Elon Musk Has Confirmed That Blindsight Implant To Restore Eyesight Is Already Working With Monkeys

Posted • September 24, 2024: If you grew up in the '70s and '80s, you recognize the image below of Lt. Geordi LaForge and his visor, which allowed the young man who was born blind to see, as portrayed by LeVar Burton in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek: The Next Generation. -- Elon Musk @elonmusk: “The Blindsight device from Neuralink will enable even those who have lost both eyes and their optic nerve to see. Provided the visual cortex is intact, it will even enable those who have been blind from birth to see for the first time. To set expectations correctly, the vision will be at first be low resolution, like Atari graphics, but eventually it has the potential be better than natural vision and enable you to see in infrared, ultraviolet or even radar wavelengths, like Geordi La Forge. Much appreciated, U.S. FDA!” https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXs15aPWIAAlLRU?format=jpg&name=medium

Neuralink @neuralink: “We have received Breakthrough Device Designation from the FDA for Blindsight. Join us in our quest to bring back sight to those who have lost it.” https://neuralink.com/ -- Between quests to get us back to the moon and Mars, teaching rockets how to sit, Nueralink, and now this, Elon Musk seems to be on a one-man crusade to make Gen X's childhood fantasies a reality. This is incredible! These are definitely exciting times to be alive. It will also be great to see when the Neurallink can be used to enable spinal cord injured people to walk again. All the things we watched growing up on TV are slowly becoming a reality, mainly in part thanks to this one man, and all of X is here for it, quite literally again, because of him. Who didn't want a self-driving car after watching Knight Rider? Who hasn't dreamed about the day humanity went to space for real?

Now, paralyzed people may be able to start interacting with their environment, and blind people may soon be able to see. Nueralink is in the human testing phase, and the device featured here is in the primate testing phase. This is just amazing. (…)

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