Looking even further into the future, Musk said Neuralink's long-term goal is to improve the symbiosis between artificial intelligence and humans by increasing a person's ability to communicate. Without such an enhancement, AI would become "bored" waiting for people to communicate at a few bits per second, while the technology can do so at terabits per second, according to Fortune.
In March, Neuralink performed the first brain chip implant in a human patient: American Noland Arbaugh, quadriplegic since 2016. He gained the ability to play video games using his mind.
Despite the gains made, the executive emphasized that Neuralink is focused on first treating damaged neurons in the spinal cord, neck or brain, as the company's first patients.
"We're just starting with the basics here, the simple ones. Relatively speaking, it's resolving neuron damage."