At the beginning of the year, the billionaire announced that the Neuralink company had installed a brain implant in a person for the first time.
In the future people will stop using mobile phonesconsiders the American billionaire and entrepreneur Elon Musk.
“In the future there will be no mobile phones, but Neuralinks“Musk wrote this Sunday on his X account, responding to the publication of another user who had asked his subscribers the question of whether they would install the Neuralink interface in their brain to let mental activity control the mobile.
In late January, Musk announced that the first human had received a Neuralink brain implant and was recovering well. “Initial results demonstrate neuronal spike detection promising“, explained the billionaire at that time through X.
The brain implant aims to be the basis to help paralyzed patients move their prostheses through mental activity. Likewise, it would be used to treat epilepsy, Parkinson’s or help patients who have lost their speech or hearing. The microchip, called Telepathy, identifies the groups of neurons that begin to activate when the person wants to move their limbs and is also capable of deciphering words to dictate or write them, according to the scientists.
Although Neuralink, founded in 2016, has been criticized after the deaths of several monkeys in its preliminary experiments, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the green light in May 2023 to to carry out its first clinical trials in humans.
