Elon Musk became the richest man in the world a few years ago. It also means that he can handle more things than most. For example, he can buy a popular social platform for $44 billion to block his ex-girlfriend’s account. If more seriously speaking (although that last sentence is pure truth), he controls a number of companies that make him omnipotent. These companies are electric car company Tesla, space exploration technology company SpaceX, and Twitter. Additionally, Musk owns Neuralink, a brain-computer interface company.
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Not long agoElon Musk demonstrated “telepathic typing” in a monkey using a brain implant. The monkey who can write is called Sake. Scientists put a chip in a monkey’s brain. The chip can read the monkey’s brain activity.
A Neuralink Trained Monkey Prints a Telepath, Using Only Its Brain ???? @employee pic.twitter.com/PUkFA9qpUi
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No need to expect miracles at this point. We mean that the chip will not make the monkey talk like a human. But the monkey can still move the cursor on the display screen when prompts are seen. Most importantly, the chips charge wirelessly.
“Here you can see Saki, this is another of our monkeys, typing on the keyboard. This is telepathic writing. Although it’s obvious, he doesn’t actually use a keyboard. He mentally moves the cursor to the highlighted key. Now technically, he can’t actually spell. So I don’t want to sell this thing, because this is the next release,” Musk said.
In fact, Neyralink has shown a similar monkey in 2021. At that time, the monkey was playing table tennis on the computer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch؟v=rsCul1sp4hQ
Now, we see that the chip has made real progress. Unfortunately, they can still only record the activity of the brain’s nerves. In this sense, the company’s next breakthrough is to send signals to the brain to help blind people see and quadriplegics walk.