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 energyeven in 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 on a 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 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 people do not become inferior beings than AIs.
While the Elon Musk has not yet made any official announcement, it has already begun teasing the company's.
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. 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 first hired Vanessa Tolosa, an engineer at Larence Livermore National Laboratory and flexible electrode specialist Phillip Sabes, a professor at the University of California and a specialist in how the brain controls movement, and Timothy Gardner, a professor at Boston University, where he gained fame when he applied electrodes to birds and studied how 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, κινητές συσκευές, ή ακόμα και έξυπνα αντικείμενα στο έξυπνο σπίτι μας. Προς το παρόν, όμως, άνθρωποι που είναι κοντά στην εταιρεία αναφέρουν ότι τα πρώτα προϊόντα θα είναι μάλλον προηγμένα εμφυτεύματα που έχουν σχεδιαστεί για τη θεραπεία παθήσεων του εγκεφάλου, όπως την επιληψία ή την κατάθλιψη.
