On 2022-11-30 Neuralink held a “Show and Tell” event to report on progress toward its goal (from the mission statement) to “Create a generalized I/O platform for the brain”. Elon Musk provided an overview of the company and its goals, then technical leaders explained the details of the technology and hardware being developed. This, like Tesla’s AI Day, is not a press event but primarily a recruiting venue where the company discloses its technology and goals in the hope of motivating those with the talent to achieve them to join the company. The entire event is two and a half hours including a question and answer session at the end.
If you don’t have the time to watch the whole thing, CNET has distilled highlights of the demonstrations to the following ten minute video.
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I have renamed this topic “Neuralink—Brain-Computer Interface”, to serve as the place for all things Neuralink and cyborg technology related.
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I am skeptical about the claimed ability to restore sight to those who are congenitally blind. Though my study was long ago and perhaps dated, one of the basic principles of CNS development was the necessity of specific sensory input to cause the structural development of the required pathways. In all the cases of which I was aware, their absence at birth was not later remediable. Later development was not possible as neuron potentiality decreased over time as development proceeded. Maybe one day genetic manipulations may permit this, but today it is fanciful at best.
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Here is the study brochure [PDF].
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