Elon Musk says he wired up a monkey’s brain to play video games


‘We have a monkey with a wireless implant in their skull with tiny wires who can play video games with his mind,’ Musk told several thousand listeners in a Clubhouse chatroom. — AFP Relaxnews

Elon Musk says one of his startups has a monkey with wires going into its brain that’s able to play video games.

“He’s a happy monkey,” said Musk, the chief executive officer of electric-vehicle maker Tesla Inc and backer of numerous other futuristic projects, including Neuralink Corp, a startup focused on developing a brain-computer interface.

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