{"id":13747,"date":"2024-03-16T19:37:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T18:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/brain-chips-the-sydney-researchers-miles-ahead-of-elon-musks-neuralink\/"},"modified":"2024-03-16T19:37:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T18:37:32","slug":"brain-chips-the-sydney-researchers-miles-ahead-of-elon-musks-neuralink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/brain-chips-the-sydney-researchers-miles-ahead-of-elon-musks-neuralink\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain chips: the Sydney researchers \u2018miles ahead\u2019 of Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple Australian projects are on the cutting edge of neurotech breakthroughs and man-machine interfaces \u2013 raising questions of security and privacy for human minds<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brain-computer interface technology is at the core of movies such as Ready Player One, The Matrix and Avatar. But outside the realm of science fiction, BCI is being used on Earth to help paralysed people communicate, to study dreams and to control robots.<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced in January \u2013 to much fanfare \u2013 that his neurotechnology company Neuralink had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/jan\/29\/elon-musk-neuralink-first-human-brain-chip-implant\">implanted<\/a> a computer chip into a human for the first time. In February, he announced that the patient was able <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/feb\/20\/neuralink-move-computer-mouse-musk\">to control a computer mouse<\/a> with their thoughts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2024\/mar\/17\/neuroscience-research-australia-neuralink-elon-musk-brain-chips\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/120d62ebe8e8d5a2eeb4cf917c07dc4f56814062\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5821bb28ad89a183015ba5e481ac9950\" title=\"Brain chips: the Sydney researchers \u2018miles ahead\u2019 of Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink\" \/>Multiple Australian projects are on the cutting edge of neurotech breakthroughs and man-machine interfaces \u2013 raising questions of security and privacy for human minds<br \/>\nGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>Brain-computer interface technology is at the core of movies such as Ready Player One, The Matrix and Avatar. But outside the realm of science fiction, BCI is being used on Earth to help paralysed people communicate, to study dreams and to control robots.<br \/>\nBillionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced in January \u2013 to much fanfare \u2013 that his neurotechnology company Neuralink had implanted a computer chip into a human for the first time. In February, he announced that the patient was able to control a computer mouse with their thoughts. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple Australian projects are on the cutting edge of neurotech breakthroughs and man-machine interfaces \u2013 raising questions of security and privacy for human minds Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Brain-computer interface technology is at the core of movies such as Ready Player One, The Matrix and Avatar. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/brain-chips-the-sydney-researchers-miles-ahead-of-elon-musks-neuralink\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brain chips: the Sydney researchers \u2018miles ahead\u2019 of Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13747"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}