Elon Musk to begin testing technology that creates a link between human brains and computers
Futurist entrepreneur Elon Musk late Tuesday revealed his secretive Neuralink start-up is making progress on an interface linking brains with computers and said they hope to begin testing on people next year.
Musk and members of the Neuralink team laid out progress they have made on their mission at an event held in San Francisco to recruit talent in software, robotics, neuroscience and more."Achieve a sort of symbiosis with artificial intelligence." "They are tiny electrodes and the robot is delicately implanting them," Musk said, noting there could be thousands of the electrodes connected to a brain.The chip will communicate wirelessly with an earpiece, which relays information to a smartphone application, according to Neuralink.
An early focus of the team is using the technology to address brain diseases and paralysis, but the longer aim is to make implants so safe, reliable and easy that they could be elective surgery options for people seeking to enhance their brains with computing power, according to a neurosurgeon on the Neuralink team.
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