WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.680 Welcome to the Neuralink presentation. This is an update for 2 00:00:04.839 --> 00:00:07.559 the progress from the neuralink team. It's been an incredible 3 00:00:07.559 --> 00:00:08.279 amount of progress. 4 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:09.480 This is. 5 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:15.240 We're going to start off high level generally describing what 6 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:18.559 neuralink is doing, and then we're going to have a 7 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:21.039 very deep technical dive so you can actually get an 8 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:24.480 understanding of what exactly we're doing at a granule level 9 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:29.160 and what we can do to enhance human capabilities and 10 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:35.479 ultimately build a great future for humanity. So that's a neuronspiring. 11 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:39.119 It's funny thing that me talking right now is a 12 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:43.880 bunch of neurons firing that then result in speech. 13 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:48.359 That you here. Of course, neurons to fire in your brain. 14 00:00:51.159 --> 00:00:51.479 Part of. 15 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:58.399 This presentation is about demystifying the brain. It is a 16 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:01.560 remarkable organ. I mean we are the brain. Basically when 17 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:06.079 you say you that really is uh, you're the brain. 18 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:08.879 Like you can you can get a heart transplant, you 19 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:11.920 can get a kidney transplant, but I don't know anyone 20 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:13.359 who's gotten a brain transplant. 21 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:16.480 So you are your brain. 22 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:24.760 And your experiences are these neurons firing with the trillions 23 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:27.439 of synapses. 24 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:31.280 That somehow lead to conscious comprehension of the world. 25 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:36.959 This is something that we have only begun to understand. 26 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:39.439 We're really just barely at the beginning of understanding of 27 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:43.280 what is the nature of consciousness. And I've thought a 28 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:45.000 lot about what what is consciousness? 29 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:47.239 What is it? Where does consciousness arise? 30 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:53.799 Because if you start at the beginning of the universe, 31 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:57.519 assuming physics is true, the physic current, the standard model 32 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:00.359 of physics is true, then you have this. 33 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:06.120 Big bang, the matter condensing. 34 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:10.159 Into stars, those stars exploding, a lot of the atoms 35 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:12.120 that are in your body. Right now, we're once at 36 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:18.479 the center of stars, those stars exploded, recondensed. Fast forward 37 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:24.240 thirteen point eight billion years, and here we are. And 38 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:30.159 somewhere along that very long journey to us, at least 39 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:37.039 consciousness arose or the molecules started talking to each other. 40 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:47.639 And it begs the question of what is consciousness? Is 41 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:50.439 is everything conscious? Maybe it's hard to say where along 42 00:02:50.479 --> 00:02:54.199 that line that there's no sort of discrete point where 43 00:02:54.319 --> 00:03:00.439 consciousness didn't exist, and then suddenly it does exist. It 44 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:04.800 seems to be maybe you have a condensation of matter 45 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:09.360 that has a density of like we don't know what 46 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:11.919 really the real answer is, we don't know what consciousness is. 47 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:17.159 But with the neural link and the progress of the 48 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:20.439 company's making, will begin to understand a lot more about 49 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:30.560 consciousness and what does it mean to to be. Along 50 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:32.599 the way, we're we're going to solve a lot of 51 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:38.719 a lot of brain issues where the brains get uh 52 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:43.240 injury or damaged in some way or didn't develop in 53 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:47.400 quite the right way. But there's yeah, there's there's a 54 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:50.960 lot of brain in spine injuries that will so along 55 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:53.199 the way. And I do want to have size that 56 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:56.199 this is all going to happen quite slowly, meaning you'll 57 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:59.759 you'll see it coming. Sometimes people think that suddenly there 58 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:03.680 will be vast numbers of neural links all over the place. 59 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:06.800 This is not going to be sudden. You'll be able 60 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:10.039 to watch it happen, you know, over the course of 61 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:17.240 several years. And we go through exhaustive regulatory approvals. So 62 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:20.439 this is not something that we're just doing there by 63 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:25.560 ourselves without governor oversight. We work closely with the regulators 64 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:30.519 every sepular way. We're very cautious with the neural links 65 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:34.600 and humans. That's the reason we're not moving faster than 66 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:37.079 we are is because we're taking great care with each 67 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:41.360 individual to make sure we never miss and so far 68 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:43.439 we haven't, and I hope that continues into the future. 69 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:46.920 Every single one of our implants and humans is working 70 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:50.199 and working quite well, and you'll get to hear from 71 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:53.639 some of the people that have received the implants and 72 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.040 care it in their words. So what we're creating here 73 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:02.959 with a neuralink device is a generalized input output. 74 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:06.720 Technology for the brain. 75 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:11.399 So it's how do you get information into or out 76 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:16.000 of the brain and do so in a way that 77 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:19.199 does not damage the brain or you know, of course 78 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:22.639 any negative side effects. So it's a very hard problem 79 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:28.759 and generally the reactions I've seen to this range from 80 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:33.319 it's impossible to it's already been done before those people 81 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:38.839 should meet. Actually, the reality is that there actually have 82 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:47.360 been limited brain to computer interfaces for several decades on 83 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:51.680 a very basic basis. Just what we're doing with neurlink 84 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:58.079 is dramatically increasing the bandwidth by many or as the magnitude, 85 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:03.040 so you can you can a human bandwidth output is 86 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:05.240 less than one bit per second over the course of 87 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:08.560 a day, so there's eighty six seconds in a day. 88 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:11.800 It's very rare for a person to do more than 89 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:14.920 eighty six thousand, four hundred bits of output per day. 90 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:17.079 You'd have to be really talking a lot or typing 91 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:22.839 all day and you might exceed that. So what we're 92 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:25.439 talking about here is going from maybe one bit per 93 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:31.800 second to ultimately megabits and then gigabits per second, and 94 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:39.560 the ability to do conceptual consensual tlepathy. Now, the input 95 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:43.240 to the rate is much higher because especially because of vision, 96 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:47.279 depending upon how you counted, it might be on the 97 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:52.319 order of a megabit or in the megabt range for input, 98 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:59.199 primarily due to site, but even for input, we think 99 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:02.319 that can be traumatic increased to the. 100 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:03.279 Gig of it plus level. 101 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:09.839 And a lot of the thinking that we do is 102 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:12.959 which we take a concept in our mind and we 103 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:16.959 compress that into a small number of symbols. So when 104 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:20.600 you're trying to communicate with somebody else, you're actually trying 105 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:26.680 to model their mind state and then take peraps quite 106 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:29.720 a complex idea that you have, maybe even a complex 107 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:33.560 image or scene or kind of mental video, and try 108 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:36.160 to compress that into a few woods or a few keystrokes, 109 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:38.240 and it's necessarily. 110 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:38.839 Going to be very lossy. 111 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:43.199 Your ability to communicate is very limited by how fast 112 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:45.839 you can talk and how fast you can type, and 113 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:49.480 what we're talking about is unlocking that potential to enable 114 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:53.279 you to communicate, like I said, thousands, perhaps millions of 115 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:57.879 times faster than is currently possible. This is an incredibly 116 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:03.639 profound breakthrough. This would this would be a fundamental change 117 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:08.879 to what it means to be a human. So we're 118 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:15.120 starting off with reducing human suffering, so or addressing issues 119 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:17.199 that people have, save if they've been in an accident, 120 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:22.800 or they have some uh neural disease that's degenerative, so 121 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:26.680 they're losing capability to move their body, or some some 122 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:31.879 kind of injury. Essentially, so enabling the first products is 123 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:37.320 called telepathy, and that enables someone who has lost the 124 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:40.879 ability to command their body to be able to communicate 125 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:43.320 with a computer and move the mouse and actually operate 126 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:47.279 a computer with roughly the same dexterity, ultimately much more 127 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:55.039 dexterity than a human with working hands. Then our next 128 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:58.279 product is blind sight, which will enable those who have 129 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:01.559 total loss of visioning they've lost their eyes or the 130 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:05.240 optic nerve or maybe i've never seen, we're even blind 131 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:09.440 from birth, to be able to see again, initially low resolution, 132 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:13.639 but ultimately very high resolution, and then in multiple wavelengths, 133 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:16.440 so you could be like Jordie LaForge in Star Trek 134 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:19.200 and you can see in radar, you can see infrared, ultraviolet, 135 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:28.279 superhuman capabilities, sebernetic enhancement essentially, and then along the way 136 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:32.799 this should help us understand a lot more about consciousness, 137 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:37.559 what does it mean to be a conscious creature? Well, 138 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:40.559 understand vastly more about the nature of consciousness as a 139 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:43.679 result of this, and then ultimately I think this helps 140 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:53.480 mitigate the civilizational risk of artificial intelligence. We are actually 141 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:56.519 already we're ready to sort of have three layers of thinking. 142 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:00.679 There's the olympic system, which is your kind of your instincts, 143 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:06.080 your cortical system, which is your higher level planning and thinking. 144 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:10.639 And then the tertiary layer, which is the computers and 145 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:13.120 machines that you interact with, like your phone, all the 146 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:14.240 applications you use. 147 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:18.799 So people actually are already a cyborg. 148 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:23.480 You can maybe have an intuitive sense for this by 149 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:27.000 how much you miss your phone if you leave it behind. 150 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:30.240 Leaving your phone behind is like it's almost like missing 151 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:30.879 limbs syndrome. 152 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:35.440 Your phone is somewhat of an extension of yourself, as 153 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:36.120 is your computer. 154 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:37.320 So you. 155 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:42.279 Already have this digital tertie layer, but the bandwidth between 156 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:46.679 your cortex and your digital tertie layer is limited by 157 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:49.440 speech and by and by half fast you can move 158 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:52.799 your fingers, and how fast you can consume information visually. 159 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:58.639 So so, but I think it's actually very important for 160 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:03.360 us to address that input output boundwidth constraint in order 161 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:07.399 for the collective will of humanity to match the will 162 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:16.559 of artificial intelligence. That's my intuition at least. So let's see, 163 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:26.919 and what this presentation is mostly about is attracting smart 164 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:30.240 humans to come and work with us on this problem. 165 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:34.039 So this is not a presentation to raise money or 166 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:34.759 anything like that. 167 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:38.320 We're actually, you know, very well funded. 168 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:42.159 We have a lot of great investors, some of the 169 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:44.679 smartest people in the world are invested in neur Link. 170 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:48.200 But we we need smart humans to come here and 171 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:51.559 help solve this problem. So with that, let's uh, let's proceed. 172 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:09.080 Hey everyone, my name is DJ I'm my co founder 173 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:13.720 and president of Neuralink. And as Elon mentioned, well, actually 174 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.919 we're standing in the middle of our robust space. We 175 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:19.159 have a stage set up, but you know, this is 176 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:23.159 actually where some of the next generation, most advanced surgical 177 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:33.639 robots are being built, so welcome to our space. It's 178 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:36.159 important to highlight that this technology is not being built 179 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:39.480 in the dark. This is not a secret lab where 180 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:41.879 we're not sharing any of the progress. In fact, we're 181 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:46.159 actually sharing you know, the progress very openly and as 182 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:48.159 well as also telling you exactly what we're going to 183 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:52.759 be doing, and we're hoping to progress on that as 184 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:56.080 as diligently and as safely and as carefully as possible. 185 00:12:56.159 --> 00:13:00.360 So to start off, two years ago, when we did 186 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:04.320 our previous fundraising round, we outlined this path and timeline 187 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:08.720 to first human and we currently have a clinical trials 188 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:11.000 in the US for a product that we call Telepathy, 189 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:15.159 which allows users to control phone or computer purely with 190 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:17.039 their thoughts. And you're going to see how we do 191 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:20.919 this and what the impact that this has had. And 192 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:24.559 not only have we launched this clinical trial, but as 193 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:27.799 of today we have not just one, but seven. 194 00:13:27.639 --> 00:13:30.200 Participants and we have an approval. 195 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:39.200 And we also have an approval to launch this trial 196 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:51.279 in Canada, UK and the UAE. So I guess before 197 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:54.879 we dive into what this technology is and what we built, 198 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:57.559 but I wanted to quickly share a video with you 199 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:01.399 guys of when our first five parts participants met each 200 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:02.320 other for the first time. 201 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:03.159 So here you go. 202 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:06.759 All right, we have everyone together up. 203 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:10.279 Guys, thanks everybody joining. Want to use of you. 204 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:13.000 Yeah, I'm Nolan aka P one. 205 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:16.720 My name is Alex. I am the second participant in 206 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:17.720 the Neuralink study. 207 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:21.919 I am Brad Smith. Let's cycle P three. 208 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:27.639 My name and my G four have. 209 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:29.879 Less like. 210 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:37.440 Uh yeah, I'm marj I'm P five and I just yes, 211 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:40.159 I'm kind of to one of the team heres. So yeah, 212 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:43.279 appreciate it. No trail blazer, you know, somebody's got to 213 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:44.320 get first. Man, that was you. 214 00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:44.919 Appreciate that. 215 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:47.600 What's been your favorite thing you've been able to do 216 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:48.639 with the neuralink so far. 217 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:51.159 I've just had a good time being able to use 218 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:54.159 it as I travel buying and drawn. 219 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:55.279 A little mustache on a cat. 220 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:57.399 Had a lot of fun doing that. I mean, I've 221 00:14:57.399 --> 00:14:58.879 just had a good time playing around with it. 222 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:00.679 Oh you know what, But I. 223 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:03.399 Do know what My favorite BCI feature is probably not 224 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:07.279 a feature, but I just I love web Grid more 225 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:10.600 than I love anything in my life. Probably I think 226 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:13.799 I could play that game NonStop forever. 227 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:18.279 Has to be Fusion three sixty being able to design parts, 228 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:20.759 design the hat logo with the BCI. 229 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:23.360 That's what's up? 230 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:24.440 Pretty sweet? 231 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:25.039 That's sweet? 232 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:29.519 Yeah, Yeah, I have a little uh are do we know? 233 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:35.000 That takes input from my quad stick converts it into 234 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:38.679 a PPM signal to go to an RC truck. 235 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:41.600 Cool little rock crawler. 236 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:48.360 Well with the BCI, I room code to drive the 237 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:50.559 plane with the quad stick. 238 00:15:51.240 --> 00:15:52.000 That's awesome. 239 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:57.960 The best thing I like Abunerline is being able to 240 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:02.559 continue to provide. 241 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:06.840 For my family and continue working. 242 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:10.799 I think my favorite things probably been able to turn 243 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:13.840 on my TV. Yeah, like the first time in two 244 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:15.360 and a half years. I was able to do that. 245 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:18.120 That's pretty sweet with a right shooting the all base. 246 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:21.480 That's that's sound nice. Excited to see it. BCIs got 247 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:21.879 going on? 248 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:23.360 They got a car? 249 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:24.600 What's your shirts say? 250 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:25.799 Is it? 251 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:32.200 I do a thing called whatever I want. 252 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:39.440 Now. 253 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:41.840 One of the major figure of merits that we have 254 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:46.960 is to keep track of monthly hours of independent DCI use. Effectively, 255 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:50.720 are they using the BCI and not at the clinic 256 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:53.559 but at their home? And what we have noticed, and 257 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:56.200 this is a plot of all of the different participants, 258 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:00.320 first five participants and their usage per month over the 259 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:03.159 course of the last year and a half and we're 260 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:06.039 averaging around fifty hours a week of usage and in 261 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:08.359 some cases peak usage of more than one hundred hours 262 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:18.720 a week, which is pretty much every waking moments. So 263 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:20.839 I think it's been incredible to see all of our 264 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:28.039 participants demonstrating greater independence through their use of PCI. Not 265 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:31.680 only that, we've also accelerated our implantation cadence as we've 266 00:17:31.799 --> 00:17:35.160 amassed evidence of both clinical safety as well as value 267 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:38.440 to our participants. So to date, we have four spinal 268 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:41.880 cord injury participants as well as three ALS participants, with 269 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:44.799 the last two surgeries happening within one week of each other, 270 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:50.519 and we're just beginning. 271 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:52.599 This is just tip of the iceberg. 272 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:56.480 Our end goal is to really build a whole brand interface. 273 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:59.359 And what do we mean by whole brand interface. We 274 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:03.119 mean being able to listen to neurons everywhere, be able 275 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:06.920 to write information to neurons anywhere, be able to have 276 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.680 that fast data wireless transfer, to enable that high bandwidth 277 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:15.680 connection from our biological brain to the external machines, and 278 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:19.000 be able to do all of this with fully automated surgery, 279 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:25.400 as well as enable twenty four hours of usage, and 280 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:29.039 towards that goal, we're really working on three major product types. 281 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:32.880 Elon mentioned earlier that our goals to build a generalized 282 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:36.759 input output platform and technology to the brain so to 283 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:40.240 afford the output portion of it, which is extremely slow, 284 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:49.920 through our meat sticks, as Elon calls them. 285 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:48.640 Meet hands that are holding the mics. 286 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:53.880 We're starting out with helping people with movement disorders, either 287 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:56.519 through where they lost a mind body connection, either through 288 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:59.759 a spinal cor injury ALS or a stroke, be able 289 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:02.839 to regain some of that digital as well as physical 290 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:06.079 independence through a product that we're building called Telepathy, and 291 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:09.599 this is our opportunities to build a high channel read 292 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:14.359 and output device. On the input side of things, there's 293 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:17.759 opportunities for us to help people that have lost the 294 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:21.279 ability to see be able to regain that site again 295 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:24.680 through a product that we're calling blind Site, and this 296 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:29.200 is our opportunity to build high channel right capabilities and 297 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:32.279 last but not least, be able to also help people 298 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:38.920 that are suffering from neurological debilitating dysregulation or psychiatric conditions 299 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:45.279 or neuropathic pain by inserting our electros in reaching any 300 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:48.440 brain regions to be able to insert them not just 301 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:51.359 on the cortical layer, but into the sulk guys as 302 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:54.119 well as deeper parts of the brain, the so called 303 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:58.720 limbic system, to really enable better opportunities to just regain 304 00:19:58.759 --> 00:20:03.680 some of that independence. Our north Star metrics is one 305 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:07.039 increasing the number of neurons that we can interface with, 306 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:11.079 and second to expand to many diverse areas any parts 307 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:15.880 of the brain, starting with microfabrication or lithography to change 308 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:18.279 the way in which we can actually increase the number 309 00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:20.240 of neurons that we can see from a single channel, 310 00:20:21.079 --> 00:20:26.160 and also doing mixed signal chip design to actually increase 311 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:31.519 the physical channel counts to increase more neurons that we 312 00:20:31.559 --> 00:20:35.839 can interface to to sort of allow more information from 313 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:37.640 the brain to the outside world. 314 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:38.799 And then you. 315 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:41.480 Know, everything we built from day one of the company 316 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:45.200 has always been read and write capable, and with Telepathy 317 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:48.720 our first product, the focus has been on the read 318 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:51.720 capabilities or the output and we want to hone in 319 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:55.799 on our right capability and also show that through accessing 320 00:20:55.839 --> 00:21:00.000 deeper regions within the visual cortex that we can actually 321 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:14.960 achieve functional vision. So now just to step you through 322 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:16.920 what the product evolution is going to look like in 323 00:21:16.960 --> 00:21:20.440 the next three years, today, what we have is one 324 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:23.599 thousand electrodes in the motor cortex, the part of the 325 00:21:23.640 --> 00:21:25.160 small part of the brain that you see in this 326 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:29.599 animation called the hand knob area that allows participants control 327 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:31.680 computer cursors as well as gaming consoles. 328 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:36.200 Next quarter, we're planning to implant in. 329 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:41.480 The speech cortex to directly decode attentive words from brain 330 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:48.279 signals to speech. And in twenty twenty six, not only 331 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:52.440 are we going to triple the number of electrodes from 332 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:56.039 one thousand to three thousand for more capabilities, we're planning 333 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:59.519 to have our first blind site participant to enable navigation. 334 00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:11.559 And in twenty twenty seven we're going to continue increasing 335 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:16.000 channel counts, probably another triple, so ten thousand channels, and 336 00:22:16.279 --> 00:22:20.920 also enable for the first time multiple implants, so not 337 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:24.480 just one in mortal cortex, speech cortex, or visual cortex, 338 00:22:24.519 --> 00:22:30.960 but all of the above. And finally, in twenty twenty eight, 339 00:22:31.240 --> 00:22:34.000 our goals to get to more than twenty five thousand 340 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:38.400 channels per implant, have multiple of these, have ability to 341 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:43.559 access any part of the brain for psychiatric conditions, pain dysregulation, 342 00:22:43.960 --> 00:22:46.039 and also start to demonstrate. 343 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:47.720 What it would be like to actually integrate with AI, 344 00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:57.279 and all of. 345 00:22:57.319 --> 00:23:00.279 This is to say that we're really building towards set 346 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:03.640 of fundamental foundational technology that would allow us to have 347 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:06.640 hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of channels with multiple 348 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:10.000 implants for whole bit interfaces that could actually solve not 349 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:13.160 just these devoltating neurological conditions, but be able to go 350 00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:15.799 beyond the limits of our biology. 351 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:17.680 And this vertical integration. 352 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:20.039 And the talented team that we have at Neuralink has 353 00:23:20.119 --> 00:23:22.319 been and will continue to be the key recipe for 354 00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:25.319 rapid progress that we will be making. Just to recap 355 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:30.119 real quick, neuralink is implanted with precision surgical robot. It's 356 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:34.359 physically invisible, and one week later users are able to 357 00:23:34.359 --> 00:23:37.720 see their thoughts transform into actions and to share more 358 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:41.559 about what that experience is like. I like to welcome 359 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:53.680 to Hedge to the stage. 360 00:23:56.599 --> 00:23:59.039 What's up, guys. My name is Sahedge. I'm from the 361 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:01.920 Brain Computer Inner team here at Neuralink, and I'm going 362 00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:04.720 to be talking about two things today. The first thing 363 00:24:04.839 --> 00:24:07.880 is what exactly is a neuralink device capable of doing 364 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:10.519 right now? And the second one is how does that 365 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:13.200 actually impact the day to day lives of our users? 366 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:18.799 Very simply put, what the neuralink device does right now 367 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:23.720 is it allows you to control devices simply just by thinking. Now, 368 00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:26.720 to put that a bit more concretely, I'm about to 369 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:29.519 play a video of our first user. His name is Noland, 370 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:32.880 if you remember from DJ section, And what Nolan is 371 00:24:32.920 --> 00:24:36.039 doing is he's looking at a normal off the shelf 372 00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:39.799 MacBook Pro and with his neuralink devices, you're going to 373 00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:42.200 see he's going to be able to control the cursor 374 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:45.640 simply with his mind, no eye tracking, no other sensors. 375 00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:49.680 And what's special about this particular moment is this is 376 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:52.400 the first time someone is using a neuralink device to 377 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:59.079 fully control their cursor. This is not your ordinary brain 378 00:24:59.160 --> 00:25:04.599 controlled cursor. This is actually a record breaking control, literally 379 00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:08.519 on day one, beating decades of brain computer research. And 380 00:25:08.519 --> 00:25:11.039 I'm about to show you the clip on day one, 381 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:14.039 Nolan breaking the b c I world record. 382 00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:24.359 Ship good. 383 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:30.279 Man, he's a new world record holder. 384 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:38.839 There's one of surprise. 385 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:41.359 I thought it was higher. 386 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:44.519 I thought I would have to get to five or something. 387 00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:46.799 Oh my gosh, that's crazy. 388 00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:48.680 It's pretty cool. 389 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:55.359 Uh yeah. 390 00:25:55.559 --> 00:25:58.079 Another really fun thing you could do with the neuralink 391 00:25:58.079 --> 00:26:01.160 device outside of controlling a computer cursors. You can actually 392 00:26:01.640 --> 00:26:03.880 plug it in through USB through a lot of different devices. 393 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:08.000 And here we actually have Nolan playing Mario Kart. Now, 394 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:11.640 what's special about this particular clip is Nolan is not 395 00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:13.440 the only cyborg playing Mario Kart. 396 00:26:13.480 --> 00:26:14.039 In this clip. 397 00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:17.640 We actually have a whole community of users as mentioned earlier, 398 00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:20.680 and this is literally five of our first users of 399 00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:33.400 neuraling playing Mario Kart together over call. Yeah, now, yeah, 400 00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:34.359 Mario Kart. 401 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:35.279