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LIVE NOW: Elon Musk starting his Neuralink Presentation.

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Elon Musk: "My prime motivation for Neuralink was the question: What do we do if there is a Superintelligence that is much smarter than Human beings? How do we, as a Species, mitigate the risk or, in a benine scenario, go along for the ride?" #Neuralink @elonmusk

"Even if we don't succeede completely, we will be able to solve many brain diseases. What need to be able to read and write signals in the totality of the brain" #Neuralink @elonmusk

"Since our last Neuralink update, we have been on the difficult way from prototype to product. It's insanely difficult. We should be able to test our first Neuralink in a human probably in about 6 months." #Neuralink @elonmusk

"Contrary to what some think, we are extremely careful with animals. We always want the implant to be confirmatory, not exploratory. We do a huge amount of testing" #Neuralink @elonmusk

"We are confident that someone who has the Neuralink could control a phone better than someone using fingers. Neuralink will also be upgradable, so you can always have the latest updates" #Neuralink @elonmusk

"The first applications we will be aiming for humans vision. Even if someone never had vision, if they were born blind, we are confidend that we can restore vision since the visual cortex is still there." #Neuralink @elonmusk

"Another application is to enable someone who has almost no possibility to activate his or her muscles. We are confident we can bridge the connexion between the motor cortex to a Neuralink located in the spinal cord" #Neuralink @elonmusk

"My most important message tonight is: Come work with Us! If you have expertise in creating advanced devices like watches and computers, your capabilities will certainly be very important to us." #Neuralink @elonmusk

During Q&A: "Once you're "in there", there is a lot you can do 🤷‍♂️🤓" #Neuralink @elonmusk

"Our current pace of development can seem slow. This is because we are building our production line at the same time. Our goal is to produce and implant tens of thousands, ultimately millions of devices. Progress will be exponential." #Neuralink @elonmusk

Answering a question about Neuralink's long-term perspectives: "Many companies will likely want to write applications for Neuralink. One way to describe it is: we are building a computer on top of which applications can be run." #Neuralink @elonmusk

Final remark from Elon: "With direct I/O access to the brain, we will understand much much more about how the brain works. Today, we are mainly guessing, but with a device such as Neuralink, we will learn many orders of magnitude more!" #Neuralink @elonmusk

End of thread, thanks for reading! ♥️