Elon Musk's Neuralink Wants to Connect Our Brains to ComputersNot content with electric cars, launching rockets and trying to travel to Mars, Elon Musk also wants to add AI to our brains.
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Elon Musk本周在一遍你们的消息t another business venture in yet another futuristic field of research. He's given uselectric cars, a companydedicated to space exploration, is working onclean energy techand isbuilding a tunnel, but now he wants to connect our brains directly with computers.
Musk's latest venture is called Neuralink. It's a medical research company whose technology is called "neural lace." Very few details are known, but according toThe Wall Street Journal,神经花边将允许个人直接communicate with a computer without the need for a physical interface.
Long Neuralink piece coming out on@waitbutwhyin about a week. Difficult to dedicate the time, but existential risk is too high not to.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)March 28, 2017
As Musk's tweet suggests, we're set to hear a lot more about Neuralink next week from the websiteWait But Why.
The new venture is being privately funded by Musk and hopes to perfect neural lace for use by humans. What it boils down to is a series of electrodes implanted in our brain which then allows a wireless link to computers. Thoughts, and therefore information, can then be uploaded and downloaded as desired. It's a processBusiness Insiderdescribes as allowing "humans to achieve higher levels of cognitive function," and it would act like an AI layer within our brains.
It sounds as though neural lace would allow for the quick uploading of new information without the need to learn it (just like inThe Matrix, but without the physical link in your neck!). Achieving that also means figuring out how our brains store information so as to upload it in the correct format.
One key question that will hopefully get answered next week is: how many years will we be waiting to have neural lace installed? Are we talking less than a decade or multiple decades?
