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Billionaire Elon Musk reported that one of his companies, Neuralink, will implant a device in a human brain within six months that would allow communication with a computer.
The interface, explained the owner of Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX, would allow a person to communicate directly with computers through their thoughts: “I think we have submitted most of our documentation to the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) and we estimate that probably in about six months we should be able to have our first Neuralink in a human”, he explained in a presentation of the company.
Elon Musk launched Neuralink for more than five years with the aim of developing technologies that can improve the connection between humans and computers through the implantation of brain chips. It has already shown some progress. In the video we tell it. https://t.co/uoUIvsrJkE
— CNN en Español (@CNNEE) December 1, 2022
“We have been working hard to get ready for our first human (implant), and obviously we want to be extremely careful and make sure it will work well before we put a device in a human,” he added.
Monkeys playing video games
Musk is known for making ambitious predictions about his companies, and several of them have not come true. For example, in July 800, he promised that Neuralink could perform its first human tests in 2022.
The prototypes, the size of a coin, have been implanted and tested in monkey skulls. The company showed to several of these mon os “playing” video games or moving a cursor on a screen through his Neuralink implant.
Neuralink has also been harshly questioned for being responsible of the death of 54 of these monkeys during these experiments.
An aid for people with reduced mobility
Musk said the company would try to use the implants to restore vision and mobility in humans: “Initially, we would enable someone who has almost no ability to operate their muscles… and we would allow them to operate their phone faster than someone who has hands that work”, he stressed.
“As miraculous as it may seem, we are sure that it is possible to return the functionality of the whole body to someone who have the spinal cord sectioned,” he added.
Beyond the potential to treat neurological diseases, Musk’s ultimate goal is ensure that humans are not intellectually overwhelmed by artificial intelligence.
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