Guérir la cécité, la paralysie, la surdité et les maladies mentales, ce ne sont là que quelques-unes des applications que les interfaces électroniques cerveau-ordinateur vont un jour pouvoir réaliser selon Elon Musk et les employés de sa société de neurosciences Neuralink.
Comme le rapportent les articles ci-dessous, les premiers tests ont été réalisés sur les porcs et pourquoi pas dans un proche avenir passer à l’étape suivante: les humains.
A suivre et heureusement que le piratage de cette interface pour prendre contrôle du cerveau reste encore du domaine de la science-fiction.
On Friday, Elon Musk gave an update on what’s probably his third-most-prominent company: Neuralink. Neuralink had been pretty low profile (especially in comparison to Tesla and SpaceX) prior to this time last year, which is when Musk first went into detail about the company’s goals and progress.
The device the company is developing consists of a tiny probe containing more than 3,000 electrodes attached to flexible threads thinner than a human hair, which can monitor the activity of 1,000 brain neurons.
Rock-climb without fear. Play a symphony in your head. See radar with superhuman vision. Discover the nature of consciousness. Cure blindness, paralysis, deafness, and mental illness. Those are just a few of the applications that Elon Musk and employees at his four-year-old neuroscience company Neuralink believe electronic brain-computer interfaces will one day bring about.
