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“#Hands-free: Monkey plays video game<\/a><\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n A monkey managed to play a video game via a brain implant
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Elon Musk’s startup devoted to meshing brains with computers was closer to its dream on Friday, having gotten a monkey to play video game Pong using only its mind.\n <\/p>\n

Musk has long contended that merging minds with machines is vital if people are going to avoid being outpaced by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

A video posted on YouTube<\/a> by the entrepreneur’s Neuralink startup showed a macaque monkey named “Pager” playing Pong by essentially using thought to move paddles that bounce digital balls back and forth on screen.<\/p>\n

“To control his paddle, Pager simply thinks about moving his hand up or down,” said a voice narrating the video. “As you can see, Pager is amazingly good at MindPong.”<\/p>\n

Neuralink devices were implanted on two sides of Pager’s brain to sense neuron activity, then the monkey played the game a few minutes using a joystick to let software figure out the signals associated with hand movements.<\/p>\n

Pager’s reward was banana smoothly served through a straw when he successfully batted the digital ball from one paddle to the other, according to the demonstration.<\/p>\n

After a few minutes, the “decoder” program figured out what neuron signals to look for and the joystick was no longer needed for Pager to play the game.<\/p>\n

“A monkey is literally playing a video game telepathically using a brain chip!!” Musk tweeted triumphantly.<\/p>\n


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