The name of the implant, Telepathy, symbolizes its ambition to connect man and machine through thought.
Elon Musk announced Monday that the start-up Neuralink, which he co-founded in 2017, had placed its first brain implant on a patient on Sunday.
“The neural implant allows you to control, only with thought, your phone or your computer, and through them any device.
The priority users will be those who have lost the use of their limbs,” described the billionaire on X (ex-Twitter).
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And to take the example of an astrophysicist affected by a degenerative disease: “Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a fast typist or an auctioneer.
That's the point ".
In short, a man not only cared for, but enhanced, thanks to the computing power of the machine.
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