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Neuralink: Enhancing Human Intelligence through AI

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Human machine interaction has always been a hot topic, specifically after the advent of Artificial intelligence. The social impact of such interactions is huge to say the very least. AI has more often than not has taken inspiration from the biological neural-architectures to be able enough, to do a significant number of tasks, tasks at which, it is now able to outperform the biological neurons as well [1] . There have been a number of attempts [2] to utilise AI to enhance human capabilities through Brain-machine-interfaces or BMIs [3] . Historically the integration of the BMIs into the human skull has been quite an invasive process. The normal procedures generally required a complete surgery, where the skull was cut open and the electrodes inserted into the brain tissue with the opening then sewed back together. The procedure was not only invasive and complicated in nature but also ran the risk of catching an infection or can be the catalyst for a stroke for the individual receiving