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Aug 29, 2020

Elon Musk unveils pig with chip in its brain

Posted by in categories: computing, Elon Musk, neuroscience

Gertrude the pig is a prototype of a brain-to-machine interface.

Aug 29, 2020

Elon Musk Neuralink Presentation: 4 Main Takeaways in 4 Minutes

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, neuroscience, transhumanism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ZJh8wfGVs&feature=youtu.be

Quick recap of Neuralink’s update event.


Han from WrySci HX goes over the main points of Elon Musk’s Neuralink Presentation. More below ↓↓↓

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Aug 29, 2020

Neuralink: Elon Musk’s entire brain chip presentation in 14 minutes (supercut)

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet, robotics/AI

This is a working proof of concept of the NeuralLace. It can detect limb motion and smell sensation via neural implants in the brain. So far it’s only been tested in pigs, but an early usecase might be a digital replacement for spinal cord injuries. But the real future goal about is getting to implant an internet enabled AI into your brain.


Elon Musk showed off Neuralink’s new implantable brain chip and demonstrated it working in real time on a pig.

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Aug 29, 2020

Neuralink: Elon Musk unveils pig he claims has computer implant in brain

Posted by in categories: computing, Elon Musk, neuroscience, sustainability

The tech entrepreneur Elon Musk on Friday showed off a pig whose brain he says has been implanted with a small computer.

“We have a healthy and happy pig, initially shy but obviously high energy and, you know, kind of loving life, and she’s had the implant for two months,” Musk said of Gertrude, the pig.

The billionaire entrepreneur, whose other companies include Tesla and SpaceX, presented during a live-stream event to recruit employees for his neuroscience startup Neuralink. He described Gertrude’s coin-sized implant as “a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires”.

Aug 29, 2020

Elon Musk’s Las Vegas Boring Company tunnels ‘only a few months away’ from operation

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel will be operational in “only a few months,” according to company frontman Elon Musk, who updated the project’s progress on August 28.

Musk, CEO of the Boring Company, set out to create a new source of transportation in high-traffic areas several years ago while living in Los Angeles. While LA has a private test tunnel in Hawthorne, California, near the Tesla Design Studio and SpaceX Headquarters, Musk wanted to expand upon the idea and move it to other cities.


Las Vegas needed a transportation solution to handle traffic on the Strip, where many of the visitors spend the majority of their time while visiting the Sin City. However, the Las Vegas Convention Center also desired an underground people mover, and the Boring Co. was more than happy to make a $52.5 million bid on the project, which was accepted.

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Aug 28, 2020

Elon Musk Says First Demo Of His Brain Chip Is Coming This Friday

Posted by in categories: computing, Elon Musk, media & arts, neuroscience

Elon Musk’s controversial ‘brain chip’ might be coming to us sooner than we first thought, with the technology entrepreneur promising a working demo by the end of this week.

The news comes a little over a month after Musk announced his latest start-up, Neuralink, was in the process of developing a brain-computer interface that allegedly has a life-changing range of benefits – including the ability to stream music straight into your brain.

Now, Neuralink, which has already received more than $158 million in funding, will be demonstrating a working device this coming Friday, August 28, at approximately 6.00pm ET (11.00pm BST).

Aug 28, 2020

Elon Musk is one step closer to connecting a computer to your brain

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Neuralink is building a brain-machine interface as well as a little robot that installs it into your skull.

Aug 28, 2020

Elon Musk promises demo of a working Neuralink device on Friday

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

Neuralink will demonstrate a working brain-machine interfacing device at 3pm PT (6pm ET) on Friday. Musk says a second-generation robot designed to attach the company’s technology to the brain will be unveiled.

Aug 27, 2020

The US military is trying to read minds

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, computing, Elon Musk, military, neuroscience

Elon Musk’s Neuralink will likely show off its design for a brain-computer interface Friday evening. The concept it unveiled last summer involves surgically implanting it into the brain to detect the activity of neurons. The US military also wants to develop a brain-computer interface, as we explain in this story from October. But here’s the kicker: no surgery required—and the device could be put on and taken off like a helmet or headband.


In August, three graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University were crammed together in a small, windowless basement lab, using a jury-rigged 3D printer frame to zap a slice of mouse brain with electricity.

The brain fragment, cut from the hippocampus, looked like a piece of thinly sliced garlic. It rested on a platform near the center of the contraption. A narrow tube bathed the slice in a solution of salt, glucose, and amino acids. This kept it alive, after a fashion: neurons in the slice continued to fire, allowing the experimenters to gather data. An array of electrodes beneath the slice delivered the electric zaps, while a syringe-like metal probe measured how the neurons reacted. Bright LED lamps illuminated the dish. The setup, to use the lab members’ lingo, was kind of hacky.

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Aug 26, 2020

Elon Musk to reveal mysterious chip that could stream music to your brain

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, media & arts, robotics/AI

He claims that humans risk being overtaken by AI within the next five years, and that AI could eventually view us in the same way we currently view house pets.

“I don’t love the idea of being a house cat, but what’s the solution?” he said in 2016, just months before he founded Neuralink. “I think one of the solutions that seems maybe the best is to add an AI layer.”