Elon Musk sponsors a shocking project that unites human brain with AI

According to The Wall Street Journal, Tesla CEO and SpaceX, billionaire Elon Musk is sponsoring a computer-related venture with a brain called Neuralink.

This project was built according to a research-manufacturing company model and is still in its first phase of formation. The project focuses on creating devices that can be implanted into the human brain , with the ultimate goal of helping people integrate with computer software and keep up with advances in artificial intelligence (AI ).

These improvements can improve memory or allow a more direct interface between the human brain and computer devices.

Mr. Musk hinted at the existence of Neuralink a few times in the past six months. Recently, Mr. Musk told a conference in Dubai, "Over time, I think maybe we will see the merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence."

He added: "Much of the bandwidth, the connection speed between the human brain and its digital version, especially the output".

On Twitter, Mr. Musk answered fans' questions about his progress related to the so-called "nerve thread". This is the science fiction term for a brain-computer interface that people can use to improve themselves.

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These types of brain-computer interface concepts exist today only in science fiction. In the field of medicine, electrodes and implants have been used to help improve the effects of Parkinson's disease, epilepsy and other degenerative diseases.

However, very few people on this planet have complex transplants placed inside their skulls, while the number of patients with basic stimulation devices is only tens of thousands.

This is partly because brain implants are extremely dangerous and invasive to operate on the human brain, and only those who have exhausted other medical options and accept to choose to undergo surgery such as a last resort.

Although dangerous and difficult to implement in current conditions, it is impossible to prevent the growing interest of Silicon Valley science and technology circles and futurists promoting progress. of these types of distant, fictional ideas.

Recently, Kernel, a start-up enterprise founded by co-founder of Braintree, Bryan Johnson, has funded the medical research of the University of Southern California to raise people's awareness.

With more than $ 100 million in grants from Johnson, the Kernel and a team of neuroscientists and software engineers are working hard to reverse the effects of neurodegenerative diseases with the ultimate goal of making Our brains are faster, smarter, better communication.

"We know if we can put a chip into the brain and release electrical signals, we will improve the symptoms of Parkinson's disease , " Mr. Johnson told The Verge in an interview late last year.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Neuralink was established as a medical research company in California (July) last July, to reinforce the idea that Musk will follow a research path similar to Johnson and the Kernel.