The company specialized in neurotechnology continues to take steps to try to improve the lives of people with disabilities
It may seem that we give too much importance to each achievement that the Neuralink company achieves, but its purpose is truly admirable and it is worth stopping to appreciate what it is already achieving. Obviously, we are not talking about brain-machine connections like those we have seen in the movies nor are we talking about those fungi capable of infecting insect brains. We talk about Neuralink and the controlling devices with your mind.
The step by step of experimentation in Neuralink
There are several means of communication, as is the case of the information published by the Reuters news agencywho claim that Elon Musk would have confirmed that the first patient with the interface Neuralink He would already be showing abilities that would allow him move a mouse without using your hands.
We already showed you a few days ago the publication of the company of Elon Musk on the social network announced the first implant made in a human being and how promising results were already beginning to show. It seems, therefore, that the patient continues to progress favorably.
The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well.
Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2024
The information It still comes to us in dribs and drabs, but it seems that in a recent interview by Elon in what are known as spaces in its social network, the head of Neuralink would have assured that:
Progress is good and the patient appears to have recovered without any effects that we are aware of. He can control the mouse and move the mouse around the screen simply by thinking about it.
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— Neuralink (@neuralink) November 22, 2023
Elon explains a little more in detail what will be the next steps to take, both by the patient and by the Neuralink team that monitors their progress, which includes introducing increasingly complex tasks. Elon states that:
We are trying to get as many button presses as possible through thought. So what we’re working on right now is: if you can move your mouse left, mouse right, mouse down, mouse up. So we are trying to make progress in this aspect. But, overall, it looks very good.
We know what the robot in charge of performing the surgery to introduce the implant is like, what results it has previously had with chimpanzees that had some type of disability and how several subjects will be in charge of testing the Neuralink brain-machine interface, although still we have many questions left to resolve. And it seems that we won’t take too long in having the first answers.
Alternative name Elon Reeve Musk Birthdate 06-28-1971 (52 years old) place of birth Pretoria, South Africa Job Businessman