Human brains to have wireless chip
very soon as Elon Musk’s Neuralink starts clinical trials
The company has been developing such
implantable brain-computer interfaces
for so long.
They have been
testing the new device on animals
and were waiting for approval from U.S. FDA for human trials
Neuralink has got the approval and the human
trial will begin within six months.
For the start, Musk is targeting on two applications
Restoring vision and improving muscle movement
in disabled people are those two targets
Musk said the newly developed
Neuralink device can restore vision
even if the person is born blind
However
Musk is not sure about the progress rate
and said, perhaps the progress will be slow though its exponential in theory
In the last public presentation, Musk talked about building
a brain chip for monkey
so that it can play games on its own
For humans, such devices will be helpful for
treating people with paralysis and brain diseases
like dementia
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Synchron
is another company like Neuralink that has already started studying the result of such devices on patients
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