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There's Neuralink—and There's the Mind-Reading Company That Might Surpass It
Unlike Elon Musk's brain-computer interface, Synchron's doesn't require open-skull surgery, and it has an OpenAI chatbot baked in.
Synchron’s main competitor, Elon Musk ’s Neuralink, removes a piece of skull and replaces it with a coin-sized device that hooks directly into the brain tissue via 64 robotically positioned wire threads. And though it’s not Synchron’s goal, its minimally invasive technology could eventually lead to safe, unobtrusive devices that might one day allow anyone to play a video game or surf the web with their thoughts alone. A Darpa program manager thought his invention could be a way for soldiers who had lost limbs to control robotic arms, and invited Oxley to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to pitch his idea.
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