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Neuralink is planning to implant its brain chip into a second human patient within "the next week or so," according to a livestream with Elon Musk and Neuralink executives. This comes after the company implanted its first human patient, 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, earlier this year. However, only around 15% of the channels in Arbaugh's implant are functional.
The company is making changes to the surgical procedure and placement of the device to avoid problems that arose with its first participant, whose implant partially detached from the brain a few weeks after surgery.
Neuralink plans to insert some threads deeper into the brain tissue and track how much movement occurs. It also plans to "sculpt the surface of the skull" to minimize the gap under the implant, which should "minimize the gap under the implant" and "put it closer to the brain and eliminate some of the tension on the threads."
The company is working on a next-generation implant that has 128 threads, each with eight electrodes per thread, a change that he says will "potentially double the bandwidth if we are accurate with the placement of the threads." Neuralink's goal is to help people with disabilities in the short term, but Musk said his long-term goal is to use BCI technology "to mitigate the civilizational risk of AI by having a closer symbiosis between human intelligence and digital intelligence."

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