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| Elon musk shares video of his neuralink monkey playing video games with its mind |
The First Neuralink production would enable a person with paralysis to be able to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone that’s Making use of thumbs,’ the tech billionaire says
Elon Musk’s brain-computer startup Neuralink has revealed a monkey that was able to play video games using only its mind.
in a video example that was shared by Mr Musk a nine-year-old macaque monkey named Pager with a Neuralink inserted on each side of his brain.
The two chips, implanted flush with the skull, sent brain signals from the monkey passing through a 1,024 electrode transmission device named the N1 Link. The neural action is then decoded and calibrated in order to predict the monkey’s thoughts.
Within six weeks of practice, the monkey had developed the ability to play the 1970’s video game classic Pong with a banana smoothie as a reward.
Neuralink’s video stated that To control his paddle on the right side of the screen, Pager simply thinks about moving his hand up or down.
“As you can see, Pager is amazingly good at mind Pong. He’s focussed and he’s playing entirely of his own volition. It’s not magic, the reason Neuralink works is because it’s recording and decoding electrical signals from the brain.”
In a statement Elon Musk claimed his Neuralink chip will allow you to stream music to your brain directly.
A video also released showed significant progress towards Neuralink’s vision of providing direct neural control of a computer cursor to people with paralysis.
Watch video of Neuralink Monkey playing game with its mind here:
Monkey MindPong https://t.co/7zstTZ1X1w pic.twitter.com/GYrYNsJ68u
— Neuralink (@neuralink) April 8, 2021
Mr Musk tweeted “First Neuralink product will enable someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone using thumbs. Later versions will be able to shunt signals from Neuralinks in brain to Neuralinks in body motor, sensory neuron clusters, thus enabling, for example, paraplegics to walk again”
First @Neuralink product will enable someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone using thumbs
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2021
The device is implanted flush with skull & charges wirelessly, so you look & feel totally normal
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2021
Mr Musk said that human trials would begin later this year.
