MUSK’S NEURALINK HOSTS A LIVESTREAM OF A QUADRIPLEGIC PLAYING ONLINE CHESS

Fri 22 March 2024:

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup, has broadcast a patient who appears to be playing online chess with just his mind.

Neuralink announced Noland Arbaugh, 29, as the first patient in a video on the social networking platform X on Wednesday. Arbaugh is the 29-year-old patient who was implanted with the company’s brain-computer interface technology.

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Arbaugh, who spoke about how a diving accident left him paralyzed from the shoulders down, said that after practicing visualizing moving the cursor across the screen, using Neuralink had become “intuitive.”

“Basically, it was like using ‘the Force’ on the cursor, and I could get it to move wherever I wanted. Just stare somewhere on the screen and it would move where I wanted it to, which was such a wild experience the first time it happened,” Arbaugh said, referring to the superpowers possessed by the Jedi in the Star Wars films.

“It’s crazy, it really is.”

Arbaugh said the surgery for the device had been “super easy”, and he had been released from hospital a day later.

“I can’t even describe how cool it is to be able to do this,” he said in the video.

Arbaugh also acknowledged the technology was “not perfect” and they had “run into some issues”.

“I don’t want people to think that this is the end of the journey. There’s still a lot of work to be done, but it has already changed my life,” he said.

Musk, who co-founded Neuralink in 2016, said on X that his company had demonstrated “telepathy” by allowing a person to control a computer “just by thinking”.

Independent Press could not independently confirm the demonstration.

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