In fact, BCIs have allowed monkeys to manipulate robotic arms remotely, performing far more sophisticated actions than the simple joystick movements Pager needed for Pong. It turns out that science has had the ability to implant electrodes in a monkey’s brain and teach it to play a Pong-like game, sans hands, since at least 2002. Many neuroscientists were decidedly less impressed with Pager’s mind control than a layperson might be-or, to judge from his tweets, Musk was.
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But Musk also has a reputation for overhyping his technologies and missing promised timelines (see Full Self-Driving) and production targets (see Tesla, Model 3). Musk has a reputation for accomplishing engineering feats that others believe are technically improbable and turning them into revenue-generating businesses. The guy who regularly blasts rockets into space carrying both satellites and astronauts, and then safely lands the booster stages back on Earth- vertically, and sometimes on floating autonomous barges-so they can be reused.
The guy who has done more than anyone else to make electric cars a reality. But this is Elon Musk we’re talking about. Musk has said that in the future we’ll all need such brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs-that the only way to keep up with rapidly advancing artificial intelligence will be to merge with the machines, cyborg-style. It would also, Musk says, allow information to be beamed from a computer back into the brain. Neuralink is dedicated to developing a device that, once implanted in the human brain, would allow a computer to translate a person’s thoughts into action-eventually allowing the individual to do anything we do today through typing, pressing buttons, or manipulating a mouse or joystick-by simply thinking about the desired result instead. Or rather, Pager belongs to Neuralink, a company Musk founded in 2016. It’s because that monkey-it’s named Pager, the video’s narrator tells us-is Musk’s monkey. That’s not just because monkey MindPong is the kind of sci-fi stuff that gets Musk jazzed. Among those who really like the clip is Elon Musk.
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