American company Neuralink, of which the owner of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, is the founder, published on Friday, April 9, 2021, on YouTube a video in which he appears a monkey with a chip implanted in his brain playing a video game he controls from his mind.
In the video, it lasts three and a half minutes, The nine-year-old macager Pager plays a version of the classic video game Pong and every time he succeeds, he receives as compensation a banana shake which is provided to him by a straw.
In his Twitter account, Musk said that the monkey “literally plays the telepathic video game using a brain chip.”
Earlier this year, the controversial inventor had already announced in a video chat on the social network ClubHouse that in his company had a monkey with a wireless implant in its skull, with small cables and that he could play video games with his mind, but the images have not come to light so far.
According to the businessman, the animal “It’s not uncomfortable” and his goal is to see if the monkeys can play Pong in their minds. against each other as part of their research to develop a brain-device wireless interface.
A few months ago, Neuralink successfully tested a chip in pigs that, implanted in the skull, made it possible to measure brain activity in animals.
Musk said that among the potential capabilities of the technology that Neuralink is investigating is driving a Tesla car with thoughts., playing video games, saving and replaying memories, or walking back on people with spinal cord injuries.
The businessman assured that in the short term Neuralink can “solve the brain-spine injuries” and in the long term can achieve a “symbiosis of artificial-human intelligence”.