> Musk decided to do some-
> thing about the problem and create a direct interface between
> his brain and a computer to communicate at his unfettered
> rate: ‘‘From a long-term existential standpoint, that’s, like, the
> purpose of Neuralink, to create a high-bandwidth interface to
> the brain such that we can be symbiotic with AI,’’ he said.
> ‘‘Because we have a bandwidth problem. You just can’t commu-
> nicate through your fingers. It’s just too slow.’’
> Based on the research reviewed here regarding the rate of hu-
> man cognition, we predict that Musk’s brain will communicate
> with the computer at about 10 bits/s. Instead of the bundle of
> Neuralink electrodes, Musk could just use a telephone, whose
> data rate has been designed to match human language, which,
> in turn, is matched to the speed of perception and cognition.
this is also a bad and really incurious take
yes you'll run into the central processing limit but you'll still get on the order of 1kB/s into the brain and it will be the brain's job to make sense of it and distill it down, which means it can be used for things that are much more interesting than pure language, such as motor control (bypassing what they call the 'inner brain')