- Elon Musk’s Neuralink implanted a chip that enabled a monkey to “play video games using his mind.”
- Musk claimed as much in a wide-ranging interview on Clubhouse on Sunday night.
- Neuralink is focused on human-computer interfaces for artificial intelligence in people.
Elon Musk’s human-computer-interface company, Neuralink, seems to be off to a strong start.
“We’ve already got a monkey with a wireless implant in their skull, and the tiny wires, who can play video games using his mind,” Musk said in an interview on the “Good Time Show” on the app Clubhouse on Sunday night.
“One of the things we’re trying to figure out is can we have the monkeys play mind ‘Pong’ with each other,” he said. “That would be pretty cool.”
Neuralink has been testing neural interfaces on animals for years. In a video released last year, Neuralink demonstrated its work on a pig named Gertrude.
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