Zitat Elon Musk@elonmusk Livestream of @Neuralink demonstrating “Telepathy” – controlling a computer and playing video games just by thinking 10:39 PM · Mar 20, 2024
Zitat Elon Musk’s Neuralink Shows First Patient Using Its Brain Implant Man paralyzed in diving accident moves computer cursor with his thoughts Updated March 20, 2024 9:11 pm ET
Elon Musk’s Neuralink introduced the first patient to receive its brain-computer implant, a 29-year-old diving-accident victim who showed during a livestream that he can now move a computer cursor using the device.
In a nine-minute presentation streamed on Musk’s X platform Wednesday, Neuralink showed Noland Arbaugh directing the cursor around a screen to play a game of chess. Arbaugh said it feels like “using the force on a cursor,” referring to a concept from movies.
Zitat The patient, Noland Arbaugh, said during the livestream on X, Musk's social-media company, that the chip was "not perfect" but it had already added many improvements to his life, such as giving him the ability to play video games for hours without having to rely on help from his family.
"It's not perfect," Arbaugh said. "I would say we have run into some issues. I don't want people to think that this is the end of the journey. There's a lot of work to be done, but it has already changed my life."
Bliss Chapman, an engineer at Neuralink, joined Arbaugh for the livestream. The company, launched in 2016, has been working on a chip implant that could allow people to control computers with their brains.
During the livestream, Arbaugh sat in a specialized chair in front of a laptop.
He appeared to be playing a game of chess while his hands remained on the armrests of his chair.
"I love playing chess and so this is one of the things that y'all have enabled me to do — something that I wasn't able to really do much the last few years, especially not like this," he said. "I had to use a mouse stick and stuff, but now it's all being done with my brain."
Arbaugh said he had dislocated parts of his spinal cord in a "freak diving accident" about eight years ago that left him paralyzed from below the shoulders.
His condition limited his ability to play his favorite video game, "Civilization VI," because he could only play a few hours at a time before he would need help from his family to readjust his seated position.
"I had basically given up on playing that game," he said, adding that it's a "big game" that requires a lot of time sitting still. "I have to worry about a lot of things — getting pressure sores and things like that. So I just wasn't really able to play it as much as I wanted to."
With the chip, Arbaugh said he has been able to play the video game for several hours while lying in his bed.
Arbaugh noted that the "biggest restriction" so far was having to charge the implant after playing video games for a long time.
He said that controlling Neuralink soon became "intuitive," and that to move the computer cursor, for example, he only needed to imagine the cursor moving.
In a comparison to the "Star Wars" movies, he said it's "like using the Force on a cursor."
Im Livestream erklärt er, daß er sich bei seinem Badeunfall die Wirbelsäule zwischen dem 4. und 5. Wirbel verletzt hat und seither von den Schultern abwärts gelähmt ist.
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