{"id":2741,"date":"2021-02-01T17:47:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1336886"},"modified":"2021-02-01T17:47:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:47:20","slug":"elon-musk-claims-neuralink-created-a-brain-implant-that-a-monkey-is-using-to-play-video-games-with-his-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk claims Neuralink created a brain implant that a monkey is using \u2018to play video games with his mind\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elon Musk claims his startup Neuralink has connected a chip to a monkey\u2019s brain that the primate is now using to play video games with its mind.<\/p>\n<p>Musk said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2020\/08\/31\/i-was-excited-for-neuralink-then-i-watched-elon-musks-stupid-demo\/\">Neuralink<\/a>&nbsp;is currently developing&nbsp;brain implants&nbsp;that help people with paralysis control devices with their thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the tech could also enable&nbsp;people&nbsp;to communicate through their minds&nbsp;or&nbsp;save their brain&nbsp;state&nbsp;so when they die&nbsp;it gets uploaded to another body.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-gQn-evdsAo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Tesla tycoon provided the rare update on Neuralink during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joinclubhouse.com\/event\/PQ488GWn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">a Sunday appearance<\/a> on the invite-only Clubhouse app.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2021\/01\/21\/how-this-company-leveraged-ai-to-become-the-netflix-of-finland\/\">How this company leveraged AI to become the Netflix of Finland<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He described the device as \u201ca Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires that go to your brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"6\">\n<p>We\u2019ve already got a monkey with a wireless implant in their skull and the tiny wires who can play video games using his mind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you\u2019re worried about the poor animal with cables sticking into his brain,&nbsp;Musk promised that \u201che\u2019s a happy monkey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said an inspector from the US Department of Agriculture called the lab \u201cthe nicest monkey facilities she\u2019d ever seen in her career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/hardfork\/2020\/11\/24\/elon-musk-second-richest-billionaire-bloomberg-bill-gates-jeff-bezos-tesla-stock\/\">world\u2019s richest person<\/a> now wants the simians to \u201cplay mind-Pong with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also invited&nbsp;anyone who\u2019s worked on advanced wearables, phones, or robots to apply for a job at Neuralink.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.916030534351\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Please consider working at Neuralink!<\/p>\n<p>Short-term: solve brain\/spine injuries<br \/>Long-term: human\/AI symbiosis <\/p>\n<p>Latter will be species-level important <\/p>\n<p>Work at either at our Bay Area or Austin locations <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LPzDrWO8h3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/LPzDrWO8h3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1356027336387252235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">January 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Slowing down the hype train<\/h2>\n<p>Neuralink\u2019s tests have thus far been limited to&nbsp;pigs and primates, but that didn\u2019t prevent Musk from speculating on the potential for humans:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p>If two people had a Neuralink, you could do conceptual telepathy, where you have a complex series of concepts and you can just transfer them directly, uncompressed to the other person. This would massively improve the quality of communication and the speed of it.&nbsp;There are other pretty wild things that could be done. You could probably save state in the brain and so if you were to die your state could be returned in another human body or a robot body.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk added that Neuralink has already successfully tested implantation, removal, and reimplantation. He said the company will \u201cprobably\u201d soon release new videos that show its progress.<\/p>\n<p>But Musk\u2019s claims&nbsp;should be taken with a large pinch of salt for now.<\/p>\n<p>The SpaceX founder previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019-04-22-tesla-elon-musk-self-driving-robo-taxi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">promised<\/a> to have a million robo-taxis on the road in 2020. His recent Neuralink demo also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2020\/08\/31\/i-was-excited-for-neuralink-then-i-watched-elon-musks-stupid-demo\/\">didn\u2019t live up to the hype<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1336912 lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/02\/50280652497_43cf548509_o.jpg\" alt width=\"1640\" height=\"1067\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/02\/50280652497_43cf548509_o.jpg 1640w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/02\/50280652497_43cf548509_o-280x182.jpg 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/02\/50280652497_43cf548509_o-415x270.jpg 415w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/02\/50280652497_43cf548509_o-207x135.jpg 207w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/02\/50280652497_43cf548509_o-796x518.jpg 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/02\/50280652497_43cf548509_o-1592x1036.jpg 1592w\"><figcaption>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44124348109@N01\/50280652497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Jurvetson<\/a><\/figcaption><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2021\/02\/01\/elon-musk-claims-neuralink-created-a-brain-implant-that-a-monkey-is-using-to-play-video-games-with-his-mind\/#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2021%2F02%2F01%2Felon-musk-claims-neuralink-created-a-brain-implant-that-a-monkey-is-using-to-play-video-games-with-his-mind%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: Musk did a live demo of a Neuralink device earlier this year.\" data-title=\"Share Musk did a live demo of a Neuralink device earlier this year. on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share Musk did a live demo of a Neuralink device earlier this year. on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>Musk did a live demo of a Neuralink device earlier this year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Neuralink was one of many topics Musk covered during his 90-minute Clubhouse Q&amp;A. As well as monkeys, he mused on Mars, memes, and meetings.<\/p>\n<p>He also had a chat with&nbsp;the CEO of Robinhood about the app\u2019s controversial decision to disable trading for <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/hardfork\/2021\/01\/29\/out-of-the-loop-about-gamestop-heres-a-handy-reading-list\/\">GameStop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you wanna hear about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/world\/elon-musk-space-karen-coronavirus-b71634.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Space Karen\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;plans to build your&nbsp;cars, put chips in your brain, and take you to Mars, you can catch a stream of the conversation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cba53J1jyPM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\"> Published February 1, 2021 \u2014 17:47 UTC <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2021\/02\/01\/elon-musk-claims-neuralink-created-a-brain-implant-that-a-monkey-is-using-to-play-video-games-with-his-mind\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk claims his startup Neuralink has connected a chip to a monkey\u2019s brain that the primate is now using to play video games with its mind. Musk said&nbsp;Neuralink&nbsp;is currently developing&nbsp;brain implants&nbsp;that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}