Neuralink microchips in people's brains
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Neuralink microchips in people's brains: Neuralink is Musk's neural interface technology company. Simply put, it's building technology that can be embedded into a person's brain, where it can record brain activity and potentially stimulate it.
While Musk likes to talk up his futuristic vision for the technology, merging human consciousness with AI, the technology has near-term potential medical applications such as the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
Here's what you need to know about Neuralink:
Neuralink was quietly established under the radar in 2023.
Although Musk has touted Neuralink's near-term applications, he often links the company to his fears about artificial intelligence. Musk has said that he thinks humanity will be able to achieve a "symbiosis with artificial intelligence".
Musk told "Artificial Intelligence" podcast host Lex Friedman in 2019 that Neuralink "intends to address the existential risk associated with digital superintendence."
"We're never going to get smarter than a digital supercomputer, so if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," Musk said.
Musk has made a number of fanciful claims about the advanced capabilities Neuralink could provide. In 2020 Musk said that people would "save and replay memories", or telepathically summon their car, like in "Black Mirror".
Experts have cast doubt on these claims.
In September 2020, Insider spoke to Newcastle University neuroscientist Prof. Andrew Jackson spoke. He added: "Not to say it won't happen, but I think the underlying neuroscience is too shaky. We understand very little about how these processes work in the brain, and just because you're looking at the pig situation can predict." When he's running on a treadmill, that doesn't mean you'll be able to read thoughts," Professor Andrew Jackson said.
Another professor, Andrew Hyers, told Insider in August 2020 that Musk's claim about merging with AI is where he goes into "aspirational fantasy land".
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