The first human Neuralink patient controlling a computer and playing chess just by thinking. He is paralyzed. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, …
Neuralink has officially implanted its first brain chip into an actual human. The person is recovering well and the device is detecting neuron spiking. Those who suffer from ALS or spinal cord injury are the people who should apply for device. The Neuralink mission is to create a generalized brain interface to restore autonomy to …
Sorkin interviewed Elon Musk. The most important points were: The Large Language Model AIs have all been trained on copyrighted data. We will reach ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence, AI able to do innovative science, discover new technology and perform innovative physics and be better than most people at nearly all things within 3 years). This …
In Tesla Earnings call, Elon Musk mentioned that Neuralink will be able to drive artificial arms and legs for amputees. He equated this to the $6 million man. It is also Star Trek Borg, which have the motto Resistance is Futile. Elon has the most entertaining earnings calls. Elon says it will be cheaper…the $60,000 …
Neuralink showed off its implantable device which is slightly larger than a quarter. They showed the device working in several monkeys and they showed the surgical robot that will be used to implant the device. They are working to repair spinal damage. The current experiments are to monitor and activate spinal activity in a pig. …
Neuralink is designing the Link to connect to thousands of neurons in the brain, so that it may one day be able to record the activity of these neurons, process these signals in real time, and translate intended movements directly into the control of an external device. As a first application of our technology, they …
Tesla CEO Elon Musk in an interview with WSJ’s Joanna Stern at the CEO Council Summit. The main highlights: Elon Musk does not know about anything special happening on December 9, 2021 The Cybertruck will be Tesla’s best product ever. It will have many new technological advances. It will be in volume production in 2023. …
A paper in Nature reports that a Braingate Brain Computer Interface (BCI) enabled a man paralyzed from the neck down to have his thoughts translated to text with 94% accuracy. An intracortical BCI tdecodes attempted handwriting movements from neural activity in the motor cortex and translates it to text in real-time, using a recurrent neural …
Elon Musk was interviewed about the future of humanity on Clubhouse. Here are some highlights: * Neuralink has a monkey with a wireless implant in their skull who can play video games using his mind * Every is already a cyborg. The smartphones and computers are an extra layer of capability. The communication rate is …
David Lee suggested creating a holding company called X to hold all of Elon’s major companies (Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company and Neuralink). Elon responded with a tweet that this seems like a good idea. Good idea — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 23, 2020 The mission of X holding company to ensure human survival and progress …
Neuralink will provide an update on their brain interface work in August and the expectation is that there will be progress on initial human trials. Elon Musk recently tweeted that the system could feed music directly into the brain. Neuralink last reported in 2019, that it had a sewing machine-like device capable of implanting thousands …