Neuralink advances with second brain implant, Musk lays out ambitious goals

ELON MUSK
NEURALINK FOUNDER
“We feel pretty confident that in the next year or two, someone with a Neuralink implant would be able to outperform a pro gamer because the reaction time would be faster.”

JACK AYLMER

THIS BOLD PREDICTION FROM NEURALINK FOUNDER ELON MUSK COMES AS THE COMPANY MARKS ANOTHER MILESTONE WITH ITS SECOND SUCCESSFUL BRAIN IMPLANT IN A PATIENT WITH SPINAL CORD INJURIES.

THE COMPANY’S AIM? TO ENABLE PEOPLE TO CONTROL DIGITAL DEVICES PURELY THROUGH THOUGHT.

ALTHOUGH HE KEPT DETAILS SPARSE, MUSK REVEALED THAT THIS PATIENT, LIKE THE FIRST WHO WAS PARALYZED IN A DIVING ACCIDENT, IS SEEING PROMISING RESULTS.

THE FIRST HUMAN RECIPIENT OF THE NEURALINK CHIP, A QUADRIPLEGIC, CAN NOW PLAY VIDEO GAMES JUST BY USING HIS MIND.

NOLAND ARBAUGH
FIRST NEURALINK PATIENT
“Me trying to move a body part um and then that being mapped um in some sort of like machine learning algorithm to be able to um identify like my brain signals and then take that and give me cursor control that all kind of made sense to me I don’t know like all the in ins and outs of it but I was like there are still signals in my brain firing they just can’t get through because there’s like a gap in my spinal cord and so they just they can’t get all the way down and back up but they’re still there.”

JACK AYLMER
MUSK HOPES TO EXPAND NEURALINK BEYOND REPAIRING NEURON DAMAGE TO ENHANCING AI-HUMAN INTERACTIONS.

HE BELIEVES FUTURE ADVANCEMENTS COULD INCLUDE ‘AUGMENTATION’ FOR INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT NEUROLOGICAL ISSUES, POTENTIALLY OFFERING SUPERHUMAN ABILITIES SUCH AS IMPROVED VISION ACROSS DIFFERENT SPECTRUMS.

BUT THESE IDEAS RAISE SERIOUS MEDICAL AND ETHICAL QUESTIONS OVER NOT JUST THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF IMPLANTING SUCH DEVICES, BUT ALSO ISSUES OF PRIVACY, CONSENT, AND POTENTIAL MISUSE.

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