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The tech billionaire Elon Musk says his Neuralink company has successfully implanted one of its wireless brain chips in a human for the first time.

Writing on his X microblog, Mr Musk said initial results had detected promising neuron spikes, or nerve impulses - and that the patient was recovering well from Sunday's operation.

The aim is for the chips to act as an interface with the brain to help tackle complex neurological conditions, such as allowing paralysed people to control devices with their thoughts.

Neuralink is not alone in its work, a number of rival companies have already implanted similar devices.

Takara Small is a technology reporter in Canada. She told Newsday that Mr Musk 鈥渉as said that he hopes to merge the human mind with AI鈥� and that his latest feat will bring 鈥渁ttention and with that a lot of capital and investment鈥�.

She said: 鈥淭his type of technology will change the world. The ability to provide people who are suffering from paralysis with the ability to control devices with their brain鈥�.it doesn鈥檛 get much more futuristic than that.鈥�

However, she is concerned that the development of this technology is in the private domain. She added: 鈥淚t鈥檚 important to note that this type of breakthrough technology isn鈥檛 happening in the public space鈥�we have to鈥�think about what does this mean for the future? What does this mean for equity and equality around the world? And who should say who gets it and who doesn鈥檛?鈥�

(Picture: Shows Elon Musk. Credit: Nathan Laine / Bloomberg via Getty Images.)

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