AI? Elon Musk plans to stitch computer chips into brains

Industry Contributor 22 Jul 2019 - 1 min read

AI? Elon Musk plans to stitch computer chips into brains

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Elon Musk has broken cover on plans to embed computer chips and a ‘neural lace’ direct into people’s brains, outputting signals into machine readable code (Wired).

Key points:

Neuralink project has been underway two years, first reported byWall Street Journal
Aims to pick up signals from brain and translate to code
"We hope to have this aspirationally in a human patient by the end of next year” – Musk
“We can have the option of merging with AI … It will take a long time” – Musk

As marketers and agencies race for basic AI capability, Musk is raising the stakes, talking about telepathy between humans and interfacing with machines. It brings a new meaning to ‘direct-to-consumer’.

Given Musk’s cult following, finding a willing human lab rat is unlikely to be a challenge. Regulatory approval might be trickier.

As Wired concludes, this is all highly aspirational and Musk makes no bones about what he’s smoking. But this is a man who has put a car in space, pushed the automotive industry into a once in a century pivot, and commercialised flame throwers.

The internet of people may yet happen.