Tesla Founder and CEO Elon Musk has launched a company Neuralink through which computers could merge with human brains, according to the reports of the Wall Street Journal. The company is focused on creating devices that can be implanted in the human brain, for helping human beings merge with software and keep pace with advancements in artificial intelligence.
However, Musk had not made any official statement yet, but Neuralink was registered in California as a medical research company. Also, he plans to fund it mostly by himself, said the Journal.
Neuralink is said to work on the “neural lace” technology. It will implant tiny brain electrodes that may one day upload and download thoughts. Elon has given some hints about the existence of Neuralink over the past six months or so.
He once declared to an open crowd in Dubai saying: “Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.”
He also tweeted back to one of his followers who was inquiring about the neural lace saying that the announcement will be probably be made in the next month.
The only objective of this research is to understand the human brain better and pioneer new surgery techniques, software methods, and implant devices that could make a consumer brain-computer interface a reality.