This is a promise that should be treated with caution given the previous statements. But according to Elon Musk, his startup Neuralink will be ready to test the first connected device implant in the human brain within six months. This device, currently the size of a coin, should allow the human brain to communicate directly with computers through thought, without the need for an interface. “We obviously want to be very careful and make sure it’s going to work well, but we’ve submitted all our paperwork to the FDA (public health agency in the US, editor’s note) and we think within six months we’ll be able to put our first implant in the human brain“said the head of Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter and other startups during the presentation of the progress of the company Neuralink. “We are now confident that Neuralink’s device is ready for humans, so the timing depends on the FDA approval processThen he clarified on Twitter, a social network that he bought a month ago. In 2020, the FDA recognized the implant as “breakthrough device” (“scientific breakthrough”).
The billionaire has already made several risky predictions, particularly about the autonomy of Tesla electric cars. In July 2019, he estimated that Neuralink could conduct its first tests on individuals in 2020. So far, prototypes have been implanted in the skulls of pigs and monkeys. So few monkeys are capableplay” video games or “type:words on the screen by simply following the movement of the cursor on the screen.
On Wednesday, Elon Musk and Neuralink engineers also outlined recent advances in the creation of a robotic surgeon and other implants that would be inserted into the spinal cord or eyes to restore mobility or vision.
Other companies are working on controlling computers with the mind, such as Synchron, which announced in July that it had implemented the first brain-machine interface in the US.
In recent months, Elon Musk urged his employees to work faster. “We’ll all be dead before anything useful happenshe told the Neuralink team during the meeting, Bloomberg reports. The annual Neuralink conference is supposed to be used to create recruitment titles for various professionals.
Source: Le Figaro
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