Published 20:38 IST, August 26th 2020

Elon Musk's company Neuralink to hold its second public event this week; Details inside

Elon Musk's human brain link up firm Neuralink will be holding its second public event on Friday, August 28, 2020. See details about the event here.

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Elon Musk’s human brain link up firm Neuralink is set to hold its second-ever public event this week. firm has remained quite secretive about its activities and developments so far.  mission statement for Neuralink is"If you can’t beat 'em, join ‘em.”

Its first-ever public event was held in July 2019. This year event is set to be held on Friday, August 28. company is set to demonstrate human brain’s neurons firing in real-time during its event. Here is everything you need to kw about Neuralink event.

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What goal is Elon Musk trying to achieve through Neuralink?

company’s motto hints at one of Musk's biggest goals with Neuralink. According to company’s official website, firm is currently focused on creating chips which could help medical patients. Elon Musk has been vocal of his fear about artificial intelligence and how it could one day outsmart humanity. 

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Hence in true Musk fashion, he created company Neuralink in 2016. In a 2019 interview with inverse.com, Musk had reasoned that his company could help humans communicate more effectively with smarter systems and one-day humans might be able to develop a symbiotic relationship with machines.

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He also said that it is crucial that Neuralink solves this problem sooner rar than later. This is because as per Musk, we will soon have digital superintelligence, and when we will pass singularity, things will become just very uncertain.

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What do we kw about Neuralink event?

Considering last years’ event, this year it can be expected that Neuralink will provide more information about human trials which y are about to undertake. And on July 18, Musk had reportedly put out a call for engineers who could solve "hard problems with phones/wearables" to join his team at Neuralink.

On July 30, 49-year-old businessman had responded to a Twitter post about brain's 86 billion neurons. Musk took to his Twitter to explain that, re are few neurons which fire several times per second, while ors may go minutes without firing. He also claimed that his firm will be giving a demo of this capability at upcoming event.

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How to watch Neuralink event?

So far human brain link up firm has t released details about its next event beyond date. However, last year's event was held at California Academy of Sciences’ Morrison Planetarium. During event, Neuralink hosted a Livestream on its official YouTube channel, thus enabling fans to watch it worldwide. Hence, keeping an eye out for Friday event’s Livestream is only option.

20:38 IST, August 26th 2020