Elon Musk, strikes again, video recruiting for his company, Neuralink, by displaying a pig (Gertrude) with a coin-sized neural implant (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/28/neuralink-elon-musk-pig-computer-implant). The implant (no real details provided) is described as "a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires". Neural implants have been medically used in attempts to assist quadriplegics but we are not told details of the device or where it is located. Musk, however, is not limiting his aspirations to movement control but hopes to use implants to improve human cognitive ability (so that it can compete with Artificial Intelligence). Another pig was displayed in which it was claimed (again no details) that the animal had been implanted and then had had the device successfully removed (with no negative consequences). Animal research is regulated differently in the USA but, in the UK, it would be very difficult to do this kind of work (even in a specialist animal research laboratory) just to make a commercial pitch.
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