Elon Musk presenting the Neuralink master plan

…from high-density electrodes in the brain to rapid evolution of our extended phenotype. It is heady stuff.

As an investor in the company, I am delighted to see Elon Musk and team reveal the details for the first time last night.

Here are some highlights:

• Short intro video

• The unplanned unveil that they already have a monkey-computer interface working

• Neuralink White Paper

• The full presentation

and some bookmarks:
1:35:14 It is not going to be like suddenly Neuralink will have this incredible neural lace, and start taking over people’s brains, okay, it’ll take a long time. [this is a reference to Iain Banks’ Surface Detail, the book that inspired us]
• 2:21:00 On-chip spike detection; stimulation on every channel.
• 2:24:45 20,000 samples per second, 10bit resolution, 200 Mbps of data for each of the 1,024 channels on the chip
• 2:25:40 On-chip algorithms compress the data by 200 times
• 2:26:45 The current 1,024-channel N1 chip consumes 6.6µW power; 4x5mm silicon die
• 2:41:10 Potentially rich visual feedback for the blind
• 2:55:35 A monkey has been able to control a computer with his brain
• 2:57:40 It would make sense for us to make more of the robots and provide the chips to academia to further the science

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