ELON MUSK'S NEURALINK JOINS STUDY WORKING TOWARD A BIONIC EYE

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Neuralink is collaborating with researchers in California and Spain on a clinical trial to study visual prosthetics. The study, sponsored by the University of California at Santa Barbara, aims to address the fundamental questions that will allow the development of a Smart Bionic Eye. Such a device would use AI to help blind people identify faces, navigate the outdoors, and read, among other things. The study's description says that researchers will use Neuralink patients 'once available'. Neuralink is developing a brainchip called Blindsight that aims to restore vision to blind people and grant superhuman vision.