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Elon Musk wants to link your brain with computers
Elon Musk's Neuralink is aiming to bring to the market a product that helps with certain severe brain injuries.

Bengaluru - Could take eight to 10 years before this tech becomes usable, though

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Published: Fri 21 Apr 2017, 9:14 PM

Last updated: Fri 21 Apr 2017, 11:18 PM

Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk said his latest company Neuralink is working to link the human brain with a machine interface by creating micron-sized devices.
Neuralink is aiming to bring to the market a product that helps with certain severe brain injuries due to stroke, cancer lesion etc, in about four years, Musk said in an interview with website Wait But Why.
"If I were to communicate a concept to you, you would essentially engage in consensual telepathy," Musk said in the interview.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning will create computers so sophisticated and godlike that humans will need to implant "neural laces" in their brains to keep up, Musk said in a tech conference last year.
"There are a bunch of concepts in your head that then your brain has to try to compress into this incredibly low data rate called speech or typing," Musk said in the latest interview. "If you have two brain interfaces, you could actually do an uncompressed direct conceptual communication with another person."
The technology could take about eight to 10 years to become usable by people with no disability, which would depend heavily on regulatory approval timing and how well the devices work on people with disabilities, Musk was quoted as saying.


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