No one can say Elon Musk isn't ambitious. The founder and CEO of Tesla also owns the company for Space Exploration, (Space Exploration Technologies Corp) commonly known as SpaceX. He is also a visionary and does not hesitate to put the stamp on everything, from renewable sources energy even on high-speed public transport.
But it seems that the Mars colonization is not enough.
Now Elon Musk thinks that by implanting tiny electrodes into the brain he could keep the consciousness alive even if the body is dead.
In essence, the Elon Musk allegedly preparing the ground for humans to one day upload their thoughts, memories and collective experiences in one computer through a Neural network technology. Neural technology and specifically Neural lace technology is still new, but Musk's ultimate goal is to better interface between humans and machines in features such as our voice, touch and orientation control.
People learned to play with one of his keyboards iPhone rather fast, but imagine if we had a direct connection to the device's CPU. This is Musk's vision in a nutshell for how people of the future will interact with their devices.
According to Elon Musk, the change should be done soon so that people do not become inferior beings than AIs.
While the Elon Musk has not yet made any official announcement, has already begun teasing the company.
First with tweets (like this and this), and then with new hires at Neuralink Corp., which sounds like it comes from a sci-fi movie. The Wall Street Journal confirmed the existence of the company through one of its founding members, Max Hodak. Hodak previously founded Transcriptic, a robotic lab startup.
Neuralink made its first hires: Vanessa Tolosa, an engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and an expert in flexible electrodes, Phillip Sabes, a professor at the University of California and an expert on how the brain controls movement, and Timothy Gardner, a professor at Boston University, gained a reputation for applying electrodes to birds and studying how they chirp.
Ultimately Neuralink wants to change the way we interact with the devices by linking our minds to the engines we use most: cars, mobile devices, or even smart objects in our smart home. At present, however, people close to the company report that the first products will be rather advanced implants designed to treat brain conditions such as epilepsy or depression.
