This is what the future holds:
Elon Musk Has Created “Threads” to Weave a Computer Into Your Brain
"Elon Musk on Tuesday presented what he hailed as a “big” step forward in brain-machine interface technology, unveiling work by his Neuralink company that he said could address neurological disorders—and eventually be used to “achieve a kind of symbiosis with artificial intelligence.” “There’s an incredible amount we can do to solve brain disorders, damage, and this will occur quite slowly,” Musk said in a presentation Tuesday evening. “This will be a slow process where we’ll gradually increase the issues that we solve until ultimately we can do a full brain-machine interface.”
The “neural lace” Musk unveiled is a small device with thousands of electrodes connected by thin threads, which he said had been tested on a primate that was able to control a computer with its brain. “The technology described by Neuralink is exciting because it is significantly less invasive than prior work in this field,” Krittika D’Silva, an AI expert at NASA who attended the presentation, told the BBC. “The plans they describe will require many years of work to deal with technical and ethical challenges, but the technology could be a big step in working to alleviate certain serious medical conditions like epilepsy and Parkinson’s.” (As Musk put it, “It’s not like suddenly Neuralink will have this neural lace and take over people’s brain.”)
“If you’re trying to walk yourself toward human prosthetics, this is a more promising direction,” Tim Harris, a senior fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a developer of research-grade neural interfaces, added to the Wall Street Journal."
Elon Musk Has Created “Threads” to Weave a Computer Into Your Brain
"Elon Musk on Tuesday presented what he hailed as a “big” step forward in brain-machine interface technology, unveiling work by his Neuralink company that he said could address neurological disorders—and eventually be used to “achieve a kind of symbiosis with artificial intelligence.” “There’s an incredible amount we can do to solve brain disorders, damage, and this will occur quite slowly,” Musk said in a presentation Tuesday evening. “This will be a slow process where we’ll gradually increase the issues that we solve until ultimately we can do a full brain-machine interface.”
The “neural lace” Musk unveiled is a small device with thousands of electrodes connected by thin threads, which he said had been tested on a primate that was able to control a computer with its brain. “The technology described by Neuralink is exciting because it is significantly less invasive than prior work in this field,” Krittika D’Silva, an AI expert at NASA who attended the presentation, told the BBC. “The plans they describe will require many years of work to deal with technical and ethical challenges, but the technology could be a big step in working to alleviate certain serious medical conditions like epilepsy and Parkinson’s.” (As Musk put it, “It’s not like suddenly Neuralink will have this neural lace and take over people’s brain.”)
“If you’re trying to walk yourself toward human prosthetics, this is a more promising direction,” Tim Harris, a senior fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a developer of research-grade neural interfaces, added to the Wall Street Journal."
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