Elon Musk wants your brain . Not content with conquering the outer space industry , solar baron , and the Internet , the SpaceX and Tesla CEO is now planning to meliorate our intellect .
Musk has utter before about this applied science , calledneural lacing . It ’s apparently an idea to implant electrode in our brain meld with artificial intelligence , and use this to increase our mental output . We could also get at the Internet or even pen and pass just by thinking .
concord to theWall Street Journal , Musk is now pressing ahead with these plan , having set up a troupe call Neuralink Corp. Details are few and far between at the moment , but they did negociate to reap a fleck of data from citizenry who are supposedly involved in the project .
“ Max Hodak , who suppose he is a ‘ member of the founding team , ’ confirmed the society ’s existence and Mr. Musk ’s engagement , ” said the WSJ . “ He described the ship’s company as ‘ embryonal ” and sound out plan are still in flux but decline to furnish additional detail . ”
Musk himself later confirmed the company ’s macrocosm , tweeting that an clause on Neuralink would be appearing on the websiteWait But Whyin the next week . Musk has turned to this site before to excuse his dream .
" I was give the lowdown about it earlier this calendar month and have been speedy - flame learnedness ever since , " said Tim Urban , who runs the site , in anupdate . " turn out the brainiac is offensively not dewy-eyed . "
In August , he also read he was “ making progression ” on the neuronic lace , with an promulgation in a few months . In January , he say there might be an announcementnext month(February ) too . So far we ’re yet to see either materialize .
Last year , at theRecode Code Conference , he gave us a bit more insight into what his plan might be . “ Your output level is so low , peculiarly on a phone , your two thumbs sort of tapping off , ” he sound out . “ This is laughably slow . Our input is much better because we have a high - bandwidth visual user interface to the brain , our centre take in a mint of information . ”
What ’s the point of all this ? Well , aside from the cool sci - fi face , this sort of technology could help treat things like Parkinson ’s and depression . But operating on a human brain is no mean feat . you’re able to be certain there will be plenty of disputation catch fire by whatever Musk has stargaze up .
We ’ll have to look and see what his ultimate plan is . But , in blondness , he ’s proved a lot of people wrong with recyclable rockets , electric car , and more . mayhap he ’s about to shake up another industriousness – or , more accurately , create an entirely new one .
