No one can say that Elon Musk is not ambitious. Tesla's founder and CEO also has Space Exploration Technologies Corp., also known as SpaceX. He is also a visionary and does not hesitate to place the seal on everything from renewable sources of energy to 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 is supposed to prepare the ground for people to be able to raise their thoughts, memories and collective experiences one day through a Neural Network technology. Neural technology and specific Neural Lace technology are still new, but Musk's ultimate goal is to better connect people and machines to features such as voice, touch and orientation control.
People learned to play with an iPhone keyboard rather quickly, but imagine if we had a direct connection to the device's CPU. This is the vision of Musk, which in a few words concerns how people of the future interact with their devices.
According to Elon Musk, the change should be done soon so that humans do not become inferior to AI.
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 something out of a sci-fi movie. THE Wall Street Journal επιβεβαίωσε την ύπαρξη της εταιρείας μέσω ενός από τα ιδρυτικά μέλη της, του Max Hodak. Ο Hodak ίδρυσε στο παρελθόν την Transcriptic, μια startup providing robotic laboratory services.
Η Neuralink έκανε τις πρώτες της προσλήψεις με τους: Vanessa Tolosa, μηχανικός στο Larence Livermore National Laboratory και ειδικός σε ευέλικτα ηλεκτρόδια, το Phillip Sabes, καθηγητή στο Πανεπιστήμιο της California and an expert on how the brain controls movement, and Timothy Gardner, a professor at Boston University who gained fame when he applied electrodes to birds and studied the way they chirped.
Ultimately Neuralink wants to change the way we interact with devices by connecting our minds to the machines we use the most: cars, mobile devices, or even smart objects in our smart home. For now, though, people close to the company say the first products will likely be advanced implants designed to treat brain conditions such as epilepsy or depression.
