![]() ![]() ![]() Whether Neuralink will eventually merge brains and Teslas is beside the point. Similar technology may one day help people with paralysis or brain disorders. Whenever Gertrude’s snout touched something, nerve cells in her brain fired electrical signals detected by an implanted device (signals shown as wavy lines on black). “You can’t argue with a guy who built his own electric car and sent it to orbit around Mars,” says Christof Koch, a neuroscientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. Some scientists called Gertrude’s introduction a slick publicity stunt, full of unachievable promises. Imagine being able to beckon our Teslas with our minds, Jedi-style. Future-minded entrepreneurs and researchers aim to listen in on our brains and perhaps even reshape thinking. But the ambitions of Musk and others to link humans with computers are shocking in their reach. Neuroscientists have been recording nerve cell activity from animals for decades. “In a lot of ways, it’s kind of like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires,” said Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, of the new technology. Those beeps were part of the big reveal on August 28 by Elon Musk’s company Neuralink. ![]() Each time the pig’s snout found a treat in a researcher’s hand, a musical jingle sounded, indicating activity in her snout-controlling nerve cells. Gertrude the pig rooted around a straw-filled pen, oblivious to the cameras and onlookers - and the 1,024 electrodes eavesdropping on her brain signals. ![]()
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