The Neuralink company, owned by the tycoon, assures that the product will be aimed at people who have lost the use of their limbs, allowing them to control their mobile phone or PC with their mind alone. Neuralink is being investigated in the experimental phase for the death of monkeys.
Company Neuralinkowned by the billionaire Elon Muskhas already implanted the first brain chip in a human, called a product Telepathywhich will initially be tested in people who have lost the use of their limbs.
“The first human received a Neuralink implant yesterday and is recovering well,” Musk wrote on the social network X. “The first results show promising detection of neural spikes.”
The function of the implant will be to ‘read’ brain activity to transmit commands that will help restore some seriously damaged brain functions after a heart attack or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which lead to serious damage to the ability to communicate. According to Musk, this innovative implant is “This allows you to control the phone or PCand through them almost every device, just by thinking”.
The initial customer base will be those who have lost the use of their limbs, Musck explained, adding: “Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a fast typist or an auctioneer. That’s the goal .”
Little else is known about telepathy, as well the identity and age of the person are unknown in which it is implanted.
Neuralink, Musk’s company that claims to have created the implant, is then investigated by US authorities the death of several monkeys in the experimental phase of these chips.
In 2021, Neuralink published a video on YouTube in which a monkey with a chip in its brain appeared to be playing a video game that it controlled from its head. Musk then assured that the monkey “literally plays the video game telepathically using a brain chip.”
A few months earlier, Neuralink successfully tested a chip in pigs that, implanted in the skull, could measure the animals’ brain activity.
Source: EITB
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