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The announcement of Neuralinks mission statement comes after Musk claimed that AI-brain-chip could potentially be ready to be put into a human patient within a year in May.

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Think of humanity as a biological boot loader for digital superintelligence, Musk told Alibabas Jack Ma during the World AI Conference in Shanghai. A boot loader is a tiny piece of code without which a computer cant load a necessary feature for a computer to start up.

According to Musk, comparing human intelligence to AI is like comparing the difference between chimpanzees and humans. He believes that theres no doubt that AI will much much smarter than the smartest human. Advertisement

How Neuralink wants to change the worldUnlike AI solutions that have come before Neuralink, Musk wants to achieve this symbiosis with minimal invasion. The use of flexible threads is less likely to damage the brain than the materials currently used in brain-machine interfaces. These threads are thinner than a human hair.

Using threads also brings the possibility of being able to transfer a higher volume of data. The white paper Elon Musk & Neuralink claims that the proposed system could include as many as 3,072 electrodes per array distributed across 96 threads.Advertisement

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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em Elon Musk tweets out the mission statement for his AI-brain-chip Neuralink - Business Insider India