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Elon Musk found something 'Awesome'

Recently a tweet of Elon got a viral response around the tech enthusiastic community.  It's not about space, autonomous cars or the financial success of Tesla stock this time.

We all know that there is an ongoing project called 'NeuraInk'. This is going to be all about that. To the people who don't know that, Neuralink is an ultimate goal of artificial super-intelligence and It could be an ultimate success of human evaluation.

The billionaire said his start-up Neuralink is going to deliver an awesome update by end of this year. There is no doubt, Elon had shown rapid growth in most of the sectors by his inspirational thoughts over the last year and he is not done yet. He believes the brain-machine interface can help to overcome disabilities, injuries and may more real-life problems by control the computers without a physical connection. The idea of Neuralink is to implant the flexible threads between the neurons in the human brain and collect the data as they fire. It is sounds weird but not new. The history of implantation starts in 1957. 

Neurons fire the signals as a very small electrical impulse (for action potential known as spikes) which can be tracked by Neuralink electrical threads. these threads are capable of transferring a higher volume of real-time data (according to the papers as many as 3,072 electrodes per array distributed across 96 threads) and less likely to damage the brain. Also, these threads are thinner than a hair(4 to 6 micrometer). Musk and the team say the implantation could be done with a surgical robot winch has an 87.1 percent success rate over the 19 surgeries. So the next question is going to be "Will it work?". Yes, It worked while testing on a male Long-Evans rat. Neuralink claimed it was implanted with the help of a surgical robot and action potentials are successfully identified using an online detection algorithm. The only concern here is, there are no updates on how secure it is medically to carry an electronics gadget inside the brain.

As we know last July, musk and the Neuralink team did a complete presentation on their plan. Also, they announced N1 which made with flexible threads to be implanted and promised to implant that for the first human by 2020. The updates that we got so far say we're going to meet the early stage of this technology by end of this year. Along with that Elon's tweets makes us even more excited. with those wonders, we can expect a live follow-up event this summer. Anyhow, from these crazy AI-powered innovations the way of living is going to be 'Awesome'.  
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