For the first time, Elon Musk has shared video footage of his brain-chip technology Neuralink. The implantable chip allows the brain to communicate with computers. In a video released late Thursday, a macaque monkey implanted with Neuralink’s technology appears to play a Pong-style tennis video game without using a controller of any kind.
In the video, a narrator explains that the macaque, named Pager, has two Neuralink chips implanted in his brain. These chips pull and record information from more than 2,000 electrodes that have been placed in Pager’s motor cortex in order to register his desired hand and arm movements.
First, Pager plays a computer game using a joystick. The Neuralink chips record that information. The Neuralink wirelessly communicates neural activity to a database, where it is matched with Pager’s hand movements, so it can be processed and analyzed. Then the joystick is taken away and Pager is set up to play the game just using his brain. This time, the…
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