory, Texas B) Mission District, San Francisco C) Fremont, California D) Del Valle, Texas
A) Tesla B) Precision Neuroscience C) Stat News D) OpenAI
A) April 2021 B) May 2021 C) March 2017 D) January 2024
A) 1995 B) 2016 C) 2002 D) 2010
A) Using surface electrodes instead of penetrating ones B) Teaching the monkey to speak English through the implant C) Eliminating the need for any surgical procedure D) Making the implant wireless and increasing the number of implanted electrodes
A) February 2024 B) January 2022 C) May 2021 D) April 2021
A) Only two B) Only three C) Zero D) All eight
A) December 2025 B) April 2025 C) January 29, 2024 D) February 8, 2024
A) Max Hodak B) Kathaleen McCormick C) Jared Birchall D) Noland Arbaugh
A) U.S. federal government B) U.S. Small Business Administration C) Nevada Supreme Court D) Delaware Supreme Court
A) A publicly traded corporation B) A foreign neurotechnology entity C) A non-profit research foundation D) A "small disadvantaged business"
A) Neuralink.net B) SAM.gov C) Tesla.com D) OpenAI.org
A) $158 million B) $55 billion C) $650 million D) $100 million
A) About $9 billion B) About $100 million C) About $158 million D) About $55 billion
A) Relocation of headquarters to San Francisco B) Human trials in Canada C) Mass euthanasia of primates D) "High-volume production" of its devices
A) A non-surgical intravenous insertion procedure B) A surface electrode attachment procedure C) An almost entirely automated surgical procedure D) A manual sewing-machine guided procedure
A) 2017 B) 2019 C) 2018 D) 2020
A) 2020 B) 2019 C) 2021 D) 2018
A) Titanium B) Polyimide C) Silicon D) Platinum
A) Copper or silver B) Gold or platinum C) Nickel or iron D) Aluminum or tungsten
A) 12 or 24 B) 48 or 96 C) 128 or 256 D) 512 or 1024
A) 16 B) 128 C) 64 D) 32
A) Tungsten-rhenium B) Pure platinum C) Titanium alloy D) Stainless steel
A) A stepper gear mechanism B) A hydraulic pump C) A linear motor D) A piezoelectric actuator
A) Flattened into a paddle shape B) Bent at the tip C) Coated in gold plating D) Sharpened to a microscopic point
A) 64 B) 1,536 C) 512 D) 256
A) At least 1,000x B) Exactly 10x C) More than 200x D) Up to 50x
A) Thermal B) Lossy C) Lossless D) Acoustic
A) Outdated technology B) Just outlandish C) Easily achievable D) Boringly simple
A) Rabbits B) Pigs C) Sheep D) Monkeys
A) PETA B) NASA C) WHO D) FIFA
A) Joyce B) Dorothy C) Gertrude D) Peppa
A) 100 millimeters B) 50 millimeters C) 5 millimeters D) 23 millimeters
A) Joyce B) Gertrude C) Babe D) Dorothy
A) Dorothy B) Gertrude C) Joyce D) Wilbur
A) 50 B) 2 C) 100 D) 15
A) BBC B) Fox News C) The Onion D) Reuters
A) Wired B) Vogue C) Sports Illustrated D) Cosmopolitan
A) Partial paralysis B) Bloody diarrhea C) Brain swelling D) Spontaneous combustion
A) 2022 B) 2024 C) 2017 D) 2020
A) Tumors B) Granulomas C) Fractures D) Cataracts
A) It had already been approved for human commercial use B) It was already working in monkeys C) It was being manufactured underwater D) It required no hardware components
A) The New York Times B) The Washington Post C) The Wall Street Journal D) USA Today
A) Antony Blinken B) Gary Gensler C) Jerome Powell D) Janet Yellen
A) Phyllis Fong B) Elon Musk C) President Donald Trump D) Gary Gensler
A) Phyllis Fong B) Ryan Merkley C) Gertrude Pig D) Roy van Rijn
A) Broken bones B) Neurological conditions C) Common colds D) Digestive disorders
A) Bluetooth interference B) Magnetic resonance failure C) Lithium battery D) Overheating processor
A) Seattle, Washington B) Houston, Texas C) Phoenix, Arizona D) Los Angeles, California
A) MindLink B) Synapse C) Telepathy D) NeuronX
A) 25% B) 85% C) 50% D) 10%
A) Paul B) John C) Bob D) Alex
A) AutoCAD B) SolidWorks C) Autodesk Fusion D) Blender
A) Andres B) Noland C) Alex D) Paul
A) 21 B) 7 C) 12 D) 50
A) 128 B) 16 C) 32 D) 64 |