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Elon Musk is lauding the achievements of his Neuralink technology, calling it \u201cJesus-level technology.\u201d Neuralink is a brain implant technology that promises to give people suffering from severe physical limitations, such as quadriplegics, the ability to perform basic physical operations with their thoughts. Musk discussed using Neuralink to potentially restore sight to the blind with its new \u201cBlindsight\u201d chip at the 9th International Samsung Smart Mobility Summit in Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cRestoring control of people who are tetraplegics and restoring sight I think are pretty big deals. They\u2019re sort of what I might call Jesus-level technologies,\u201d he said. Blindsight will initially be used for people who have lost both eyes, damaged their optic nerve, or born blind. \u201cIt will give them initially limited vision, but I think over time, very precise vision, perhaps superhuman vision,\u201d said Musk hopefully. Speaking to Forbes<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> Musk spoke glowingly of the applications for the technology. \u201cI think some kind of brain machine interface that can give you cybernetic superpowers is probably good. It could help people that have brain or spine injuries, enable people who’ve never spoken for years to speak again, which we’ve done,\u201d he said. \u201cGive people eyesight who have lost both eyes of the optic nerve or maybe have never even seen at all, blind from birth. By a direct interface to the optical centers in the brain, you can actually restore eyesight or give people eyesight that they’ve never had before. And you can enable people to walk again, which I think is profound. These are kind of Jesus-level things. When technologies are hitting like Jesus-level miracles, that’s pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, not everyone was a fan of the comparison. \u201cStunning claim: a billionaire says his Neuralink brain-implant firm is developing \u2018Jesus-like technologies\u2019, prompting scientific and ethical questions as work advances,\u201d wrote one user on X<\/a>. \u201cFinal: scrutiny required. Oversight and legal review likely.\u201d \u201cThe stupid reptilian is spouting nonsense again. This is what computer atheism means,\u201d wrote another<\/a>. \u201cJesus Christ performed miracles in the name of God, and did not insert chips and flash drives into the heads of sick people. You don’t understand the difference because you’re a biorobot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk also spoke about his hopes for self-driving cars. \u201cIn 10 years, probably 90 per cent of all distance driven will be driven by the AI in a self-driving car,” he said. The future could also include humanoid robots. \u201cI think there will also be humanoid robots that are pretty much everywhere. I think everyone’s going to want one, maybe two.\u201d Whereas such a picture of the future could be somewhat dystopian to lovers of science fiction, Musk said he believed such a future would lead to \u201cuniversal high income\u201d as people gained more freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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