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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Implants Chip Into Brain Of First Human Subject

via Ben Shapiro
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Elon Musk’s company Neuralink has successfully implanted a brain chip into the first human subject, aiming to develop a brain-computer interface to help people with paralysis and other debilitating conditions.

The chip detects signals from neurons in the brain and sends the data to a Neuralink app, decoding it into actions.

The company hopes this breakthrough technology will assist paralyzed individuals and those with vision or hearing loss, with future potential to improve human interaction with artificial intelligence.

“Initial results show promising neuron spike detection,” Musk said.

“The first human patient will soon receive a Neuralink device. This ultimately has the potential to restore full body movement,” Musk said previously.

“In the long term, Neuralink hopes to play a role in AI … civilizational risk reduction by improving human to AI (and human to human) bandwidth by several orders of magnitude,” he said. “Imagine if Stephen Hawking had had this.”

Neuralink’s first clinical trial is open for people with limited hand mobility due to spinal cord injury or ALS.

Musk envisions the technology, called Telepathy, enabling control of devices through thought, particularly benefiting individuals who have lost the use of their limbs.

The first product “is called Telepathy,” which “enables control of your phone or computer, and through them almost any device, just by thinking,” Musk said.

“Initial users will be those who have lost the use of their limbs,” Musk said.

“Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer. That is the goal.”

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