Neuralink is a neurotechnology company that founded by Elon Musk in 2016. The goal of their neuralink project is to build an ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine-interface (BMI) to connect humans and computers.
So, what is brain-machine interface (BMI)?
What if we can connect our brain directly to a computer and control it without even touching it? A brain-machine interface is a device that can capture signals going through our neurons and translate those signals to a digital signal and is capable of control external devices without even touching.
Well, several companies try to make these BMIs and some companies made these BMIs but bit unsuccessful. What is special about Neuralink is, It’s the first chip that directly links into the human brain with the hard drive of a physical computer, without a wire or cable. They try to build wireless and low-cost brain machines.
What will the future look like?
The very first thing that comes to your mind when you are thinking about technology in the next 20 to 50 years is maybe flying cars or a world full of robots. But Neuralink founder Elon Musk said that development might one day become a real threat to the safety of humanity. His biggest concern about the future is the threat of Artificial Intelligence.
Developed countries use Ai for Military, Health care, Aviation, and even make ai robots nowadays. So, it’s fair to think that these developments might end up with a threat one day
how do we face these threats? What’s the solution? We already know Artificial intelligence systems are faster, better, intelligent, and efficient than the human brain when it comes to learning things and all. So, we might need to be smarter than technology. How do we do that?
That’s why we need Neuralink. According to Elon Musk, Humans receive and send out data and information. Information that receives is called input and information that sends out is called output. For example, think about our eyes and ears. Our eyes acquire a huge amount of information like colors, perspective, objects, and much more all at the same time. Using ears, we take audio inputs like sound and frequencies. But we don’t send the output as much as we receive.
However, technology has given us all a bigger output. So, as Elon says that if we physically merge humans with AI, we will be able to have more control over technology. Planting a bunch of Neuralink chips in our skull will give us super intelligence.
Superintelligence is much more than just programming machines to do certain things.
We can program this chip to learn how to do something. For example, if we want to learn another language, we only have to give a goal, it will do everything automatically. Think that we will be able to use any technological devices that connect wirelessly without even directly accessing them, people will learn things instantly.
So, someday in the future people will have super learning, super memory, super retention, and super recall. It will change our lives the way we communicate, the way the internet has connected the world, In the way airplanes have allowed us to travel, In the way, medicine has cured disease! Rather than flying cars robots, people will also change to a whole new advanced generation that we can’t even think now
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Amazing.
Thanks!