Neuralink
Let’s get the latest updates on Elon Musk’s futuristic brain implant company Neuralink Elon has been talking a lot lately about Neuralink and some of the applications he hopes this product will or won’t be capable of in the first decade of life.
The Chakra we know Elon has broadly promises that Neuralink ranges from helping people with spinal cord injuries to enabling telepathic communication to treating brain disease like Parkinson’s and allowing us to control devices with our thoughts. and even allows to merge human consciousness with artificial intelligence.
As we get closer to the first clinical human trials for Neuralink things are starting to get a little more clear about exactly what this brain computer interface technology will do and how it will help people, so let’s get back to 2022. Let’s talk about what’s up with Neuralink when recently asked if Neuralink was there.
Still on track for his first human test by the end of this year, Elon Musk just answered by saying yes which I think is a good sign, it seems whenever Elon answers suddenly like this, So that means what he’s saying for comparison at about the same time last year.
When asked about human trials of Neuralink, Elon wrote, “Well, we might be able to do preliminary human trials later this year, noticing the significant difference in those two answers.” While saying that this isn’t a science or anything, it’s worth mentioning that we also saw earlier this year that Neuralink was looking to hire both a director and a director.
The coordinator of clinical trials at job hosting Neuralink says the directors will work closely with some of the most innovative doctors and top engineers as well as Neuralink’s first clinical trial participants, we know that Neuralink has so far conducting its surgical trials.
In its 2020 performance the combination of monkeys and pigs showed us a group of pigs that had all received NeuraLink implants and in some cases even had to undergo the procedure to remove the implant, then in 2021 we were shown a monkey, One who could play video games without the need for a controller using only his brain.
Which was connected to two Neuralink implants, human trials with NeuraLink would clearly be a big step forward. Product Development Last year Elon wrote that Neuralink is working very hard to ensure implant safety and is in close communication with the FDA, during the first Neuralink events. has been.
Not meeting them in the same way that Tesla vehicles pass all crash safety requirements they actually score higher than any other car ever built, a quick shout out to our amazing discord community Want to give exactly what Neuralink will be able to do in its first phase of implementation.
It’s got a little hard to keep track of when Elon is talking about using this technique for literally every maniac. What is conceivable is that Neuralink would make language obsolete that would allow us to create digital backups of human brains that we could merge our consciousness with an artificial super intelligence.
Can become ultra enhanced cyborgs which is one of the new things recently talked about by Elon. One is treating morbid obesity with Neuralink, which he brought up during a live TED Talk interview, which isn’t even something we expect to hear, but it’s a claim that appears to be backed by some science. Happens, some studies have already been done.
Implants with brain implants in morbidly obese people continuously transmit electrical pulses to the hypothalamus region of the brain that is believed to increase appetite, so it’s still too soon to know whether that particular method actually works. but it will be much less invasive than other surgeries.
Which modifies a patient’s stomach in hopes of suppressing their appetite, Elon followed in a comment tweet writing that it is certainly physically possible to treat obesity through the brain. In the same post Elon wrote the concept. We are working on bridging the broken link between the brain and the body’s knots in the motor and sensory cortex.
Neuralink in the spinal cord should theoretically be able to restore whole body functionality which is one of the more practical implementations of the Neuralink technology that we are hoping to see is these electrical signals being transmitted to the brain by a Neuralink device. can be read in and then transmitted wirelessly via Bluetooth.
For a second Neuralink device that is implanted in a muscle group, where signals from the brain are delivered directly to the muscles, this type of precision treatment has previously been done with brain implants and muscle implants.
This has always required the patient to have a very cumbersome setup with wires running through their bodies to their brains and wires coming out of their skulls and into a computer. The real innovation of Neuralink is that it makes all this possible with very small implants. They connect wirelessly so you can see the patient and never know they have a brain implant.
Elon commented on this in another tweet, writing that this is an electronic slash mechanical slash software engineering problem for Neuralink devices that are similar in complexity level to smart watches that are not easy as well as surgical robots that use state-of-the-art CNC machines. Equals, so Neuralink has in common with an apple.
Look compared to any existing brain computer interface technology and this is only made possible by the autonomous robotic device that performs surgery that connects the electrode Neuralink device to the cerebral cortex, too small and fine to be sensed by human hands. Elon touched on this in response to being asked if Nerdling can treat tinnitus.
A permanent ringing in the ears, Elon wrote, could certainly be less than five years since current versions are Neuralink semi-generalized neural reed slashes, with about a thousand electrodes and tinnitus the right equipment is probably needed. Less than a thousand they added will a future generation of Neurlink increase the number of electrodes by several orders of magnitude.
That brings us back to setting more realistic expectations of what a Neuralink can and can’t do. Elon asked I lost a grandparent to Alzheimer’s, how Neuralink addresses the loss of memory in the human brain. Will do
Elon said that current-generation Neuralink can help to some degree, but that an advanced case of Alzheimer’s often involves macro degeneration of the brain, although Neuralink should theoretically be able to prevent localized brain damage from stroke or injury. The reason being that almost any lost functionality is able to be restored, because they cannot move 1000 electrodes.