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sl8

(13,748 posts)
Sun Jul 14, 2019, 12:52 PM Jul 2019

We Might Finally Find Out What Elon Musk's Neuralink Has Been Up To

From https://gizmodo.com/we-might-finally-find-out-what-elon-musks-neuralink-has-1836326594

We Might Finally Find Out What Elon Musk's Neuralink Has Been Up To

Catie Keck
Friday 8:50pm

Neuralink, the super-secretive neuroscience company co-founded by Elon Musk to develop “ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers,” has evidently decided to show some of its hand.

In a rare tweet from the Neuralink account on Twitter this week, the company announced that it will be hosting an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, July 16 to “share a bit about what we’ve been working on the last two years.” The event will be live-streamed, the company said, but it also included a link to an application to attend in person.

The online form requests information about the applicant’s work or education background and a link to their LinkedIn profile. The company tweeted that it “reserved a few seats for the internet.”

Since Neuralink launched in 2017, information about its work and progress has been mostly shielded from coverage, though Gizmodo reported last year that Neuralink had sought to open an animal testing facility in San Francisco and that it was also funding primate research at the California National Primate Research Center at UC Davis.

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We Might Finally Find Out What Elon Musk's Neuralink Has Been Up To (Original Post) sl8 Jul 2019 OP
Elon Musk is attempting to communicate with chimpanzees jberryhill Jul 2019 #1
"In a rare tweet from the Neuralink account on Twitter this week" - it's alive!!! n/t PoliticAverse Jul 2019 #2
Sorry, Elon. I'm not quite ready to "jack in" to your matrix. MineralMan Jul 2019 #3
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
1. Elon Musk is attempting to communicate with chimpanzees
Sun Jul 14, 2019, 01:15 PM
Jul 2019

The company estimates that by 2025, they find something that wants to communicate with him.
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