Tesla CEO Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company Neuralink has recently made a major breakthrough in technology. Its "Blindsight" implant technology has been successfully used in monkeys. This progress indicates the possibility of restoring vision in the future.
Musk is very confident in this technology, saying that although the resolution may be low at first, like early Nintendo game graphics, as the technology continues to improve, it may eventually exceed normal human vision.
This means,Not only patients who have acquired blindness are expected to regain their sight, but even congenitally blind people who have never had sight may regain their sight through this technology.
Because even if they have never seen something, the visual cortex is still there, making it possible for them to gain visual abilities through Neuralink's technology.
Recently, Neuralink updated the situation of its first brain implant patient, a quadriplegic who was able to play chess with his thoughts.
The patient himself said that he would try to move his right hand left, right, forward, and backward, and then start imagining the cursor moving from there, and then the cursor could follow his thoughts.
It is reported that Neuralink was founded in 2016. Neuralink's brain-computer interface device is an invasive brain implant that controls external devices through neural signals, thereby helping severely paralyzed patients regain their ability to communicate with the outside world.
Neuralink's short-term goal is to help paralyzed people realize the function of thought typing.In the future, it will be possible to allow paralyzed people to walk, blind people to see, and ultimately realize a "human-machine symbiosis."