Neuralink di Elon Musk ha fatto un passo avanti nella tecnologia del controllo mentale, che è brillante o terrificante, a seconda del punto di vista. La società di neurotecnologia ha pubblicato sul proprio blog un video di una scimmia che gioca al videogioco "Pong", usando solo la sua mente per controllare il gioco tramite un impianto Neuralink nel suo cervello.
Per iniziare, alla scimmia, di nome Pager, è stato dato un joystick e ha giocato a un gioco in cui spostava i token sullo schermo usando il joystick (abbastanza impressionante da solo se ci chiedi). Neuralink è stato in grado di abbinare i segnali del cervello della scimmia al suo movimento e ha iniziato ad anticipare quali mosse avrebbe fatto Pager, alla fine rimuovendo del tutto il joystick.
Questa non è la prima volta che Neuralink prova questa tecnologia. L'anno scorso, Musk ha dimostrato il suo utilizzo con l'aiuto di un maiale volontario, ma questa nuova dimostrazione va oltre e ci dà un'idea di ciò che l'azienda spera di poter ottenere in termini di impianti umani.
Come delineato sul suo blog, l'obiettivo finale di Neuralink è consentire alle "persone con paralisi di utilizzare direttamente la loro attività neurale per utilizzare computer e dispositivi mobili con velocità e facilità". In caso di successo, questo potrebbe essere un punto di svolta per la tecnologia medica.
È una svolta per la scienza o un'ulteriore prova che Musk sta costruendo un esercito di scimmie hi-tech? Solo il tempo lo dirà.
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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