Neuralink’s chip will let you stream music directly into your brain

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink is working on a chip that will help establish a direct connection between a machine and chip planted inside the brain.

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Elon Musk's Neuralink chip 'will allow users to stream music directly into their brains' (pixabay)
Elon Musk’s AI firm Neuralink is developing a brain-computer interface that will allow one to stream music directly to their brain.

Responding to a computer scientist Austin Howard on Twitter, Musk confirmed that the Neuralink technology will enable users to listen to music directly from their chips.

Musk’s comment comes shortly after he invited people with expertise in mobile devices and wearables to join Neuralink.

“If you’ve solved hard problems with phones/ wearables (sealing, signal processing, inductive charging, power management, etc.), please consider working at [Neuralink],” he tweeted.




He also stressed the need for solving high-volume, high-reliability, and low-cost production problems. According to Musk, the technology could solve a lot of brain/spine injuries and is ultimately essential for AI symbiosis.

Neuralink had showcased a brain-on-chip last year. Aimed at users suffering from paralysis and brain disorders, the chip contains tiny threads that help perform certain tasks.

The company claimed that these threads are long-lasting and could potentially replace the current generation of unwieldy brain-machine interfaces. The company had planned to conduct human trials this year.

The chip can be controlled through an application on the iPhone. Called N1 sensor, it can be paired with a USB port. The setup includes as many as 96 threads with each thread being smaller than the human hair.

That said, Musk and Neuralink are going to announce an update on the brain-computer interface technology next month.

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[jamahir]

@padamchen @ps3linux @Zibago @fitpOsitive @Hamartia Antidote

From a related article, how safe and secure does the idea sound ?

The company is seeking the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to start clinical trials on humans in 2020. The technology has a module that sits outside the head and wirelessly receives information from "threads" embedded in the brain.

Controlled by an iPhone app, the chip called "N1 sensor" with just a USB port coming out can have as many as 3,072 electrodes per array distributed across 96 "threads" -- each "thread" smaller that the tiniest human hair.

The chip which will be wireless in the future can read, transmit high-volume data and amplify signals from the brain. The aim is to drill four 8mm holes into patients' skulls and insert the "threads" each of the size between 4 and 6 micrometre -- about one-third the diameter of a human hair.

Currently, there is a robot to do the brain surgery which, according to a research paper released by Neuralink, has performed surgeries on animals and successfully placed the "threads".

"This has the potential to solve several brain-related diseases. The idea is to understand and treat brain disorders, preserve and enhance your own brain and create a well-aligned future," Musk told the audience at an event here late Tuesday.

A staunch critic of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Musk said that long-term goal is to find a way to "achieve a sort of symbiosis with AI but that is not a mandatory thing. This is something you can choose to have if you want".

"With a high-bandwidth brain-machine interface, I think we can actually help scores of patients," said the Tesla founder who also said he is looking to hire more talent in Neuralink.

According to Max Hodak, President of Neuralink, he wasn't originally sure "this technology was a good idea" but Musk convinced him.

"We didn't want any connectors or wires coming through the skin. It had to be something that would last for a longer period of time, not something that you'd have to take out after two-three years; it had to have practical bandwidth," said Hodak.

Founded as a medical research company in 2016, Neuralink has hired several high-profile neuroscientists from various universities.

The company is focused on creating devices resembling tiny sewing machines that can be implanted in the human brain - to improve memory or more direct interfacing with computing devices.

 

[padamchen]

@padamchen @ps3linux @Zibago @fitpOsitive @Hamartia Antidote

From a related article, how safe and secure does the idea sound ?

Very very bad idea man.

I've had a close friend die of GBM recently.

Cheers, Doc

 

[jamahir]

Very very bad idea man.

I've had a close friend die of GBM recently.

Cheers, Doc

So you think the material of those "threads" will induce cancers or the fact of those holes into the skull bringing in outside dust, sweat etc ?

How about jamming the signals coming into the proposed wireless interface ? Or data from the interface blending confusingly with the data from nature's interfaces ( eyes, ears etc ) ?

 

[padamchen]

So you think the material of those "threads" will induce cancers or the fact of those holes into the skull bringing in outside dust, sweat etc ?

How about jamming the signals coming into the proposed wireless interface ? Or data from the interface blending confusingly with the data from nature's interfaces ( eyes, ears etc ) ?

Stay away from the head bro.

And the balls.

Cheers, Doc

 

[fitpOsitive]

@padamchen @ps3linux @Zibago @fitpOsitive @Hamartia Antidote

From a related article, how safe and secure does the idea sound ?

Apart from this project, here is one of my imagination pieces:
Soon, companies might develop some chips, that will control neurotransmitters and serums in humans. Thus replacing all medicine.
These chips will take data from human body and adjust certain bodily processes automatically. This will not only contribute to overall health, but also to ease patients health experience. This one chip system will also suggest humans what foods they should eat and what foods they should avoid in some days of year.
This trend will increase, and to an extent that every human will be fitted with this AI chip. This chip or system will take Updates regularly.
One day, a global company will buy this technology and own all shares, and thus start to issue regular updates to these systems.
And one day, to save money, that company will hire a less competent engineer, who will issue an update, that will be having a bug.
And that bug my friend, will kill majority of humanity.
It's just my imagination. Read it, forget it. Don't take it serious.

 

[ps3linux]

@padamchen @ps3linux @Zibago @fitpOsitive @Hamartia Antidote

From a related article, how safe and secure does the idea sound ?

as is the case with tech 1st gen and 2nd gen will create their own problems and side effects, it will be the third gen which will have less issues.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

@padamchen @ps3linux @Zibago @fitpOsitive @Hamartia Antidote

From a related article, how safe and secure does the idea sound ?

I'd rather not have brain surgery for a chip.
And as the above poster said I'll add I always wait for Windows SP2 to come out before upgrading.

 

[Azadkashmir]

kill switch.

 

[jamahir]

I'll add I always wait for Windows SP2 to come out before upgrading.