An individual suffering from paralysis can now play chess thanks to a neuralink chip established in his brain, an advance greeted by a viral video shared on the X platform with more than 90 million views.
A paralyzed individual succeeds in engaging in failures thanks to a chip made by Neuralink and located in his brain. A video, shared Wednesday evening on the X social media platform, exposing this remarkable feat, aroused attention with more than 90 million views.
In January of this year, Noland Arbaugh, 29, became the first recipient of a Neuralink chip, an Elon Musk innovation aimed at allowing paralyzed people to communicate with computers.
In a live broadcast on Wednesday on the Musk X platform, Arbaugh reported his complete paralysis below the shoulders, a consequence of a diving accident eight years ago, where he suffered a dislocation of the cervical vertebrae C4 and C5.
Thanks to the wireless connection between his laptop and the Neuralink chip, Arbaugh moves the cursor to “telepathically” on his computer screen, displaying a chess.com chessboard. He also controls music with this chip.
Arbaugh compares the use of the Neuralink implant at Star Wars’s “strength”, stressing its ability to place the cursor where he wishes by simply looking at the screen. He also reveals that he had played eight hours in a row in Civilization VI thanks to this technology.
https://t.co/omieggjytg— neuralink (@neuralink) March 20, 2024
Elon Musk announced on his X platform on January 29, that the first human successfully received the Neuralink implant, named Telepathy, in reference to its use.
Neuralink received authorization from the American FDA in September from the previous year to conduct the first test of its implant on humans, although the company first tested its devices on animals.
Although the brain-computer interface is not a new technology, the wireless connection between the Neuralink flea and laptop is considered a significant advance.
Arbaugh admits that the system is not perfect but underlines that it has already changed its life, although there is still work to do.
