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