Elon Musk’s Neuralink To ‘Show-And-Tell’ Brain Chip Tech At Halloween Event

Apart from running Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Company, mogul Elon Musk still finds time to advance brain chip technology at Neuralink. 

The firm first made a splash in the news when it unveiled a video of a monkey playing a video game just by using its brain, which was implanted with brain chips that allowed it to register the animal’s desired hand and arm movements without it lifting a finger.

Naturally, not everyone was in favor of such an experiment, with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) filing a lawsuit against Musk’s company for alleged harming the monkeys in the process. 

Now, Neuralink has teased an upcoming “show and tell” of the progress its made in the field, which will be held on Halloween, October 31, 2022.

While not much is known about what could make an appearance at the event, expectations are certainly running high following the rather astonishing monkey stunt. 

According to Engadget, the firm has yet to receive clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to go ahead with human trials, and the state of the company is up in the air with many of its co-founders having left, with rumors swirling of a negative workplace culture.

Recently, industry insiders claimed that Neuralink has offered to invest in its direct competitor Synchron, which achieved the first endovascular installation of a brain-computer interface in the United States. Could this upcoming event showcase a joint project between the two? We’ll have to wait to find out. 

Neuralink progress update show & tell on October 31 st (Halloween)

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 22, 2022

[via Engadget and Digital Trends, cover image via Daniil Peshkov | Dreamstime.com]