Elon Musk shares video of monkey playing games with his mind, impresses netizens

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Elon Musk’s latest tweet showing a monkey playing a game with his mind has sparked a plethora of responses on social media.

When he went to the microblogging website, the Tesla CEO retweeted a post from Neuralink, along with a caption that read, “Monkey plays Pong with his mind.” He explained, “A monkey literally plays a video game telepathically using a brain chip !!”

Originally shared by Neuralink, the 3.27-minute clip features Pager, a nine-year-old macaque who uses a joystick to play a game on the computer screen. A moment later, however, when the joystick is disconnected, the monkey can continue to play the game with his mind.

Watch the video here:

Musk’s startup is developing a fully implanted, wireless, counting brain machine (BMI) interface that allows people with paralysis to directly use their neural activity to control various devices with ease. The monkey in the video was implanted with a Neuralink weeks before the experiment was performed.

In the experiment, the monkey not only plays the game with his mind, but can also adapt to it when the difficulty is increased. The clip ends with the monkey being rewarded with a banana.

Since it was shared online, the post has created a buzz that left many quite impressed with the experiment. However, many were also reminded of the popular science fiction movie Planet of the monkeys

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