Elon Musk’s Neuralink project has trained a 9-year-old macaque to play Pong with its mind through analysis of its brain patterns.
It might sound like something straight out of Planet of the Apes, but Elon Musk’s Neuralink project has successfully allowed a monkey to play video games by using its mind to power the controls. Back in February, Musk claimed that the Neuralink project had succeeded in allowing a monkey to play games using its brain power. It sounded a bit crazy, but now, video footage of the experiment has been posted to Neuralink’s YouTube channel, and features a 9-year-old macaque named Pager playing games via Neuralink’s tech that has been implanted on either side of his brain. First, Pager operates a game via joystick where his objective is to move a cursor over the highlighted square on a grid. He’s rewarded with a sip of banana smoothie each time he moves the cursor correctly.
