{"id":131926,"date":"2021-12-07T13:43:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/elon-musk-says-it-is-possible-to-test-neuralink-on-humans-next-year"},"modified":"2021-12-07T13:43:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:43:48","slug":"elon-musk-says-it-is-possible-to-test-neuralink-on-humans-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/elon-musk-says-it-is-possible-to-test-neuralink-on-humans-next-year","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Says It Is Possible to Test Neuralink on Humans Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-it-is-possible-to-test-neuralink-on-humans-next-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are we there already?<\/p>\n<p>Less than a year has passed since we saw Pager play Ping-Pong using Neuralink. The company\u2019s owner, Elon Musk has now said that he is <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1468055581277708295?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">confident of testing<\/a> the chip in humans next year.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in July 2016, the company is busy building an implantable chip that will allow the human brain to interact with computers directly. The company made headlines when its experimental macaque <a class=\"\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/watch-a-monkey-with-neuralinks-chip-play-pong-with-its-mind\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/watch-a-monkey-with-neuralinks-chip-play-pong-with-its-mind\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\">played Ping-Pong telepathically<\/a>, without the help of a joystick. The company seems to have made rapid progress in its technology since its founder is quite optimistic about human testing.<\/p>\n<p>Although there is no official communiqu\u00e9 from Neuralink, a stock investor on Twitter quoted Musk to say that the company was planning to test the chip soon. The tweet that tagged both Musk and Neuralink said that Musk was \u201ccautiously optimistic\u201d about <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stocktalkweekly\/status\/1468051008081248256?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">restoring full-body functionality<\/a> for tetraplegics &amp; quadriplegics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we there already? Less than a year has passed since we saw Pager play Ping-Pong using Neuralink. The company\u2019s owner, Elon Musk has now said that he is confident of testing the chip in humans next year. Founded in July 2016, the company is busy building an implantable chip that will allow the human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}