Elon Musk announced that the first human patient who has been implanted with a brain chip of Neuralink he’s able to control a computer mouse through thought. If confirmed, this news could represent an important evolution in the field of brain-machine connection.
For Musk, the first Neuralink patient uses the mouse with thought
The news comes directly from an event organized on X (formerly Twitter), where Elon Musk himself, CEO of the startup Neuralink, announced this new advancement. As Open reports, Musk spoke about the first human patient with an implanted Chi, stating that “progress is good and the patient appears to have fully recovered, with neural effects that we are aware of. The patient is able to move the mouse on the screen simply by thinking“.
Neuralink recently completed the implantation of its first chip in a human patient. After getting approval to recruit volunteers last September, the company surgically placed the chip in a region of the brain that controls movement. And now, according to Musk, the patient can now move the mouse on the screen with the power of thought alone.
Controlling a mouse with your mind is just the beginning, and Neuralink’s medium-to-long term vision is much more ambitious. The start-up aims to use these chips to treat complex conditions and deliver a direct interface between the human brain and computers.
If at the moment Neuralink is focusing on providing solutions for communicating to those with serious motor problems and paralysis, Musk has made no secret that in the future his idea is that we will all use PCs with our thoughts. To understand whether this future is approaching, we will need more successful experts. Maybe with some more data than Musk’s brief statement.
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