Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said one of his startups has a monkey with wires going into its brain that’s able to play video games.
Neuralink put a computer chip into the monkey’s skull and used “tiny wires” to connect it to its brain, Musk said.
"It’s not an unhappy monkey," he said during a talk on Clubhouse. "You can’t even see where the neural implant was put in, except that he’s got a slight like dark mohawk."
The billionaire said Neuralink is trying to figure out if it can use its chips to get monkeys to play “mind Pong” with each other. "That would be pretty cool," said Musk.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Neuralink’s team of around 100 people is trying to develop an implementable computer-brain interface. Musk describes it as a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires that go into your brain.
He said the aim of Neuralink is to increase the rate at which information can flow from the human brain to a machine, Bloomberg reported.
