Elon Musk: Brain Computer Interfaces - Machine Learning and Neuroplasticity

On the human side, there’s this incredible general malleability, plasticity of the humanbrain. The human brain adapts, adjusts, and so on.It’s not that plastic, to be totally frank.So there’s a firm structure, but nevertheless, there’s some plasticity. And the open questionis, if I could ask a broad question, is how much that plasticity can be utilized? On the

human side there’s some plasticity in the human brain and on the machine side we haveneural networks machine learning artificial intelligence it’s able to adjust and figureout signals so there’s a mysterious language that we don’t perfectly understand that’s within thehuman brain and then we’re trying to understand that language to communicate both directionsso the brain is adjusting a little bit we don’t know how much and the machine is adjusting where

Where do you see, as they try to sort of reach together,almost like with an alien species,try to find a protocol, communication protocol that works,where do you see the biggest benefit arriving from?On the machine side or the human side?

Do you see both of them working together?I actually think the machine side is far more malleablethan the biological side by a huge amount.So it’ll be the machine that adapts to the brain.That’s the only thing that’s possible.

the brain can’t adapt that well to the machine.You can’t have neurons start to regard an electrode as another neuron,because neurons are just like the pulse, and so something else is pulsing.So there is that elasticity in the interface,which we believe is something that can happen,

but the vast majority of the malleability will have to be on the machine side.But it’s interesting, when you look at that synaptic plasticity at the interface side,there might be like an emergent plasticity because it’s a whole nother it’s not like inthe brain it’s a whole nother extension of the brain you know we might have to redefine whatit means to be malleable for the brain so maybe the brain is able to adjust to external interfaces

there will be some adjustments the brain because there’s going to be somethingreading and simulating the the brain and so it will adjust to to that thingBut the vast majority of the adjustment will be on the machine side.This is just, it has to be that, otherwise it will not work.Thank you.