“Control Things With Your Mind”: Elon Musk Lists Benefits As Company Implants Chip in Human Brain
- Neuralink, a tech company led by Elon Musk, has announced that it has successfully implanted a chip in a human brain
- This is one big leap forward for Elon Musk, who is working hard to connect human brains to computers
- The patient is said to be recovering well and is expected to be able to control a phone by just thinking about it
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The world's richest man, Elon Musk, has claimed his Neuralink company has successfully implanted one of its wireless brain chips in a human.
Musk announced this on Monday, January 29, 2024, via his x handle.
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Neuralink was founded by Elon Musk in 2017 to implant electrodes into people's brains to interpret signals and treat conditions such as paralysis, epilepsy, and Parkinson's disease.
Musk also said his device could help people with hearing and vision loss.
The first human implant completed
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Musk called the first Neuralink product Telepathy.
He said the Neuralink implant would enable people to control their phones or computers and, through them, almost any device just by thinking.
Musk's post reads:
“The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well. Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.
“Initial users will be those who have lost the use of their limbs. Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer. That is the goal."
How will the brain implant work?
The implant puts the chip and other electronics inside the user's skull, with wireless communications sending out brain signal data to a Neuralink app, which decodes them into actions and intents.
Charging is also done wirelessly. Neuralink has developed a bespoke surgical robot to perform the implant procedure.
Elon Musk's brain chips implanted in monkeys killed 15 out of 23 of them
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that 15 out of the 23 monkeys that carried Elon Musk's Neuralink brain chips have reportedly died.
The monkeys received the chips between 2017 and 2020, and the experiment was moving to humans as it was reportedly said the chips would be tested on humans anytime soon.
Business Insider and the New York Post report that the news came from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, an animal-rights group that pored through more than 700 pages of documents, vet records, and necropsy reports through public records at the university.
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