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Elon Musk has been working on a Neuralink, a human-computer brain interface company, in whatever spare moments he has between running Tesla and also running SpaceX. Neuralink\u2019s ultimate aim may actually be the most ambitious of all three of his companies, surprisingly, and a new exploration of the foundational ideas behind Neuralink on Wait But Why\u00a0<\/a>goes deep within what Musk hopes to achieve by creating better, higher-bandwidth connections between our brains and computers.<\/p>\n Musk has confirmed that he will indeed occupy the CEO role at Neuralink, which means he\u2019ll be the CEO of three separate companies. But Neuralink\u2019s goals definitely sound the most science fictional of all three of his ventures, which is saying something considering Musk\u2019s SpaceX is all about making humans an intergalactic colonial species.<\/p>\n Basically, Musk seems to want to achieve a communications leap equivalent in impact to when humans came up with language \u2013 this proved an incredibly efficient way to convey thoughts socially at the time, but what Neuralink aims to do is increase that efficiency by multiple factors of magnitude. Person-to-person, Musk\u2019s vision would enable direct \u201cuncompressed\u201d communication of concepts between people, instead of having to effectively \u201ccompress\u201d your original thought by translating it into language, and then having the other party \u201cdecompress\u201d the package you send them linguistically, which is always a lossy process.<\/p>\n Neuralink\u2019s tech would also be able to help humans keep pace with the rapid advances in AI, and would achieve this by basically integrating AI with human consciousness. Neuralink\u2019s tech would enable human use of AI as just an additional faculty \u2013 like our sense of selves or other higher in-brain thought faculties. Making it possible to connect with such high bandwith directly into the brain would allow us to integrate cloud-based AI computing within our selves in a way that\u2019s indistinguishable from our core selves, Musk proposes, much like how most people would now find it difficult to separate their statements and expressions in language from the parts of the brain that generate them.<\/p>\n This tech is still far away from any kind of broad commercial application \u2013 maybe farther than a SpaceX trip to Mars. Musk says that it\u2019s probably going to be at least \u201ceight to 10 years\u201d before tech the company produces can be used by someone without a disability. Neuralink is aiming to create therapeutic applications of its tech first, which will likely help as it seeks the necessary regulatory approvals for human trials.<\/p>\n Musk taking on a third CEO role is bound to raise eyebrows among his company\u2019s investors, but Neuralink\u2019s mission is in keeping with the aim of his other two companies: All three focus on solving problems that present what Musk would term existential threats \u2013 Neuralink\u2019s agenda of countering AI not least among them.<\/p>\n Featured Image: Sebastian Kaulitzki<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/shutterstock_51531376.jpg?w=680\")
Elon Musk has been working on a Neuralink, a human-computer brain interface company, in whatever spare moments he has between running Tesla and also running SpaceX. Neuralink’s ultimate aim may actually be the most ambitious of all three of his companies, surprisingly, and a new exploration of the foundational ideas behind Neuralink on Wait But Why\u00a0goes deep within what Musk hopes to… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/img><\/a>
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