Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, is set to unveil a unique device on August 28, which is part of an amazing plan to give humans the power of superheroes.
Elon Musk's other company, Neuralink, is trying to connect the human brain and computer directly, and the technology is due to be tested on Friday (August 28), which will include a robot.
Elon Musk said in several Twitter messages that robots and "neurons firing" would be demonstrated in real time.
Live webcast of working @Neuralink device
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 26, 2020
Friday 3pm Pacific https://t.co/PouLbrGzFU
The technology aims to help people with brain and spinal cord injuries or birth defects control their phones or computers with their minds. But on a long-term basis, the technology aims to create a digital superintelligence layer, that is, to connect humans to artificial intelligence, which is astonishing because Elon Musk has in the past called artificial intelligence a threat to humanity. Have done
The company was founded in 2017 and last year claimed that a monkey was able to control a computer with its brain during experiments. The device is based on more than 3,000 electrodes that are attached to thin strands of human hair and can monitor 1,000 brain neurons.
The company has also developed a neurosurgical robot that it says can insert 192 electrodes into the brain every minute.
Jennifer Collinger, an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, said what Elon Musk is doing is a truly amazing addition to the field of medical technology.
"Neurallink has no shortage of resources and a team of other experts, including scientists, working towards a common goal, which provides the best chance of success," he said.
However, he said, "Despite these resources, the development of medical devices takes time and safety needs to be a top priority, so I think the process may take longer than they were told." '
Last year, Elon Musk said, "We will definitely try to create a complete brain-machine interface, and this technology will allow people to type 40 words a minute just by thinking."
On this occasion, he also expressed the expectation that by the end of 2019, it will be possible to experiment on a human patient, but apparently this did not happen. Elon Musk himself acknowledged that it could be difficult to get approval from the US Food and Drug Administration.
