Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chip Allows Patient To Play Chess by Controlling Mind, Check Viral Video
New Delhi: Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink showed its first patient being able to play online chess and video games just by his thoughts, using a brain chip by the Neuralink. A video was widely shared on the social media showing the patient implanted with a chip.
The patient in the video introduced himself as 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh, who was paralysed below the shoulder after a diving accident.
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It should be noted that Neuralink is a brain technology startup founded by Elon Musk and the implant by Neuralink allows a patient to use their thoughts to control a computer.
Neuralink’s Future Plans
Earlier, Elon Musk said that the company would start by working with patients who have severe physical limitations like cervical spinal cord impairment or quadriplegia.
In the video that was live-streamed on Musk’s social platform X, the patient, Noland Arbaugh, was able to use his computer to play chess and the game Civilization VI. “I had given up on playing that game,” he said.
“It has already changed my life,” Arbaugh said. “The surgery was super easy.”
The 29-year-old patient said he sustained a spinal cord injury in a “freak diving accident” eight years ago. He further added that he was released from the hospital a day after the Neuralink procedure in January, which went smoothly. He added that there was “still work to be done” to refine the technology.
How Neuralink Device Works
The Neuralink device contains more electrodes than other devices and may have more potential applications in future and this technology works without needing a wired connection to external devices.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Musk stated that the device may have the capability to restore vision. “Blindsight is the next product after Telepathy,” he wrote, referring to the name of the implant for paralyzed patients.
“I’m happy for the individual that he’s been able to interface with a computer in a way he wasn’t able to before the implant,” said Kip Allan Ludwig, co-director of the Wisconsin Institute for Translational Neuroengineering.