So, we're trying to make, engineer, a chip that has like, a hundred thousand, a million, channels... That can read and write information from the brain.

So, to answer this question, um, spike detection algorithm... We actually look for particular shapes, character shapes, that we think are spikes.

One of the hardest problems is kind of material science and the insulation of the electrodes... You want to introduce silicon carbide, a type of insulator, because it's probably the best long-term material.

When you say speed, what do you mean like how quickly can you read information from the brain and how quickly can you write information in the brain?

The prototype that we have is using Bluetooth low energy radio, and it's capable of recording and stimulating neural signals. It can record up to 1024 channels simultaneously, and also has the ability to compress and extract signals of interest.

Our first clinical trial is aimed at people with paraplegia or tetraplegia, so cervical spinal cord injury. We're going to enroll a small number of patients to make sure the device is safe and works in that case.

For us, it's real-time low-level platform C++, some Java, and Python scripts. We also use Verilog for chip design and VHDL for verification.

Privacy and security are top priorities at Neuralink, especially given the sensitivity of the data that we're collecting. One of the things that we're ensuring is to make sure that a lot of the interactions with the brain data is going to be encrypted and authenticated properly.

Pigs are actually very similar to humans in terms of their skull anatomy, and they have a large representation of the snout in the cortex which can be easily stimulated.

One of the things I think has great potential for the Neurolink is to provide a visual prosthesis for people who have retinal injury or blindness through eye injury.

I've actually been excited from the beginning about the like side benefit of these devices, I sort of see them as essentially like an oscilloscope to a printed circuit board is our device to the brain, where just by virtue of having this in there and uh being able to see what's actually going on you'll end up learning a ton about how the brain works

I think that that's going to be important from uh, from an existential threat standpoint to achieve a good AI symbiosis and that's what I think is might be the most important thing that a device like this achieves

Yeah so I mean everyone else along the line has had you know amazing ideas and yeah for me it's it's about you know memories and everyone loses those memories over time you know i i already can't remember what happened to me when i was younger and you know i will only get worse