Running a single company can be a tiresome and stressful job. Running two might require therapy of some sort. But if you’re Elon Musk, your superpower is the ability to create and juggle and endless amount of different companies. Joining his portfolio of impressive next-generation companies such as Tesla and SpaceX is Neuralink.
Neuralink is the latest brainchild of Musk, a company that strives to create a seamless link between the brain of a human being and a computer. According to the Wall Street Journal, Musk has an “active role” in the California-based neuroscience startup. Among the company’s goals are the aims to create cranial computers for treating diseases and, eventually, for building human-computer hybrids.
For anyone following Musk, this company may not be that much of a surprise; he theorised that humans needed the boost an AI brain could only give to progress even further at a conference last year. To help him, he’s hired some of the best for Neuralink. Among the staff is flexible electrodes and nanotechnology expert Dr. Venessa Tolosa; UCSF professor Philip Sabes, who also participated in the Musk-sponsored Beneficial AI conference; and Boston University professor Timothy Gardner, who studies neural pathways in the brains of songbirds.
Meanwhile, Musk’s other company, SpaceX, plans to relaunch the first ever rocket that landed on a barge. The date set for the launch is March 30th.
Static fire test complete. Targeting Thursday, March 30 for Falcon 9 launch of SES-10. pic.twitter.com/0tZ7u6gngI
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 27, 2017
Source: Wall Street Journal
