Elon Musk’s Neuralink: what’s science and what’s not

Elon Musk showed off the latest progress on his Neuralink brain interface last month. But his biggest claims — telepathy, merging brains with AI — weren’t exactly thought through. So what will it take to connect the latest tech to arguably the most mysterious thing in the universe: the human brain? Read more: Neuralink’s website: Neuralink’s August livestream: 2000 study on primate neural control of robotic hardware: 2004 study on recording navigational brain activity in fish: 2006 study on human neural control of a computer interface: 2018 study on recording mouse memory neurons: (18) Subscribe: Like Verge Science on Facebook: Follo