A video appeared on YouTube showing a monkey playing Pong Thanks to a Neuralink di Elon Musk which he implanted in the brain. Pager, this is the name of the cute animal, is a 9-year-old macaque monkey who had a Nueralink implanted in his brain for 6 weeks. In this period she was taught to use a joystick, using a banana smoothie as a reward for your progress.
Il neural device recorded the activated neurons over the whole time, learning to understand in advance which hand would be used based on the activated brain area. At the end of the period the joystick was disconnected from the computer, e the monkey played Pong using only his brain.
Elon Musk, notoriously a great lover of videogame meidium, said about it:
The Neuralink will allow people with paralysis to use a smartphone with their brain faster than someone using their fingers.
Future versions will be able to divert signals from the Neuralink on the brain to the Neuralink in the body's sensory / motion neuron clusters, thus allowing, for example, paraplegics to walk again.
The device is implanted with a wire in the skull and charges wirelessly, so you feel and feel totally normal.
In short, the eccentric entrepreneur is confident in the applications of his device for helping people born with mobility problems. But this is only one of the many possible applications of devices of this type. In fact, as the video shows, they can use for example also in the field of entertainment.
Recall that the Neuralink is a neural interface that can be connected to the brain and what to learn from it. It is mainly developed with the aim of helping people with disabilities and motor powers, but it is not certain that it cannot be used in other ways, as demonstrated by the monkey who plays video games with the Neuralink created by Elon Musk. The entrepreneur is aiming for one symbiosis between humans and artificial intelligence, as he sees the latter as potentially dangerous if left unchecked.
