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Saturday, August 29, 2020

Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup unveils pig with computer chip in its brain

Title:
Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup unveils pig with computer chip in its brain

Author:
Tina Bellon

Published:
Global News, 28 August 2020
https://globalnews.ca/news/7304984/elon-musk-neuroscience-pig-computer-chip/

From the article:
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk‘s neuroscience startup Neuralink on Friday unveiled a pig that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months, demonstrating an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of implant.

Co-founded by Musk in 2016, San Francisco-based Neuralink aims to implant wireless brain-computer interfaces that include thousands of electrodes in the most complex human organ to help cure neurological conditions like Alzheimer’s, dementia and spinal cord injuries and ultimately fuse humankind with artificial intelligence.