Elon Musk-founded US company Neuralink has unveiled some of its brain interface technology as part of its goal to "achieve a symbiosis with AI". He later added “we are a brain in a vat, and that vat is our skull,” and so the goal is to read neural spikes from that brain. According to a white paper, the system includes flexible threads, finer than a human hair, implanted in the brain by robot. They're combined with a custom chip that "reads, cleans up, and amplifies" brain signals and will, eventually, be sent wirelessly to an N1 sensor embedded in the human body. The idea is for neural interfaces to help people who are paralyzed or have other neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease regain control over their bodies.
Elon Musk-founded US company Neuralink has unveiled some of its brain interface technology as part of its goal to "achieve a symbiosis with AI". According to a white paper, the system includes flexible threads, finer than a human hair, implanted in the brain by robot. They're combined with a custom chip that "reads, cleans up, and amplifies" brain signals and will, eventually, be sent wirelessly to an N1 sensor embedded in the human body. The idea is for neural interfaces to help people who are paralyzed or have other neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease regain control over their bodies.