Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink live streamed its first patient implanted with a chip playing online chess. A 29-year-old patient who was paralyzed below the shoulders after a diving accident, was playing chess on his laptop and moving the cursor using the Neuralink device.
He had received an implant from the company in January and could control a computer mouse using his thoughts. It is still in the very early days post-implantation, and there is a lot of learning to maximize the amount of information for control that can be achieved.
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