Neuralink, a Elon Musk’s company has stated that it has successfully implanted a chip into the monkey’s brain so that the monkey can also play games now. As the description says: “Extended MindPong with neural activity overlay.” Neuralink has finally officially announced this video of monkeys playing games with their “mind”. According to Elon Musk, the chip enables paralyzed patients to use smartphones faster than normal people using thumb buttons, and allows paraplegics to walk again in their life. The chip will be implanted in the skull of the paraplegics and using wireless charging, so even if the chip is implanted, there will be no abnormal appearance.
Yes, this all sounds like a total lie but it’s actually what is going on right now. Here’s the footage of the monkey playing game with it’s mind by Neuralink official youtube channel.
Don’t worry, this is totally normal because I also feel that I am no any different from a monkey after watching these videos. Although Elon Musk has relatively high recourses and funds, it still feels a bit difficult to play games with only our brain, as a human is what I meant. After all, there was also a monkey who played a first-person games 9 years ago. But it’s a little hard to tell if it’s real footage or not. Since there is many people out there will extremely good editing skill and such. Take a look at it, and tell me if you believe that it’s true or not!
（No wonder I am getting rekt in video games)
But back to our main topic here, our technology does advance in a high speed right now and I believe that we don’t need any longer to see an e-sports monkey team or a tournament that is set for monkeys. Even 5 human vs 5 monkey could be possible in the future as well, just like the AI vs Human tournament by Blizzard, where AlphaStar beats quite a lot of pros in Starcraft 2.
