It seems that the future is getting closer and Elon Musk’s statements could be giving us a small glimpse of what we would expect as human beings if neural networks become a reality.
It looks like something out of a movie
Imagine you are walking down the street and suddenly you feel like listening to The White Album by The Beatles but you don’t have headphones. Well, that might not be a problem, because according to Elon Musk, the technology of the future could help us listen to the music we want directly in our brains. Yes, this is how you read it.
It is thanks to Neuralink that it is believed that this will be possible and this is confirmed by Elon Musk himself in a response on Twitter.
Austin Howard:
If we implement Neurolink – Can we listen to music directly from our chips? Great feature.
Elon Musk:
Yes.
But this is not the only thing that could be achieved with Neuralink, but this could help you to be more mentally stable since it could help you control the release of oxytocin, serotonin and other chemicals in the brain. That means that you could even become addicted to your own chip by constantly releasing endorphins and dopamine, which has not been said if it could be regulated, although most likely if, it would be very rare if it were not.
Neuralink could also help with diseases such as Parkinson’s or even increase the response level of the human brain, making it even possible to compete against artificial intelligence.
It certainly sounds like something that could help us a lot as a society but could also represent very big problems, because you would be leaving control of your brain to a corporation. I don’t know about you but it sounds like the beginning of a cyberpunk dystopia.