By Nickie Louise
In the summer of last year, Elon Musk demonstrated Neuralink’s AI-powered brain implant in live pigs. During the demonstration, Musk showed the uses and applications of Neuralink with three pigs implanted with Link V0.9 chips. Musk told the audience that the implementation would one day be able to cure affectations of the human body such as blindness, brain damage, and cure addictions.
Fast forward six months later. This evening, Musk shared a video of Pager, a nine-year-old Macaque, playing a MindPong video game telepathically using a brain chip. In a series of tweets, Musk explained that the first Neuralink product will enable someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone using thumbs.
Musk added that later versions of Neuralink will be able to “shunt signals from Neuralinks in the brain to Neuralinks in body motor/sensory neuron clusters, thus enabling, for example, paraplegics to walk again.”
Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter): “A monkey is literally playing a video game telepathically using a brain chip!! / X”
A monkey is literally playing a video game telepathically using a brain chip!!
Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter): “First @Neuralink product will enable someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone using thumbs / X”
First @Neuralink product will enable someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone using thumbs
Elon Musk on X (formerly Twitter): “The device is implanted flush with skull & charges wirelessly, so you look & feel totally normal / X”
The device is implanted flush with skull & charges wirelessly, so you look & feel totally normal
You can watch the video below.
Monkey MindPong
Pager, a nine year old Macaque, plays MindPong with his Neuralink. www.neuralink.com
This article originally appeared in Tech Startups
