Elon Musk: brain-hacking plans
NeuraLink, a company set up by Elon Musk to explore ways to connect the human brain to a computer interface, has applied to US regulators to start trialing its device on humans.
Merging with AI
The device the firm has developed consists of a tiny probe containing more than 3,000 electrodes attached to flexible threads – thinner than a human hair – which can then monitor the activity of 1,000 neurons.
The advantage of this system, according to the firm, is that it would be able to target very specific areas of the brain, which would make it surgically safer.
NeuraLink did not explain how the system translated brain activity or how the device was able to stimulate brain cells.
But he said, for those who choose it, the system would ultimately allow for “symbiosis with artificial intelligence”.