OMG! Monkey playing video games? Elon Musk's Neuralink shows something like that (Watch)

Elon Musk's new uploaded video on Twitter featuring a monkey playing video games has gone viral.

Bangalore, First Published Apr 10, 2021, 2:21 PM IST | Last Updated Apr 10, 2021, 2:21 PM IST

Elon Musk's new startup, Neuralink, is an implantable brain machine that interludes to connect human brain cells to computers. In the video, we can see Pager, a 9-year old macaque monkey who had a Neuralink implanted six weeks ago.

He was playing Ping-Pong. At first, he was taught to play with a joystick and eventually, it was removed only to let him play using his mind. The Neuralink's statement said, "We are pleased to reveal the Link's capability to enable a macaque monkey, named Pager, to move a cursor on a computer screen with neural activity using a 1,024 electrode fully-implanted neural recording and data transmission device."

They further revealed, "We can go further than simply predicting the most likely intended movement given the current pattern of brain activity: we can use these predictions to control, in real time, the movements of a computer cursor, or in the video, a MindPong paddle."

Taking to Elon's Twitter handle, he shared the youtube link with a caption. He wrote, "Monkey plays Pong with his mind."

Since its upload, netizens have gone crazy. One of the users commented, "We don't even know what we're going to achieve with technology in a few years, I'm so exited!!" While, another one wrote, "This is insane."

In another tweet, Elon mentioned that the first Neuralink product would provide "someone with paralysis to use a smartphone with their mind faster than someone using thumbs."

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