Musk's brain-computer interface technology really needs to be transferred from animals to humans to start the process of comprehensive commercial application. In the first half of this year, Euro link, a brain-computer interface company founded by Musk, released a new video of 3 minutes and 28 seconds, in which a nine-year-old monkey played electronic table tennis with his mind. The monkey's skull has been implanted with a chip, which can be charged wirelessly, and there is nothing unusual about the monkey's appearance. At present, this new research achievement uses the 0.9 version of Neurolink equipment.
So what is link brain-computer interface technology?
Specifically, it is through small surgical robots, such as minimally invasive eye surgery. Punch a hole in the brain painlessly, quickly implant a chip in the brain, read brain waves in real time, transmit wireless signals to the outside world, and control this sensor with a mobile phone. The device has a diameter of 23 mm and a thickness of 8 mm, which is about the size of a coin. It is implanted in the human skull and connected with the human brain. After implantation, this small coin can transmit brainwave data wirelessly, allowing real-time transmission between brains. Different from before, this time it is wireless transmission. Connecting wires within one centimeter of the device can obtain real-time signals in the cerebral cortex. Bluetooth connection with mobile phone, so how can this chip be implanted in the brain? Implanted by V2 surgical robot, a small skull was removed, and a neural connection device was installed after electrodes and wires were implanted to fill the vacancy of the skull.
The whole process is completed within one hour, and you can leave the hospital on the day of operation. You don't need general anesthesia. As long as it is handled properly, intraoperative bleeding can be avoided. There is only a small scar on the brain after operation. Bluetooth connection has passed FDA certification for one hour. This device will officially enter the human body. This is a landmark technological breakthrough, which will completely change the interaction between human beings and machines, which will change human beings themselves and human society. The thunder of science and technology is brewing, and a storm is paving the way. Maybe you don't know what this technology will bring us.
There are four main points. First, after this technology is realized, human beings can control it without talking. They just want you to wake up one morning. As long as your mind moves, you can open it, silently give instructions, and the coffee machine will automatically heat your coffee.
The essence of this brain-brain interaction is the activity of neuron groups, unlike the ambiguity of language and words, and it is a spiritual god without information distortion. Fourth, transplant memory. After the realization of this technology, we can have a lot of knowledge and skills in a short time, and it is the research focus in this field to obtain super-power memory transplantation that ordinary people can't have.
Now, scientists have discovered the memory code of the hippocampus of the brain, started to try to back up the memory with the chip, and then transplanted the chip into another brain to realize the memory transplantation. The experiment was successful in monkeys. In other words, if you don't know English, German, French and other languages, by transplanting this chip into your brain, you are likely to have a lot of memories in this area out of thin air, and you may have mastered five or six foreign languages when you wake up.
The ultimate goal of this technology is to transmit a large amount of information and data to the brain and upload the consciousness of the brain to the computer through the brain-computer interface technology, which may realize the immortality of human consciousness and memory in the computer world. If the experiment is successful, a person's body will die in the future, but his soul can be stored in another system or even transferred to other bodies.
You are not mistaken. The eternal life that mankind has been seeking in history may be realized. This is incredible, but various scientific and technological advances in reality have brought us closer to this goal. In any case, this is a brain-opening thing.