Max Hodak, the president of Neuralink, a company that aims to connect the human brain with computers which was co-founded by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, possesses said he left the company a few weeks ago. Hodak did not provide any reason for his departure.
In one Publish on Twitter on Saturday, Hodak, who is also a co-founder of Neuralink, said he had learned “a ton” in the business and that there was still a “huge cheerleader ‘for that. Although Hodak didn’t reveal where he was going next, he did mention he was moving on to new things. In response to a comment, hWe seemed to strike out “Jurassic Park” as a possible option, a reference to his recent statement that Neuralink could probably build a real version from Steven Spielberg’s Dinosaur Clone Park.
“They wouldn’t be genetically authentic dinosaurs but,” Hodak declared on Twitter April 4, adding a man shrugging his shoulders. “Maybe 15 years of breeding + engineering to get some super exotic new species.”
Like someone who had nightmares about dinosaurs as a kid because of jurassic park, I say no thanks.
Launchd in 2017, Neuralink aims to use ultra-high bandwidth brain interfaces, or implantable chips, to connect the human brain with computers. Musk said a variety of uses for the product, to allow a paralyzed person to use a smartphone with their mind to allow paraplegics to walk again. Neuralink could also help humans achieve a “symbiosis” with artificial intelligence, according to Musk, keeping us on par with our cutting-edge technologies.
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Neuralink made headlines in April when he said he had successfully brought a monkey named Pager to playing video games Pong
with his mind and posted a video that apparently demonstrated this. The researchers had implanted a Neuralink on either side of the nine-year-old macaque monkey’s brain about six weeks before recording the video.
Before you learn to play Pong, the researchers taught Pager how to use a joystick, rewarding him with a banana smoothie delivered through a straw when he moved a cursor over an illuminated block on the screen. This exercise allowed Neuralink devices in his brain to record his activity via the more than 2,000 electrodes implanted in regions of the motor cortex, which coordinate hand and arm movements.
The data was then fed into a Neuralink decoder algorithm so that it could predict the monkey’s intended hand movements.. After a few minutes of calibration, the decoder understood Pager’s neural patterns well enough that the monkey no longer needed the joystick to move the cursor to the block. Pager could move it with his mind, the narrator of the video said. A demonstration of so-called MingPong ensued.
Monkeys aren’t the only ones with Neuralinks in their brains. The company is also testing its technology on pigs, although he has not published all pigs playing videos Pong. Musk said the Food and Drug Administration granted Neuralink “breakthrough device” status, a classification that accelerates the development, assessment and revision of medical studiesvices.
