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Gertrude female pig
Billionaire Elon Musk unveiled a pig named “Gertrude” who had implanted a coin-sized computer chip in his brain.
“It’s like having a skull tracking device connected to it by little wires,” Musk said in a webcast.
He explained that such slides may help, in the future, in the treatment of conditions such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord injuries.
The company “Neuralink”, co-founded by Musk, submitted an application last year to start human trials.
In the long run, Musk aims to achieve what he describes as “superhuman cognition,” to counter the superiority of artificial intelligence that he believes can destroy the human race.
The female pig “Gertrude” was one of three pigs that participated in a pilot program broadcast online on Friday.
The therapist in his brain sent wireless signals, showing the presence of nervous activity in his nose when he was looking for food.
Musk said the original Neuralink device, which was unveiled a year ago, had been simplified and reduced in size.
He added: “It can be placed inside the skull. It can be under your hair without your knowledge.”
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The company, “Neuralink”, submitted an application last year to start human trials.
The device, “Neuralink”, founded in 2017, consists of a small sensor that contains more than 3,000 electrodes connected to flexible wires thinner than a human hair, and can monitor the activity of 1,000 nerve cells in the brain.
Before the webcast, Ari Benjamin of the Cording Lab at the University of Pennsylvania told BBC News that the real challenge for this technology could be complicating the human brain.
“Once they have the recordings, the Neuralink device will have to decode them and will one day be challenged with a lack of a basic understanding of how the brain works,” he added.
