While some monkeys have developed the power to usestone tools , others have actuate on to playing video games thanks to a brain implant developed by Elon Musk ’s ship’s company , Neuralink . Speaking via the exclusive Clubhouse app , the SpaceX and Tesla CEO explain that the equipment enabled a simian to play secret plan using only its idea , before going on to hash out some of the direction in which the engineering science could be used in humans .
Neuralink is developing an interface that could allow people to interact with and control computers using nothing but their persuasion . The technology consists of a learning ability implant that can read the activeness of neurons thanks to a series of electrode and microscopical fibers . Last year , Musk demo a prototype of the gadget that had been insert into the brain of a pig shout out Gertrude , whose neuronic action was recorded and displayed on a screen .
While Gertrude ’s implant was telegraph , Musk says his team has now successfully created a wireless version of the machine , present a major step forward for the technology .
“ We ’ve already got a monkey with a wireless implant in its skull … who can playvideo gamesusing his thinker , ” he explained . “ One of the things we ’re endeavor to figure out is , can we have the imp play mind Pong with each other ? That would be reasonably cool . ”
plow concerns about the welfare of the brute , the technical school entrepreneur was quick to point out that the scamp “ reckon totally normal and happy . He does not look like an infelicitous imp , ” tally that “ you ca n’t even see where the nervous implant was put in … He ’s not uncomfortable and he does n’t look weird . ”
When pressed for more info on Neuralink , Musksaid that the primary purpose of the technology will be to enable people with mind or spinal injuries to insure automatonlike devices , though he believes it could one day allow human being to mix with political machine and germinate into bionic woman .
“ People are already a bionic woman , in that you already have a tertiary digital layer … in the form of your phones and computers , ” he explained . “ With a direct neuronal interface we can improve the bandwidth between your cortex and your digital tertiary layer . ”
He even go as far as to lay claim that the technology could lead to the creation of a “ save land ” in the brain so that when a person dies , their memories and personality could be uploaded into another person or a golem .
Naturally , all of this remains some way off , and for the meter being the implant is only being trialed in brute . However , in response to a request from a paralyzed Twitter user earlier this week , Musk tweeted that his caller is in discussions with the FDA and hopes to start testing Neuralink on human race later this year .
