[SECProto]

One speaker is a professor from UCSF who studied the brain's processing of motor signals. He explicitly credited Musk for having the right vision and the long term planning, and that's why he left his position after 16 years to come work with Neuralink.

No one credits Musk for solving bugs with the software on his products, or creating these brain-computer interfaces. But he can assemble the team to do, and motivate them to keep moving and progressing pretty aggressive schedules. And he frequently gives credit to his team (and doesn't sit there patting himself on the back).

[kranner]

> And he frequently gives credit to his team (and doesn't sit there patting himself on the back).

Yes, the list of authors on the whitepaper they released is "Elon Musk & Neuralink". I guess his team should be thankful.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6204648-Neuralink-Wh...

[SECProto]

As the other commenters said, that's not a research paper. Here is a link to an actual research paper where (at least some of) the authors work for neuralink.

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(18)30993-0

[buboard]

thats a white paper , not the research paper (which is what ppl will read). You can also read it the other way around: He wanted to credit the entire Neuralink team, without claiming to be part if it or leading it

[kranner]

It would have read that way if the author list had simply said 'Neuralink'. He is definitely positioning himself as the leader here.

[frisco]

BioArxiv required at least one human author. We suggested this author list to him and, honestly, we just think it’s awesome.

[buboard]

Actually, the leader is usually the last author. The first author is usually the student doing the gruntwork

[awwstn]

Fred Wilson has a blog post where he outlines the role of a CEO like this:

>A CEO does only three things. Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders. Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Makes sure there is always enough cash in the bank.

Based on everything we saw in the Neuralink livestream, it seems like Elon is nailing all three of these. Doesn't mean he deserves all the credit, but it mean he's doing his job.

[cma]

> He explicitly credited Musk for having the right vision and the long term planning, and that's why he left his position after 16 years to come work with Neuralink.

How do we know that's why, vs his estimation of Musk being the right kind of showman to get a lot of investment.

[SECProto]

> How do we know that's why, vs his estimation of Musk being the right kind of showman to get a lot of investment.

Because it is what he explicitly said. As I pointed out in my parent comment.

Of course I'm sure access to capital plays a role. Otherwise it's just someone with a good idea and no money. A meh idea but lots of money also wouldn't attract these kinds of people.

[cma]

What people explicitly say is their reasoning isn't necessarily their reasoning; especially in an investor/recruiting hype presentation.