Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #438
Elon Musk is CEO of Neuralink, SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and CTO of X. DJ Seo is COO & President of Neuralink. Matthew MacDougall is Head Neurosurgeon at Neuralink. Bliss Chapman is Brain Interface Software Lead at Neuralink. Noland Arbaugh is the first human to have a Neuralink device implanted in his brain.
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*Transcript:*
https://lexfridman.com/elon-mu....sk-and-neuralink-tea
*EPISODE LINKS:*
Neuralink's X: https://x.com/neuralink
Neuralink's Website: https://neuralink.com/
Elon's X: https://x.com/elonmusk
DJ's X: https://x.com/djseo_
Matthew's X: https://x.com/matthewmacdoug4
Bliss's X: https://x.com/chapman_bliss
Noland's X: https://x.com/ModdedQuad
xAI: https://x.com/xai
Tesla: https://x.com/tesla
Tesla Optimus: https://x.com/tesla_optimus
Tesla AI: https://x.com/Tesla_AI
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*OUTLINE:*
0:00 - Introduction
0:49 - Elon Musk
4:06 - Telepathy
10:45 - Power of human mind
15:12 - Future of Neuralink
20:27 - Ayahuasca
29:57 - Merging with AI
34:44 - xAI
36:57 - Optimus
43:47 - Elon's approach to problem-solving
1:01:23 - History and geopolitics
1:05:53 - Lessons of history
1:10:12 - Collapse of empires
1:17:55 - Time
1:20:37 - Aliens and curiosity
1:28:12 - DJ Seo
1:36:20 - Neural dust
1:43:03 - History of brain–computer interface
1:51:07 - Biophysics of neural interfaces
2:01:36 - How Neuralink works
2:07:26 - Lex with Neuralink implant
2:27:24 - Digital telepathy
2:38:27 - Retracted threads
2:44:01 - Vertical integration
2:50:55 - Safety
3:00:50 - Upgrades
3:09:53 - Future capabilities
3:39:09 - Matthew MacDougall
3:44:58 - Neuroscience
3:52:07 - Neurosurgery
4:03:11 - Neuralink surgery
4:22:20 - Brain surgery details
4:38:03 - Implanting Neuralink on self
4:53:57 - Life and death
5:03:17 - Consciousness
5:06:11 - Bliss Chapman
5:19:27 - Neural signal
5:26:19 - Latency
5:30:59 - Neuralink app
5:35:40 - Intention vs action
5:46:54 - Calibration
5:56:26 - Webgrid
6:19:28 - Neural decoder
6:40:03 - Future improvements
6:48:59 - Noland Arbaugh
6:49:08 - Becoming paralyzed
7:02:43 - First Neuralink human participant
7:06:45 - Day of surgery
7:24:31 - Moving mouse with brain
7:49:50 - Webgrid
7:57:52 - Retracted threads
8:06:16 - App improvements
8:13:01 - Gaming
8:23:59 - Future Neuralink capabilities
8:26:55 - Controlling Optimus robot
8:31:16 - God
8:33:21 - Hope
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