All you need to know about Elon Musk's Neuralink - Raiden D'souza.

”The best way to predict the future is to create it” – Abraham Lincoln

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Elon musk is definitely trending from a long time and now is trending for his unusual baby name across all platforms. Elon is known for his companies like Tesla, Boring company and Space x. But his latest company Neuralink has come into the spotlight after appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast. So what exactly is this Neuralink and can it have the power to control our brains?

To understand Neuralink technically can be challenging but in simple language, it acts as a support system to the brain.

Neuralink is the most interesting and meaningful venture of Elon Musk till date although the hype isn’t much as it is less fascinating than other companies.

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What is Neuralink?

Neuralink began in 2016 under the guidance of Elon musk. The main aim of this company is to combine Ai systems along with the human brain by surgical implantation. Over the course of years, humans have edited changed the DNA and not only that we have embedded many systems/devices in our body

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How it works

The Neuralink is inserted in the skull by drilling a small hole which is a diameter thick then small threads are inserted to pick up electrical impulses to studies them accordingly and control those electrical impulses. Brains consist of billions of neurons, neurons form a network and talk to each other to synapses and they communicate using chemical signals called neurotransmitters, Everything we experience is life is transmitted by these signals to each other.

With such technology coming in place many medical problems can be solved to which there was no solution before.

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Its benefits

· The risk of getting harmed is minimal giving an example of heart monitors be applied in the body doesn’t cause much harm Elon said

· The goal of Neuralinkis to not create an army of cyborgs or let AI control the world it is to develop a much better way to heal the problems caused by the brains for eg the eyesight could be improved, a patient suffering from any kind of brain injury could be treated better

· Neuralink can be benefitting by a number of ways but the real threat what concerns more people is of AI harmful effects

Besides these, the Neuralink can completely change the world as we can just control computers or devices with our brains.

· Elon also claims that the brain could save up the memory as what happens in video games thus a person could not only visit what his 10-year-old life was but also could be programmed to change his religion or caste. The possibility for such is endless.

· If Neuralink is successful there will come a day in a few years that we would just need to think about switching the TV on and it would get on.

· Learning things will be much easier. Learning guitar and mastering it would generally take us a couple of years but this could be done in a matter of seconds.

· In recent test Elon musk claimed to have tested the Neuralink on a monkey who could control the computer with his mind.

The possibility is endless and the future is not far away, human trials will begin as soon in the year ending once FDA approves the operations.

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