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“#Could Elon Musk’s brain chips make us all as smart as he is?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Elon Musk\u2019s brain isn\u2019t like most people\u2019s. When he isn\u2019t content with how something works, he reinvents it: cars, rockets \u2014 and now, cities. This week, he announced he\u2019s planning a new town in south Texas called \u201cStarbase.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea is to take over the unincorporated seaside village of Boca Chica, a kind of mini Texan Cape Canaveral some 355 miles from Austin, where his SpaceX already has a massive rocket facility. It\u2019s all part of his mission to bring humans to Mars in this decade. (Even if, this week, one of the prototype Starship<\/a> rockets went up in flames during a test flight, a not-unexpected part of working out the kinks.)<\/p>\n

Now he\u2019s using his own superpower, his intellect, to give humans a chance to be as smart as he is. He may change our minds forever with Neuralink<\/a>, which aims to use implanted brain chips to improve the human body \u2014 and help us compete with AI.<\/p>\n

Then there are his other side hustles, like the HyperLoop transportation network \u2014 sort of like high-speed rail, but with pressurized capsules \u2014 being designed by his Boring Company, or his Starlink satellite system.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s no doubting Musk\u2019s intelligence, or curiosity or even his bandwidth to change the world. But as his outsize ego and Twitter<\/a> explosions get him in trouble, some skeptics wonder if he\u2019s just an ego-mad \u00adbillionaire: superhero or supervillain?<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s definitely something super\u00adhuman or even alien about his brain,\u201d pioneering game<\/a>r and engineer Garry Kitchen<\/a> told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething\u2019s happ<\/a>ening like it\u2019s firing on all cylinders all the time, like some kind of a mutation or DNA malfunction. The same thing could be said of Einstein who rewrote physics at age 22. But what makes Musk different is how he sees no limits and has no fear. And he doesn\u2019t care if people think he\u2019s crazy. That\u2019s what makes him one of a kind.\u201d<\/p>\n

While his future \u201cStarbase\u201d and his exploding rocket commandeered attention this week, microchipped pigs with names like Gertrude, Barbara, Cleo and Dorothy were walking treadmills<\/a> at his brain implant startup in San Francisco. The pigs, and at least one monkey, are the test pilots, in effect, as Musk\u2019s team develops high-bandwidth interfaces to connect humans and computers.<\/p>\n

Formed in 2016, Neuralink is one of Musk\u2019s more secretive offshoots. The immediate goals of the endeavor are treating traumatic brain injuries. Musk says paralyzed people who get Neuralink\u2019s electronic brain chip installed in their skulls, for instance, could conceivably walk again.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThink of it as Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires,\u201d he said in a rare video from Neuralink\u2019s headquarters<\/a> in August about the implant, which is the size of a large coin. \u201cYou can get a link in an hour without general<\/a> anesthesia and leave hospital the same day. You need a great device and a great robot who puts in the electrodes and does surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk has said humans are \u201calready \u00adcyborgs\u201d because of access to smartphones and computers. Neuralink, he says, will close that gap and prep us for the future. Adding a digital layer to the brain\u2019s limbic system and cortex may be humanity\u2019s only hope of matching the exponential and possibly sinister rise of artificial intelligence. Otherwise, Musk said, humans may sink to the level of \u201chouse cats.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The MIT Technology<\/a> Review dissed Neuralink\u2019s work so far as \u201cneuroscience theater\u201d<\/a> and heavy on hype.<\/p>\n

But Ray Kurzweil, Google\u2019s director of engineering and a futurist credited with the idea of \u201cthe singularity,\u201d<\/a> says machines could surpass humans in intelligence by 2030 and time is of the essence for companies like Neuralink to help humans keep up.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor interacting directly with the brain, we need more speed,\u201d Kurzweil told The Post. \u201cWhen we get to the 2030s, we will have neural net technologies at Google that go way beyond what is feasible today. These will .\u2009.\u2009. exceed human intelligence. For this to be something that makes humans smarter rather than just competing with humans, we need an ability to interact with our neocortex. But that has to be done at a fast speed, far greater than what we can do now.\u201d<\/p>\n