Neuralink Cleared To Test Brain Implants In US

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Neuralink got permission to test brain implants in people. The company is owned by Elon Musk. The US regulators gave the approval to Neuralink on Thursday.

Blog post from May 26, 2023 at 3:08am was updated on the same day at 2:15pm.

Neuralink got permission from the FDA for its clinical study. The company is happy with this step. Their technology aims to connect brains with computers directly.

Neuralink says they got FDA approval for their first human clinical study. They're excited about it. The clinical trial recruitment is not open yet.

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Neuralink wants to let people's brains talk to computers. Elon Musk talked about this during a presentation in December. The company is getting ready for its first human implant. They want to make sure it works before putting it in a person.

Start-up Neuralink demonstrated prototypes the size of a coin implanted in monkeys' skulls. Monkeys played basic video games with the implant or moved a cursor on a screen. Pigs have also been used to test the technology.

Scientists used a surgical robot to put a Neuralink disk in the brain. They inserted the wires carefully. The disk records nerve activity and sends it wirelessly to a smartphone. This is what Musk says. The disk fits in your skull and is hidden by hair.

Musk wants to use implants to help people who lost their vision and mobility. The company hopes to help people who can't use their muscles well. The implants could help them use their phone better than someone with working hands.

He said it's possible to restore full body function to someone with a severed spinal cord. Musk's goal is to prevent AI from intellectually overwhelming humans. Synchron is also working on a brain-machine interface and implanted it in a person in July.

The Neuralink team made a list of things they want to achieve. They want to help the paralyzed move again and the blind to see again. They also want to make telepathy possible. They want to let people save their memories for later or put them in new bodies.

Musk has started a new company focused on advanced AI. He thinks that Tesla will make significant progress in self-driving technology.

Musk thinks connecting human minds with machines is very important. Without it, AI could be so much better than humans that we would be like pets.

Professionals and scholars are wary of his idea to combine minds with advanced computer technology in a symbiotic manner.

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