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Neuralink livestream shows paralyzed person playing chess on laptop

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Elon Musk’s brain science startup, Neuralink, offered a peek Wednesday into how a quadriplegic person is using its brain implant to control a computer. Neuralink released a nine-minute video in which its first human patient, who is paralyzed below his shoulders, appears to move a cursor across a laptop screen with nothing but his thoughts. The video shows him playing chess and turning off the laptop’s music.

The video follows decades of research by physicians and neuroscientists in the field known as brain-computer interfaces, or BCI. Doctors implanted the first interface device in 2004. It was known as the Utah array because of where it was invented, and a version of it is now used by Blackrock Neurotech. Neuralink has received both wide publicity and heavy scrutiny in part because of Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, who is among the world’s wealthiest people.

 

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