Neuralink d'Elon Musk a fait une percée dans la technologie de contrôle mental, qui est soit brillante, soit terrifiante, selon votre point de vue. La société de neurotechnologie a publié sur son blog une séquence vidéo d'un singe jouant au jeu vidéo "Pong", utilisant uniquement son esprit pour contrôler le jeu via un implant Neuralink dans son cerveau.
Pour commencer, le singe, nommé Pager, a reçu un joystick et a joué à un jeu où il déplaçait des jetons sur l'écran à l'aide du joystick (assez impressionnant en soi si vous nous demandez). Neuralink a réussi à faire correspondre les signaux cérébraux du singe à ses mouvements et a commencé à anticiper les mouvements que Pager ferait ensuite, en retirant finalement complètement le joystick.
Ce n'est pas la première fois que Neuralink teste cette technologie. L'année dernière, Musk a démontré son utilisation avec l'aide d'un porc volontaire, mais cette nouvelle démonstration va encore plus loin et nous donne un aperçu de ce que l'entreprise espère pouvoir réaliser en termes d'implants humains.
Comme indiqué sur son blog, l'objectif ultime de Neuralink est de permettre aux « personnes atteintes de paralysie d'utiliser directement leur activité neuronale pour faire fonctionner des ordinateurs et des appareils mobiles avec rapidité et facilité ». En cas de succès, cela pourrait potentiellement changer la donne pour la technologie médicale.
Est-ce une percée pour la science, ou une preuve supplémentaire que Musk construit une armée de singes de haute technologie ? Seul le temps nous le dira.
Elon Musk's Neuralink has had a breakthrough in mind-control technology, which is either brilliant or terrifying, depending on your point of view. The neurotechnology company has released video footage on their blog of a monkey playing the videogame 'Pong', using only its mind to control the game via a Neuralink implant in its brain.
To start, the monkey, named Pager, was given a joystick and played a game where it moved tokens around the screen using the joystick (pretty impressive on its own if you ask us). Neuralink was able to match the monkey's brain signals to its movement and began anticipating which moves Pager would make next, eventually removing the joystick altogether.
This isn’t the first time Neuralink has trialed this technology. Last year, Musk demonstrated its use with the help of a pig volunteer, but this new demonstration goes one step further and gives us a glimpse of what the company hopes to be able to achieve in terms of human implants.
As outlined on its blog, Neuralink's ultimate aim is to allow ‘people with paralysis to directly use their neural activity to operate computers and mobile devices with speed and ease.’ If successful, this could potentially be a game-changer for medical technology.
Is this a breakthrough for science, or further proof that Musk is building a hi-tech monkey army? Only time will tell.
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