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Monkey Plays Video Games Using Only Its Mind With Tech by Elon Musk’s Neuralink – My Modern Met
No, the monkey isn’t playing Donkey Kong, but he’s gotten really good at Pong.
In 2019, when Elon Musk first mentioned that his startup Neuralink had created technology that allowed a monkey to play a computer game with its mind, some were skeptical. But a recent video released by the company shows that the technology they are developing is no joke. After having Neuralink’s wireless brain-machine interface (BMI) embedded into his brain, a 9-year-old macaque monkey named Pager was able to play Pong using his mind.
How does it work? First, Pager had the device implanted into…
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