Thanks to Elon Musk, the man with a chip to read the mind in his brain

It may seem like a science fiction that owns a chip in your brain that can turn your thoughts into computer commands – but is a reality for Noland Arbaugh.

In January 2024 – Eight years later, paralyzed – a 30-year-old child, the United States was the first person to receive such a device from the Neuralink.

This was not the first such chip – a handful of other companies also developed and implanted.

However, Noland says that the important thing is neither him or musk, but science.

He knew the risks of what he did, but I would help, “if it could be” good or bad. “

“If everything was working, I could help the Neuralink participant,” he said.

“If something terrible was, I knew they would learn from it.”

The Noland from Arizona was paralyzed under the shoulders in the diving accident in 2016.

His injuries were so fierce, he was afraid to re-learn, work or even play the game.

“Just there is no control, privacy and it’s hard,” he said.

“You need to learn that you have to trust other people for everything.”

Neuralink Chip restores the previous independence by allowing him to manage a computer with his mind.

Known as a brain computer interface (BCI), people think that people think to move and move on a screen, it works by discovering small electrical impulses and imagining them as a cursor movement.

The work of scientists in a few decades is a complicated topic.

Inevitably, the participation of Elon Mushwalks is included in the technology and NIRAND arbaugh – headlines.

Neuralink helped attract a large number of investments – as well as checking the safety and importance of extremely invasive procedure.

When Noland’s implant is declared, Experts have taken this as a “significant stageAlso warning that he will actually charge – especially the compatibility of Musk on “Creating a propaganda for his company.”

Musk was Cavey in the public in time, just type in a social media post: “Preliminary results promise to be detected by Neuron Spike.”

In fact, the billionaire, who speaks before and after and after the operation of Noland, was more optimistic.

“I think he was excited to start work.”

Nevertheless, he stresses that Neuralink is more than the owner and claims that he did not consider “an elon a musk device”.

Whether the rest of the world is in this way – Given the role of an increasingly controversial role in the US government – remains to be seen.

However, it does not affect the device’s life of Noland.

When you wake up from the operation that installed the device, he said he could manage a cursor on a screen by thinking about walking his fingers first.

“He did not know what I was waiting for – so much Sci-Fi said.

But after seeing the neurons in a screen, the exciting Neuralink employees were surrounded by Neuralink employees – “all sorts of sinks”, “all sorts of sinks” can manage his computer with their thoughts.

And – better – the ability to use the implant over time now grew up to the point where chess and video games can play.

“I play the game” he said – he was something he had to leave if he was disabled.

“Now my friends shouldn’t be really impossible, but that’s all.”

NOLAND is a strong demonstration of technique’s potential to change life, but there may be shortcomings.

“One of the main problems is privacy,” said Anil Seth, University of Neurology, Professor of Sussex University.

“So if we export our brain activity (…), we can do what we do, but we think and feel what we think and feel,” he said.

“Once you’ve got access to items inside your head, it’s really no other obstacle for personal privacy.”

But these are not worried to Noland – instead, he wants to see more progress than what chips can do.

He told the BBC that the device was finally allowed to control a wheelchair or a futuristic humanoid robot.

The construction has never been smooth sailing, even with technology in a more limited condition.

At a time, a problem with the device caused a computer management when partially separated from his brain.

“It really was to deactivate,” he said.

“Again I didn’t know I could use Neuralink.”

The connection was repaired – and was later improved – when the engineers program corrected the program, but the technology has shown a concern often voiced by experts on the restrictions.

Neuralink is just one of the many companies that explore how to hit our brain strength.

Synchronous, motor neurone is a company in such a firm to help people with neurone disease, requires less invasive surgery for the implant.

Instead of demanding an open brain operation, a person was mounted on the raven vascular in the neck, and then he moved his brain through blood vascular.

Like Neuralink, the device connects to the motor region of the brain.

“Someone thinks of hitting the hitting or thinking fingers,” said Chief Technology Officer Riki Bannerjee.

“It can create what we call digital motor accesses by taking these differences.”

This speech is currently becoming computer signals used by 10 people.

The BBC’s first person’s first person’s first person to use the world’s first person’s first person with the surname is the first person.

Mark, it allowed him to strike almost in the remote places – to go for a walk between the mountains in New Zealand in Australia.

“In the future, I can see the way in a world that this technology can really do, it really makes a difference for someone who has or any paralysis.”

However, there is a warning for NOALDink chip for Noland – he agreed to be a part of a study that installed it in six years, and then it is less clear to the future.

Whatever happens to him, it can simply scratch the surface of its experience becomes a reality one day.

“We know very little about the brain, and it allows you to learn more,” he said.

Additional report by Yasmin Morgan-Griffiths.