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