Speaking at a Wall Street Journal forum on December 8, 2021, Elon Musk announced that brain-computer interface devices are expected to be used in humans next year and will help quadriplegics regain full-body function. Musk said in a video interview during the conference, we implanted the device to a higher standard than the FDA requires, and I think we have the opportunity to restore full-body function to people with spinal cord injuries through NEW LINK, so that people who can't walk or can't use their arms can walk naturally again.
Musk's brain-computer interface technology is really going to move from animals to humans, starting the process of full commercial use. In the first half of this year, Musk founded the brain-computer interface company Euro link released a new video of three minutes and 28 seconds, a breakthrough demonstrated a nine-year-old monkey to play electronic ping-pong game with the mind, the monkey's skull was implanted with a chip, can be wirelessly recharged, the monkey's appearance does not see any abnormality. This new research utilizes the neural link device link version 0.9.
So what is link brain-computer interface technology?
Specifically, it's a small surgical robot that acts like a minimally invasive eye surgery. Painless perforation in the head, to the brain inside the rapid implantation of the chip, real-time reading of brain waves, external transmission of wireless signals, and you can use a cell phone to control this sensor. The device is 23 millimeters in diameter and eight millimeters thick, almost the size of a coin, and connects to the human brain after being implanted in the top part of people's skulls. After implantation, this small coin will be able to wirelessly transmit brainwave data, allowing real-time transmission capabilities between brains. Unlike before, this time the transmission is wireless. The wire is connected within one centimeter of the device, and real-time signals can be obtained in the cerebral cortex. With a Bluetooth connection to a cell phone, so how is this chip implanted in the brain? It is implanted via the V2 surgical robot, which removes a small piece of skull and installs the neural link device after implanting the electrodes and wires to fill in the gap in the skull.
The whole process is completed in an hour, and you can be discharged the same day as the surgery, with no general anesthesia, and the procedure can be bloodless as long as it's handled properly. After surgery, there is only a small scar on the head, Bluetooth connectivity one hour implantation has been certified by the FDA, this device will be the official entry into the human body, which can be called a milestone technological breakthroughs, it will completely change the way humans interact with machines, which will change the human self and human society. The thunder of technology is brewing and a storm is paving the way. Perhaps you don't know what this technology will bring us?
There are four main points, one, after the realization of this technology, human beings can not have to speak, as long as through a year can be controlled outside also want you to wake up one morning in the future, you just think of a move on the open, the heart of the silent instructions, the coffee machine began to automatically help you to heat up the coffee.
The essence of this brain-brain interaction with each other is the activity of neuronal groups, unlike the fuzzy language and words, he is a kind of no information distortion of the mind will be. Fourth, transplanted memories. When this technology is realized, it will allow us to have a large amount of knowledge and skills in a short period of time, and to obtain superpowers that ordinary human beings can not have memory transplantation is the focus of research in this field.
Now, scientists have discovered the memory code of the hippocampus of the brain, and began to try to use the chip to back up the memory, and then transplant the chip into another brain to realize memory transplantation. This experiment has been successful in monkeys. In other words, if you do not know English, German, French and other languages, through the chip transplanted into the brain, you will be able to out of thin air a lot of memory in this area, may wake up, you mastered five or six foreign languages.
The ultimate goal of this technology is to transmit a large amount of information and data to the brain through brain-computer interface technology, uploading the brain's consciousness to the computer, and possibly realizing the immortality of human consciousness and memory in the computer world. If the experiment is successful, in the future, although a person's body is dead, it is possible to store his soul into another system, and even transfer this soul to other bodies.
You read that right: the immortality that humans have been seeking for all of history might just be possible. It's incredible, but the reality of all the technological advances is that we're getting a little bit closer to that goal. Either way, it's a mind-boggling thing to think about.