Oct 14, 2023
Elon Musk wants more bandwidth between people and machines. Do we need it?
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: computing, Elon Musk, neuroscience
Speeding up communication between humans is surprisingly tricky.
Last week, a post by Elon Musk on X (formerly known as Twitter) caught my eye. The entrepreneur claimed that sticking electrodes in people’s heads is going to lead to a huge increase in the rate of data transfer out of, and into, human brains.
The occasion of Musk’s post was the announcement by Neuralink, his brain-computer interface (BCI) company, that it was officially seeking the first volunteer to receive the “N1,” an implant comprising 1,024 electrodes able to listen in on brain neurons.