Deep Dive on Neuralink: Controlling Computers With Your Mind

Neuralink is pursuing one of the most difficult frontiers in technology. The implications include reversing neurological disabilities, modulating circuits involved in...

The human brain receives data at ~1,000,000,000 bits per second. But it can act on and express only ~10 bits per second. This includes tasks like moving, thinking, and speaking. This is like being connected to fiber-optic internet, but only being able to respond through a 1990s dial-up modem. An upgrade is needed, especially in a world racing towards increasingly capable AI. In 2016, Elon Musk founded Neuralink to develop a scalable Brain-Computer Interface (BCI): a system that establishes a direct communication pathway between the brain’s electrical activity and an external device,…