Zuckerberg Says Musk's Neuralink Chips May Be Practical In Several Decades

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined the company's approach to neural interface technology — tech which lets you control technology with your mind — in an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

Photo Insert: Zuckerberg said Meta is researching neural interface tech as part of its push into the metaverse.

Zuckerberg said Meta is researching neural interface tech as part of its push into the metaverse, Isobel Asher Hamilton reported for Business Insider.

He said the company is primarily focused on tech which can receive signals from the brain but does send any information back to it. "The super-hard part here is going to be having a computer give you information straight into your brain, and that's not a thing that we're working on," Zuckerberg said.

He compared this to Elon Musk's neural interface company Neuralink, which is developing a chip that it hopes to one day implant into people's skulls with electrodes fanning out into the brain that are able to both record and stimulate brain activity.

"Some people, like Elon with Neuralink and those companies, that's just taking this like super far-off. I mean maybe it'll be ready in a couple of decades," Zuckerberg said. He joked with host Joe Rogan that no one will want to be an early adopter of Neuralink.

"Normal people I think in the next 10 or 15 years are probably not going to want to get something just installed in their brain for fun," Zuckerberg said.

"You want the mature version of that [technology], not the one where it's gonna get a lot better next year and you need to get your brain implant upgraded every year," he said.

Musk has made outlandish claims about what Neuralink will be able to do, saying it will be like a "Fitbit in your skull" and claiming it will facilitate a symbiosis between human consciousness and AI. Neuralink has not yet started human testing, but rival biotech firm Synchron began trials on human subjects in July.

Zuckerberg added there will be near-term applications for tech like Neuralink for "people with injuries." Neuralink said in a public statement in July 2021 that it was working towards a first use for its chip, enabling quadriplegic people to control a cursor on a screen using their minds.

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