Neuralink has live streamed a video showing its first human patient using its brain implant to play chess just by thinking about it.
Three years after Neuralink showed footage of a monkey playing Pong using signals delivered via a brain implant, the Elon Musk-backed company has shared another video, this time of a human using the same technology to play chess on a computer.
Neuralink live streamed the remarkable demonstration (below) on social media on Wednesday.
It features 29-year-old quadriplegic Noland Arbaugh, who recently became the first human patient to have Neuralink’s device implanted in his brain. He was released from hospital the day after receiving the implant, and said the surgical procedure to insert electrodes into his brain tissue was “super easy.
