Tech billionaire
Elon Musk said on Wednesday one of his companies would in
six months be able to implant a device into a human brain that would allow
communication with a computer.
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The interface, produced by Musk's start-up Neuralink, would allow the user
to communicate directly with computers through their thoughts, he said.
"We've submitted I think most of our paperwork to the FDA (US Food and
Drug Administration) and we think probably in about six months we should be
able to have our first Neuralink in a human," he said in a company
presentation.
"We've been working hard to be ready for our first human (implant), and
obviously we want to be extremely careful and certain that it will work well
before putting a device in a human," he said.
Musk -- who bought Twitter last month and also owns SpaceX, Tesla and
several other companies -- has been known to make ambitious predictions about
his companies, with several not becoming reality.
In July 2019, he vowed that Neuralink would be able to perform its first
tests on humans in 2020.
The prototypes, which are the size of a coin, have been implanted in the
skulls of monkeys.
At the Neuralink presentation, the company showed several monkeys
"playing" basic video games or moving a cursor on a screen through
their Neuralink implant.
Musk said the company would try to use the implants to restore vision and
mobility in humans.
"We would initially enable someone who has almost no ability to operate
their muscles... and enable them to operate their phone faster than someone who
has working hands," he said.
"As miraculous as it may sound, we are confident that it is possible to
restore full body functionality to someone who has a severed spinal cord,"
he said.
Beyond the potential to treat neurological diseases, Musk's ultimate goal is
to ensure that humans are not intellectually overwhelmed by artificial
intelligence, he said.
Other companies working on similar systems include Synchron, which announced
in July that it had implanted the first brain-machine interface in the United
States.
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