{"id":39401,"date":"2021-04-11T18:25:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T12:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officechai.com\/?p=39401"},"modified":"2021-04-11T18:30:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T13:00:22","slug":"elon-musks-startup-neuralink-can-let-a-monkey-play-pong-with-just-his-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officechai.com\/startups\/elon-musks-startup-neuralink-can-let-a-monkey-play-pong-with-just-his-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s Startup Neuralink Can Now Let A Monkey Play Pong With Just His Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When Elon Musk had first announced a startup <\/a>which would help interface human brains with technology, and ultimately allow humanity to seamlessly fuse us with artificial intelligence, not many had taken him seriously. But it now turns out that Musk wasn’t monkeying around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an extraordinary tech demonstration, Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink has shown that it can now let a monkey play the arcade game Pong with just its mind. Neuralink first implanted its electrodes into the brain of the money, Pager, through a surgical procedure. The company then trained Pager to play a simple computer game, in which he had to move a dot towards a moving square using a joystick. By giving him a banana, the team was able to train Pager to use the joystick and move the dot towards the square on the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That’s when things got interesting — using their implant, Neuralink recorded Pager’s brain impulses as he moved the dot, and recorded which neurons fired when he moved the joystick up, down, and so on. Once Neuralink knew which neurons fired based on the direction Pager was moving the joystick, they unplugged the joystick, and allowed Pager to keep playing the game. Even though the joystick was unplugged, Pager was ‘thinking’ about moving the dot towards the square, and Neuralink was able to detect which of his neurons were firing as he played the game. They programmed the game to react to those brain impulses instead, and incredibly, the even though the joystick was removed, Pager was ‘moving’ the dot towards the square with just his mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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