Elon Musk shows off monkey ‘Playing a Video Game"

Neuralink, owned by "technocrat" Elon Musk, demonstrated a scenario in which a monkey can control video games through his brain.

IC: Neuralink

Have you ever said you'd rather watch monkeys play games than some influencers on YouTube and Twitch? If you are — be careful what you say — we are not far from it. The Neuralink company yesterday publicly demonstrated the latest result in research into communication between computers and primate brains. In translation, they were able to get the monkey to control the video game using only their brains.

The champion of this experiment was Pager, a nine-year-old macaque who played a game of Pongo through Neuralink. Since he controlled the clubs in the game with his brain waves, without any issuing of physical commands, his playing was going well, at least from what we see in the footage that was released.

The experiment otherwise worked on the principle that the monkey received an award every time he successfully completed the task, and the prize was of course a banana sent to him in the form of smooti – through a tube. In the end, Pager got a banana for his efforts, which he was pleased to peel himself.

In theory, these are the beginnings of technology that could one day have a variety of applications. Elon Musk, who owns the aforementioned neuralink company, argues that in this way people with paralysis could use smartphones faster than others use them in a classic way – using their hands/toes.

It is worth noting that this Neuralink experiment is not the first successful attempt to establish communication between the primate brain and the computer in the context of playing a video game. Similar experiments have been conducted for almost twenty years, but what makes this one specific is that communication between the brain and the computer takes place wirelessly – i.e. communication between the brain and the computer. signals from the brain are sent to the computer without wires sticking out of the skin, i.e. without a higher risk of potential infection of the subjects.