Zuckerberg noted that the company is primarily focused on technology that can receive signals from the brain, but don’t send him any information.
“The hardest part will be getting the information straight from the computer to the brain, and we’re not working on that,” Zuckerberg said.
He compared it to Neuralink, Elon Musk’s neural interface company which is developing a chip that will one day be implanted in human skulls, as well as electrodes that travel deep into the brain. These are believed to be able to both record and stimulate brain activity.
– Some, like Elon from Neuralink and other companies, see it as a very distant future. Maybe he’ll be ready in a few decades, Zuckerberg said.
In an interview with host Joe Rogan, he joked that no one would want to be the first Neuralink user.
“I think normal people for the next 10 or 15 years won’t want to install something like that in their brains for fun,” Zuckerberg said.
– You want a polished version of this technology, not one that will be much better a year from now and you’ll have to update your brain implant every year – he added.
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Musk offered some startling views on what Neuralink will be able to do. He felt it would be like “Fitbit in the skull” and assured that it will facilitate the symbiosis between human consciousness and artificial intelligence.
Neuralink has yet to begin human testing, but rival biotech company Synchron began testing in July.
Zuckerberg added that in the near future technologies such as Neuralink will be used by people with injured bodies.
In July 2021, Neuralink announced that it was working on the first application of its chip that would allow people with quadriplegia to control the on-screen cursor with their mind.
Text your wife by moving your wrist
Zuckerberg described how he plans to bring neural interface technology to the Metaverse, such as integrating it into a set of AR glasses.
Zuckerberg isn’t focused on inserting chips into people’s brains, but rather on using body-worn devices to receive signals from the brainthat he thought could be detected from other parts of the body.
“The path we’ve taken is that there are extra motor neurons in our body,” Zuckerberg said. Motor neurons are brain cells that transmit commands from the brain to the muscles of the body.
That said, people can transmit signals from the brain to devices with gentle movements elsewhere in the body.
Turns out you can have a device on your wrist that basically lets your brain communicate with your hand, telling it to move in ways it’s not used to, and the bracelet can pick up these signals and translate them in completely different ways, such as moving the virtual hand in front of you while the physical hand is at your side, Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg presented a vision of how this can be used in life.
“In the future, you might come across a situation where you’re sitting in a meeting and your wife is texting you, which pops up in the corner of her glasses, and you want to respond, but you don’t want to pull out your phone because that’s a bit rude,” he said.
– Thanks to neural interface technology, you can slightly move your wrist… with a super discreet movement that no one even knows you are doing, and send a message – He described.
Zuckerberg did not provide a date when such technology might be implemented.
Author: Isobel Asher Hamilton
