Elon Musk teased on Twitter this weekend that his secretive brain-computer interface startup Neuralink is working on an “awesome” new version of the company’s signature device.
上週末，埃隆·馬斯克(Elon Musk)在Twitter上戲稱，他的秘密腦機接口初創公司Neuralink正在開發一款“令人敬畏”的新版公司標誌性設備。
In July of last year, Neuralink showed off plans to connect the human brain to machines — by shooting holes in the skull with lasers and feeding flexible threads of electrodes into the brain.
去年7月，Neuralink展示了將人腦與機器連接的計劃-用激光在頭骨上打洞，並將靈活的電極線送入大腦。
In a tweet, Musk claimed that Neuralink may have its updated version “in a human as soon as this year.” He said it “just needs to be unequivocally better than Utah Array,” which is an existing neural interface designed to record neural activity in the brain.
在一條推文中，Musk聲稱Neuralink可能“最快在今年在人類中”有其最新版本。他說，它“只需要明確優於猶他州陣列(Utah Array)”，後者是一個現有的神經接口，旨在記錄大腦中的神經活動。
Musk pointed out that such an array has some “severe drawbacks” and claimed that “it looks like a medieval torture device” — perhaps referring to its spiky nature and the way it is inserted into the brain via a “pneumatic inserter.”
馬斯克指出，這樣的陣列有一些“嚴重的缺點”，並聲稱“它看起來像中世紀的酷刑裝置”-也許是指它的尖刺性質和它通過“氣動插入器”插入大腦的方式。
Musk bragged in November podcast appearance that future versions of Neuralink might be able to “solve” autism and schizophrenia by reinstating lost portions of the brain and making them functional again.
馬斯克在11月的播客外觀上吹噓說，未來版本的Neuralink可能能夠“解決”自閉症和精神分裂症，方法是恢復大腦中丟失的部分並使其重新發揮功能。
We have yet to see what Neuralink’s updated vision looks like — or if the concept even works at all — but Musk is optimistic.
我們還沒有看到Neuralink更新後的願景是什麼樣子-或者這個概念是否真的起作用-但Musk是樂觀的。
“Don’t want to get too excited, but the potential is truly transformational for restoring brain [and] motor functions,” Musk wrote in a tweet on Monday.
馬斯克在週一的一條推文中寫道：“我不想太興奮，但這種潛力對於恢復大腦[和]運動功能來說是真正具有變革性的。”
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