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Watch a monkey equipped with Elon Musk's Neuralink device play Pong with its brain
9 days ago | By TechCrunch
Elon Musk's Neuralink, one of his many companies and the only one currently focused on mind control , has released a new blog post and video detailing some of its recent updates - including using its hardware to make it possible for a monkey to play pong with only its brain.
In the video above, Neuralink demonstrates how it used its sensor hardware and brain implant to record a baseline of activity from this macaque as it played a game on-screen where it had to move a token to different squares using a joystick with its hand. Using that baseline data, Neuralink was able to use machine...
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Watch: Elon Musk's Neuralink says this monkey is playing Pong with its mind
9 days ago | By The Verge
Neuralink, Elon Musk's company focused on developing brain-machine interfaces, has posted a video to YouTube that appears to show a monkey navigating an on-screen cursor using only its mind.
Pager, a 9-year-old macaque monkey, had a Neuralink implanted about six weeks before the video was shot, the video's unnamed narrator says. He was first taught to play video games with a joystick for a banana smoothie reward, delivered through a metal straw. While he was doing this, the Neuralink device recorded information about which neurons were firing - learning, essentially, to predict hand...
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Neuralink's brain-computer interface demo shows a monkey playing Pong
9 days ago | By Engadget
Elon Musk's Neuralink is building brain-computer interfaces, like the one that allows this monkey to control a game of Pong with its thoughts.
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Stunning Neuralink video shows monkey playing Pong using its mind
9 days ago | By SlashGear
Pong is back, but not in the way you think. Elon Musk's Neuralink has just shared a video showing a monkey playing the iconic game, doing so only using its mind to control the paddles. The key to this seemingly magical ability, of course, is a small implant called Neuralink placed in the monkey's brain and the software used to...
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Elon Musk's Neuralink reveals monkey playing Pong with brain implant - CNET
9 days ago | By CNET
A new Neuralink video shows nine-year-old Macaque playing the classic video game... using a brain-implant device.
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