{"id":4748,"date":"2017-03-28T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2023-06-08T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T06:31:31","slug":"neuralink-the-new-brainchild-of-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rankwatch.com\/blog\/neuralink-the-new-brainchild-of-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuralink – The New “Brain”child of Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Neuralink<\/a><\/p>\n

Elon Musk has found the perfect addition to his line of work till date which includes SpaceX\u2019s trips to Mars<\/a> and Tesla\u2019s vast fleet of self-driving cars<\/a>. Neuralink – which uses technological augmentation to enhance the capabilities of the human brain. The official news was reported by Wall Street Journal\u2019s Rolfe Winkler<\/a> on Monday morning. Colonizing Mars to reduce the risk of human extinction was clearly not enough of a breakthrough, so in order to avoid the inevitable takeover of the Earth by machines, the billionaire entrepreneur wants to now merge human brains with computers through his new venture.<\/p>\n

\"Elon-musk\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Elon has very often talked about both the capabilities of the human brain as well as the probable future of Artificial Intelligence. In the Beneficial AI 2017 <\/a>conference, Elon Musk along with other great minds such as Sam Harris <\/a>(neuroscientist) and Demis Hassabis<\/a> (AI researcher) discussed Superintelligence. He believes that human \u201cinput\u201d is very high and our \u201coutput\u201d is limited by what he calls \u201cmeat sticks\u201d i.e our fingers. The solution of this, in his opinion, is to connect AI directly to our brain, thus making our system closer to that of a machine. Musk had also voiced his concern of a probable future for humans where we lose a large share of our labor market to AI, at the World Government Summit<\/a> 2017 in Dubai. Therefore the news of Neuralink does not come as a major surprise.<\/p>\n

A brain computer interface which helps humans in improving themselves and allows interaction with computers without the bandwidth challenges that come with the current input methods such as keyboards, mice, and trackpads is known as \u201cneural lace\u201d. Back in August 2016 even, Musk had responded to a tweet<\/a> about Neural Lace saying maybe there would be some kind of announcement in a few months.<\/p>\n

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@BelovedRevol<\/a> Making progress. Maybe something to announce in a few months. Have played all prior Deus Ex. Not this one yet.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n