Elon's company Neuralink (Fitbit with remote control for the brain) is going to be bigger than Tesla, OpenAI and Paypal combined!!

• Neuralink is a company working on creating brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, which use tiny electrodes placed in the brain to read and interpret neural signals.
• The goal of Neuralink's technology is to allow people to achieve a "symbiosis with artificial intelligence."
• Neuralink has begun submitting paperwork for a human clinical trial to the Food and Drug Administration and hopes to implant a Neuralink device in a patient in six months.
• The first two intended applications for Neuralink's technology are to help people with paralysis use their digital devices and to restore vision in those who have lost their eyesight.
• Neuralink demonstrated the use of a surgical robot to insert electrode threads into a brain-like dummy. These threads both stimulate the brain and capture outgoing signals.
• BCIs are still considered experimental and none are commercially available. Only a few dozen people around the world have been outfitted with these interfaces as part of research studies.

Neuralink, the brain-computer interface (BCI) company founded by Elon Musk in 2016, has made significant progress in its efforts to merge human brains with artificial intelligence. During a recent "show and tell" event, the Neuralink team presented a range of updates to its technology and announced that it has begun submitting paperwork for a human clinical trial to the Food and Drug Administration. The company aims to implant a Neuralink device in a patient within the next six months.

According to Musk, the first two intended applications for Neuralink's technology will be to help people with paralysis use their digital devices and to restore vision in those who have lost their eyesight. While the presentation did not provide any evidence of vision restoration, it did include a video demonstration of how Neuralink's implant had been used to stimulate a visual sensation in a monkey's brain.

One of the most notable updates presented by Neuralink was the use of a surgical robot to insert electrode threads into a brain-like dummy. These threads, which are only a few red blood cells wide, both stimulate the brain and capture outgoing signals. The robot is able to insert the threads into the moving brain while avoiding blood vessels, making the process both precise and quick.

Brain-computer interfaces have been in development since the 1960s, but they remain experimental and are not yet commercially available. Only a few dozen people around the world have received BCI implants as part of research studies, which have allowed paralyzed individuals to translate thoughts into speech, regain sensation, and move a wheelchair. While the technology is still in its early stages, the advances demonstrated by Neuralink bring us one step closer to the "symbiosis with artificial intelligence" that Musk envisions.