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.
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The concept is called “neural lace,” and Musk discussed it at Recode’s Code Conference last year.
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.
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," he said on Twitter.