Entrepreneur Elon Musk is the man behind the car company Tesla, the inventor of PayPal and the genius behind Space X, Hyperloop and even more.
Now the billionaire inventor has launched a company called Neuralink to figure out how to connect the brain and computers, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The idea is to create tiny devices, like electrodes, that can be implanted in the brain to eventually merge the brain with a computer to help humans stay ahead of artificial intelligence.
The devices might help improve memory or allow for direct interfacing with computers, The Verge reported.
Elon Musk wants to connect computers to your brain so we can k...Elon Musk has started yet another company, Neuralink, which aims to make implants for the human brain that can wirelessly interface with a computer. The technology is called “neural lace.” Watch Musk discuss it at our Code conference last year.
Posted by Recode on Monday, March 27, 2017
The concept is called “neural lace,” and Musk discussed it at Recode’s Code Conference last year.
While the company has been described as being in its embryonic stage, Musk promised to release more information about it next week.
Long Neuralink piece coming out on @waitbutwhy in about a week. Difficult to dedicate the time, but existential risk is too high not to.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 28, 2017
"Long Neuralink piece coming out on @waitbutwhy in about a week. Difficult to dedicate the time, but existential risk is too high not to," he said on Twitter.
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