| Title | Watch a Monkey Equipped with Elon Musk’s Neuralink Device Play Pong Using Just its Brain | |
| Date | Sunday April 11 2021, @08:34AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the this-ain't-no-monkey-business dept. | ||
Watch a monkey equipped with Elon Musk’s Neuralink device play Pong with its brain – TechCrunch:
The last we saw of Neuralink, Musk himself was demonstrating the Link tech live[*] in August 2020, using pigs[**] to show how it was able to read signals from the brain depending on different stimuli. This new demo with Pager[***] more clearly outlines the direction that the tech is headed in terms of human applications, since, as the company shared on its blog, the same technology could be used to help patients with paralysis manipulate a cursor on a computer, for instance. That could be applied to other paradigms as well, including touch controls on an iPhone, and even typing using a virtual keyboard, according to the company.
[...] Musk separately tweeted that in fact, he expects the initial version of Neuralink’s product to be able to allow someone with paralysis that prevents standard modes of phone interaction to use one faster than people using their thumbs for input. He also added that future iterations of the product would be able to enable communication between Neuralinks in different parts of a patient’s body, transmitting between an in-brain node and neural pathways in legs, for instance, making it possible for “paraplegics to walk again.”
Videos:
[*] Watch Elon Musk's ENTIRE live Neuralink demonstration (1h12m46s)
[**] Snout Boops (1m28s)
[***] Monkey MindPong (3m29s)
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