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Neuralink’s monkey can play Pong with its mind. Imagine what humans could do with the same technology – The Conversation AU
Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface technology could bring humans and computers closer together than ever before, and herald a new frontier in healthcare
Some weeks ago, a nine-year-old macaque monkey called Pager successfully played a game of Pong with its mind.
While it may sound like science fiction, the demonstration by Elon Musks neurotechnology company Neuralink is an example of a brain-machine interface in action (and has been done before).
A coin-sized disc called a Link was implanted by a precision surgical robot into Pagers brain, connecting thousands of micro threads from the chip to neurons responsible for controlling motion.
Brain-machine…
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