Elon Musk Says He Wired Up A Monkey’s Brain To Play Video Games

Elon Musk says one in every of his startups has a monkey with wires going into its mind that is capable of play video video games.

“He’s a happy monkey,” stated Musk, the chief govt officer of electric-vehicle maker Tesla Inc. and backer of quite a few different futuristic initiatives, together with Neuralink Corp., a startup targeted on creating a brain-computer interface.

He stated movies can be launched quickly, maybe in round one month, displaying the wired monkeys.

Musk was talking on Clubhouse, a non-public social app the place customers host off-the-cuff, casual conversations. He was requested concerning the newest developments at Neuralink, which was unveiled in 2017. The entrepreneur, who additionally based rocket firm Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and is now the world’s richest individual, is understood for his vast pursuits, from synthetic intelligence to underground highways.

“We have a monkey with a wireless implant in their skull with tiny wires who can play video games with his mind,” Musk informed a number of thousand listeners in a Clubhouse chatroom. “You can’t see where the implant is and he’s a happy monkey. We have the nicest monkey facilities in the world. We want them to play mind-Pong with each other.”

Musk defined that the “idea with neural link is addressing brain and spinal injuries” and making up individuals’s misplaced capability with an implanted chip.

“There are primitive versions of this device with wires sticking out of your head, but it’s like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires that go into your brain,” he stated.

Although Clubhouse looks like nothing greater than an app to hop onto numerous convention calls, it has change into a well-liked platform for an estimated 5 million customers, a leap from 3 million 10 days earlier.

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