{"id":9240,"date":"2019-07-18T08:59:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T22:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=9240"},"modified":"2019-07-18T08:59:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T22:59:21","slug":"elon-musks-neuralink-wants-to-make-your-brain-usb-c-compatible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/elon-musks-neuralink-wants-to-make-your-brain-usb-c-compatible\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to make your brain USB-C compatible"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The goal is to eventually begin implanting devices in paralyzed humans, allowing them to control phones or computers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noble cause, ferkin’ freaky premise.<\/p>\n

Elon “hype-train<\/em>” Musk delivered a presentation of Neuralink’s research of pairing the brain with computers and electronics using “threads” embedded in the body.<\/p>\n

Each thread is between\u00a04 & 6 \u03bcm thick making it far smaller than a human hair. Musk proposed a number of these would be connected to the brain with a Neuralink doctor adding they’d like to do this using lasers instead of “drilling”. Eeek.<\/p>\n

The system, which hasn’t even begun the process of obtaining FDA approval, is being trailed with rats in an attempt to prove its stability. The image shown of a wired rat with a USB-C port protruding from it is quite disturbing and far from the nice hearing-aid-esque PR image used for the event.<\/p>\n

Of course that’s not the end-goal for humans. The USB-C port is likely to be replaced with some wireless connection, \u00a0but we’re far from that.<\/p>\n

For Musk, who’s actively spoken out against AI in the past, he sees Neuralink & their N1 sensor as a step forward in the advancement of humanity.<\/p>\n

“[I want] to achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence,\u201d<\/em> says Musk, touting that humans will be “left behind” and that instead he wants to work on tech that allows us to “merge with AI”.<\/p>\n

Source: Elon Musk unveils Neuralink\u2019s plans for brain-reading \u2018threads\u2019 – The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The goal is to eventually begin implanting devices in paralyzed humans, allowing them to control phones or computers.…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9242,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions\/9242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}