For the first time, Elon Musk’s secretive “Brain-Machine Interface” startup, Neuralink, revealed its progress in creating a wireless implantable device that can – theoretically – read your mind.
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Elon Musk founded the Neuralink startup in 2017 with the goal of staving off what he considers to be an “existential threat”: artificial intelligence (AI) surpassing human intelligence.
Neuralink says it has designed very small “threads (electrodes)” – smaller than a human hair – that can be injected into the brain to detect the activity of neurons.
It has also developed a robot to insert those threads in the brain, under the direction of a neurosurgeon.
The chip will communicate wirelessly with an earpiece, which relays information to a smartphone application.
For now, the goal is to let a person with the implants control a smartphone with thought, but the technology could eventually extend to other devices such as robotic arms.
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