Mysterious Neuralink Chip Could Make You Hear Things That Were Impossible to Hear Before
Elon Musk's Mysterious
Neuralink Chip Could Make You Hear Things That Were Impossible to Hear Before
1 August 2020, 1:34 am EDT By Nhx T. Tech Times
The mysterious Neuralink chip
was previously in the headlines when the founder of the company, Elon Musk,
said that the chip will be able to stream
music straight into the wearer's brain--and now, the tech CEO has
revealed more details about it.
Hear Beyond Frequencies and
Amplitudes
In a report by Independent,
Musk revealed that the chip will allow the wearer to hear things that they
weren't able to hear before as it was out of a human's hearing range, meaning
the Neuralink chip can be used to "extend range of hearing beyond normal
frequencies and amplitudes."
Additionally, and perhaps
even more interesting and exciting, is that the mysterious chip will apparently
be able to help restore movement for people with a fully severed spinal cord.
If that proves to be true, it
could help millions of people who have had spinal injuries and were unable to
move since then, providing the best and perhaps the only cure available on the
market.
Elon Musk founded the company
back in 2016, but until now, the CEO has only made one major presentation about
how the technology they are developing will work.
Ultimately, the company's
goal is to create a direct link between the brain and a computer.
They will be able to do this
by using a "sewing machine-like" device that will "sew"
threads to the implanted brain chip, which would then connect to a single USB-C
cable that enables "full-bandwidth data streaming" to the brain.
This is based on the research
paper that the company's scientists have published last year.
Furthermore, the company's
CEO plans to enhance the chip's capabilities and allow mankind to compete with
artificial intelligence.
Nevertheless, their first
iterations of the Neuralink chip is to help people with neurological issues and
brain disorders like Parkinson's and depression and anxiety.
As of now, Musk has only been
sharing snippets of the Neuralink chip's prowess through a series of tweet, but
he is planning on holding an event on August 28 that will hopefully talk more
about the mysterious chip and will finally provide the public with more
information on its features and the technology behind it.
The Goal to Overcome AI
Besides the chip's capability
to stream music straight to our brain, it apparently could help regulate
hormone levels of the wearer and provide "enhanced abilities," such
as relief from anxiety and greater reasoning skills.
Through the mysterious chip,
Musk believes humanity could overcome AI.
He had always been vocal
about his fear that humanity could be wiped out or overcome by artificial
intelligence in a theory known as the Singularity.
In an interview with
the New
York Times, Musk predicted that AI could overtake humans in the next five
years based on the current trends, but he also said that it "doesn't mean
that everything goes to hell in five years. It just means that things get
unstable or weird.
"My assessment about why
AI is overlooked by very smart people is that very smart people do not think a
computer can ever be as smart as they are," he said. "And this is
hubris and obviously false. We are headed toward a situation where AI is vastly
smarter than humans and I think that time frame is less than five years from
now."
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