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Neuralink
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Net Worth
$158,000,000
Started in (City)
San Francisco
Started in (Country)
United States
Incorporation Date
01st December, 2016
Bankruptcy Date
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Founders
- Elon Musk
About
Neuralink is an American corporation inclined towards making a device that can be surgically implanted into the human brain individually and with it, the person will be able to communicate with machines and even control them. With Jared Birchall being the CEO and Max Hodak holding the position of President, it aims to help to innovate different cures relating to neuro problems with the examination of the electrical signs in the cerebrum. Neuralink was a stage set up and founded by Elon Musk with a part of inspiration from a science fiction concept known as "Neural Lace". Neuralink wants to find the best possible way to make this mind-man connection work without any disruption.
Beginning
Elon Musk, Ben Rapoport, Dongjin Seo, Max Hodak, Paul Merolla, Philip Sabes, Tim Gardner, Tim Hanson, and Vanessa Tolosahe laid the foundation of Neuralink in 2016, locating the headquarters in San Francisco. Its standard point depends on an extremely logical and anecdotal idea which says that they as a startup, would want to link the human brain directly to computers and other electronic devices, preferably via cybernetic implants allowing individuals mind to interface with devices and programs without any outer handling or access. It will unify human knowledge and consciousness with the better speed and capabilities to share data which is inherent in computer innovation.
In April 2017, the blog ’Wait But Why’ published about the plans of the company which brought them in limelight. Before that, they had been working but keeping it highly secretive. According to Elon’s reliance, it is said that brain to machine ports will play an integral role with utter importance in humanity's future.
Road to Success
With developing technologies all over the world, artificial intelligence plays a highly significant role in revolution. For a common man, Artificial intelligence (AI) can be defined as "The ability of a computer program or a machine to think and learn. It is a field of study which tries to make computers 'smart’." Discussing about AI organizations, Neuralink is viewed as extraordinary compared to other organization which also has high capability of bringing a change. It is believed that next evolutionary step beyond doubt, it will be a merger of human intelligence and Al, which Neuralink could make possible when it is combined with cybernetics, our difficulties relating to solving capabilities and physical capabilities could be massively enhanced with it .
Neuralink and its competitors like Emotiv, NeuroPro, BrainCo, Kernel and many other face the similar obstacles in their path to widespread success. However, Neuralink made a few Neuroscience companies take the back seat and become one of the leading firm in its industry. It has recruited the best of Neurosurgeon from around the worldwide, which encourages them to have a high ground. Neuralink is making inescapable and fundamental stride in future advancement on the grounds that without a doubt Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will reach human level by 2039 making the human brain address faster and with vast multitasking capabilities with help the chipset. In July 2019, Neuralink unveiled its new research which showcased small brain “threads" inserted in long lasting chip which will help bring change for betterment, it is considered to be usable at home with the potential to replace existing cumbersome devices and would be used as brain to machine ports without the dystopian along. Nevertheless, it aims to help incapacitated individuals to control gadgets and engage individuals with any caring cerebrum issue or any person who is specially challenged.
According to Wikipedia and a report from Bloomberg, since the commencement of the company , it has hired several high-profile neuroscientists from various universities and by July 2019, it had received $158 million in funding out of which $100 million was funded by Elon Musk. The company had a staff strength of about 90 employees in 2019.
The technology is still considered to be young at this stage and can have a bright future depending upon how well it is being received by the consumers. It is hoped that Neuralink will contribute with its cogent approach to change Artificial Intelligence (AI) which will bring greater benefits to human beings in different forms.
Challenges
Some people see AGI as a threat but if robotics and artificial intelligence are perfectly handled, there should not pose any form of existential threat to worry about. It is likely to be enhanced by either nanotechnology or a neural computer port of which Neuralink is an early example this would massively expand our potential and effectively merge humans and computer. However, we are known to the major limitation in defining any Artificial Intelligence. Musk and others founders consider the matter regarding the impact of artificial intelligence in the world in case that A.l. turns against humans race or will have an adverse effect or being “AI apocalypse” .
Nonetheless, the risk and obstacles do not lie only with the community as a whole but also questions the effects that a Brain surgery will leave upon any individual. There could be number of people who may suffer with partial paralysis due to spinal injury, stroke, and multiple sclerosis after the neurosurgery. The case would be worsened if electrode were to be used often as it causes the development of scar tissue that interferes with our ability to read neural activity.
Achievements
- In July 2020, according to Musk, Neuralink obtained a FDA breakthrough device designation which allows limited human testing under the FDA guidelines for medical devices.
CEOs
- Elon Musk