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Elon Musk to show off working brain-hacking device:
Elon Musk is due to demonstrate a working brain-to-machine interface as part of his ambitious plans to give people superhuman powers.
His brain-hacking company, Neuralink, applied to start human trials last year.
But Friday's demonstration will involve a robot and "neurons firing in real time", a series of tweets reveals.
The interface could allow people with neurological conditions to control phones or computers with their mind.
But the long-term ambition is to usher in an age of what Mr Musk calls "superhuman cognition".
People need to merge with artificial intelligence, he says, in part to avoid a scenario where AI becomes so powerful it destroys the human race.
[...] The device the company is developing consists of a tiny probe containing more than 3,000 electrodes attached to flexible threads thinner than a human hair, which can monitor the activity of 1,000 brain neurons.
The company has been working with monkey brains to its realize brain/computer interface.
(Score: 5, Informative) by NickM on Saturday August 29 2020, @01:43AM
The presentation was in 3 parts.
In the first part Musk nervously described the neuralink technology, he looked like a grad student presenting an article at conference.
In the second part they had 3 pigs on stage:
one normal happy pig,
one normal looking happy pig that had his neuralink removed
one neuralinked happy pig.
We saw the neural activity of 1024 brain regions of that pig represented as a spectrogram.
The third part was q&a. In that part Musk confirmed that enabling a paraplegic to play starcraft was a milestone goal. His team answered some additional questions then it ended.
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