Elon Musk Wants To Link Human Brains To AI With Neuralink To Help With Brain Injuries And Improve Communication
Elon Musk has been working on a human-computer brain interface called Neuralink, aiming to link human brains to artificial intelligence.
Neuralink aims to hook up the human brain to AI through micron-sized devices and the potential applications hold great promise. For instance, AI could serve as an extension of the human brain and help with certain brain injuries stemming from a stroke, cancer lesions, or other health conditions.
As an entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk has plenty of ambitious projects in the works but Neuralink might take the cake. Wait But Why explains more about Neuralink in a detailed report, so here’s the deal.
Musk has confirmed that he’ll be the CEO of Neuralink as well, so he will be in charge of three separate companies. Neuralink aims to enable higher-bandwidth connections between computers and human brains, which could translate to a whole new level of synergy.
The goal is to bring micron-sized devices to market by 2020 and treat brain injuries and their systems, which could even include paralysis or memory loss. The next step would be to develop a new way to link human brains to each other, allowing people to communicate directly without having to resort to low-bandwidth solutions such as talking or typing.
Among the main ideas is that linking AI to human brains is not about turning people into cyborgs, because they already are. It’s about improving and upgrading people from “primitive, low-bandwidth cyborgs to modern high-bandwidth cyborgs.”
Since we already spend a significant part of our daily lives in the digital world, upgrading to a higher-bandwidth connection to that world makes sense, and that’s what Musk envisions.
“You’re already digitally superhuman. The thing that would change is the interface-having a high-bandwidth interface to your digital enhancements,” Musk explains, as cited by Wait But Why.
