The Blubber

Per Bloomberg

Aside from Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, the CEO's other company, Neuralink held an event with a huge announcement to the world. In six months, Musk's brain-chip-implant company plans to start implanting on humans.

Some people have heavily misunderstood Neuralink due to the complexity of its functions. With a wide range of possibilities, Musk narrows down on some of its ultimate goals.

In the recent Neuralink event, Musk said they are confident restoring "full-body functionality to someone who has a severed spinal cord." The co-founder of Neuralink said that they are confident that people who haven't seen before could see with the help of the implant.

Another key ability that Neuralink is expected to offer is being able to communicate via thoughts. To demonstrate, they used a monkey with a screen in front of it, showing how the animal was capable of "telepathically typing" on the screen.

A year earlier, Neuralink also used a monkey with a chip in its skull in footage showing how it was able to telepathically play video games, per BBC. It was explained that the monkey sent brain signals wirelessly through the implanted chip.

This particular Neuralink benefit is called the brain-computer interface or BCI and is designed to help those with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or people suffering from stroke aftereffects. With the help of the implant, the technology should enable these people to communicate with thoughts alone.

Musk has been a long-time critic of AI, even warning of a Terminator-like apocalypse, per CNBC. But despite his criticisms, the Neuralink co-founder also developed a humanoid robot prototype called "Tesla Bot," which was announced during Tesla's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Day in 2021.

Musk showed off the humanoid robot prototype a year later during the 2022 Tesla AI Day. During the event, the Tesla CEO discussed how AI could advance its Full Self-Driving technology.

Displaying confidence in Neuralink, Musk said he would have one installed on himself when the chip is ready, per another article by CNBC.

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