American billionaire Elon Musk on his social network page X The company Neuralink announced a brain implant that, according to the idea, could restore sight to blind people.
“Blindsight is Neuralink’s next product to Telepathy… We believe we can restore sight even if someone has never been sighted or born blind,” Musk wrote.
The entrepreneur explained that the device had already been tested on monkeys and, as he emphasized, the monkeys were not harmed during the experiments.
He also explained that the image resolution may initially be low “like the first Nintendo consoles”, but over time it is possible to reach normal human vision levels.
On January 31, it was learned that Neuralink made the first chip of the human brain. This is the first step in Elon Musk’s ambitious project to create a real brain-computer interface. So how unique is the chip his company created? What is the difference between the Neuralink implant and its competitors? How can paralyzed people be given the ability to walk? Is it possible to read thoughts with the help of electrodes? Material from socialbites.ca.
Previously Neuralink showed in the video A person with a broken brain.