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's also a visionary and doesn't hesitate to put his stamp on everything from renewable 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 allegedly paves the way for people to one day be able to upload their thoughts, memories and collective experiences to a computer via a technologys Neural networks. 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, 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 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 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.
