'Literally playing': Elon Musk reveals how Neuralink made monkey play video game

As Elon Musk on April 8 shared a picture of a monkey playing Ping Pong with its mind, several internet users flooded comment section with reactions and questions related to Neuralink. Self-appointed “techking” Musk, unveiled a new video of a nine-year-old monkey named “Pr” learning to control a computer with his brain activity. In clip, narrator stated that Pr has two Neuralink devices implanted in his brain and furr informed that Neuralink devices recorded information about which neurons were firing as monkey played game. 

In a series of tweets, Musk first said that monkey is “literally playing a video game telepathically using a brain chip”. In following posts, Tesla CEO n said that first Neuralink product will enable someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with ir mind faster than someone using thumbs. He furr also informed that later versions will also 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. 

Netizen call it ‘amazing’ 

Following Musk’s tweets, while one Twitter user jokingly wrote, “Will I be able to kw what my parents are thinking at all times if y have it,” ar asked, “...could I input a neural memory of how to play "Fur Elise" and my fingers receive impulses and play it?”. One user simply said, “That’s literally amazing”. “Hearing about it is cool but I'm pretty excited to watch someone disabled walk again with this tech. Godspeed sir,” wrote fourth. 

Meanwhile, back in February Musk had teased Neuralink had wired up a monkey's brain to play video games during a Clubhouse meeting. Calling it a ‘primitive’ Neuralink idea, Musk said that eventually one morning humanity would wake up to a mind t same and an individual could decide wher y would want to be a “robot or a person". In chatroom, Tesla’s CEO said that he believes people were already ‘cyborg’, and have a ‘tertiary layer in form of smartphones'. He stressed enhancing human brain and techlogically revolutionizing mind with AI, stressing that brain required a direct neural interface to increase magnitude of ‘processing’.

(Im: AP/Twitter)