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Watch a monkey equipped with Elon Musk’s Neuralink device play Pong with its brain
TechCrunch ^ | April 8, 2021 | Darrell Etherington

Posted on 04/08/2021 9:21:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Neuralink demonstrates how it used its sensor hardware and brain implant to record a baseline of activity from this macaque (named ‘Pager’) as it played a game on-screen where it had to move a token to different squares using a joystick with its hand. Using that baseline data, Neuralink was able to use machine learning to anticipate where Pager was going to be moving the physical controller, and was eventually able to predict it accurately before the move was actually made. Researchers then removed the paddle entirely, and eventually did the same thing with Pong, ultimately ending up at a place where Pager no longer was even moving its hand on the air on the nonexistent paddle, and was instead controlling the in-game action entirely with its mind via the Link hardware and embedded neural threads.

Musk separately tweeted that in fact, he expects the initial version of Neuralink’s product to be able to allow someone with paralysis that prevents standard modes of phone interaction to use one faster than people using their thumbs for input. He also added that future iterations of the product would be able to enable communication between Neuralinks in different parts of a patient’s body, transmitting between an in-brain node and neural pathways in legs, for instance, making it possible for “paraplegics to walk again.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; macaca; neuralink; pong; qanon
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1 posted on 04/08/2021 9:21:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

He is now more qualified to be POTUS than either bidet or the whore.


2 posted on 04/08/2021 9:28:45 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (No matter what, resist and stop the agenda of blow bidet and hairass the whore)
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3 posted on 04/08/2021 9:29:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

BTTT!!!!


4 posted on 04/08/2021 9:32:30 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: KC_Lion

I think that I saw this movie.


5 posted on 04/08/2021 9:35:11 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: BenLurkin

Tech is advancing at an unbelievable rate. What’s it going to be like 500 years from now granted that Democrats don’t destroy mankind by then?


6 posted on 04/08/2021 9:38:15 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I predict that things are going to become so complex, so internetworked, that the point will come that there will be a cascading failure of all technology.

Humanity will be thrown in to the stone age overnight.


7 posted on 04/08/2021 9:44:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Musk is brilliant, and a visionary. Whatever he is backing, invest in.


8 posted on 04/08/2021 10:00:24 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: BenLurkin

**Humanity will be thrown in to the stone age overnight**

The capability to do that is already here.

And I’m not forgetting massive earthquakes.


9 posted on 04/08/2021 10:04:39 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: BenLurkin
What could go wrong?
10 posted on 04/08/2021 10:08:05 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
What's it going to be like 500 years from now granted that Democrats don't destroy mankind by then?

If Civilization finds a way to make living in space profitable then it will be the Wild West all over again and freedom will have another chance to blossom. With automation we are close to that point. It all depends if the RATs don't manage to send us back to the dark ages first.

I'd like to see people living off world. It all but guarantees the continuation of Civilization because space is so hostile and unforgiving. You really have to know what you are doing to live out there.

11 posted on 04/08/2021 10:12:46 PM PDT by Nateman (Keep Liberty Alive! Article V)
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To: BenLurkin

Eventually, you’ll be able to have Uncle Bob’s entire brain personality and memory downloaded. It will have his entire life memory on it. After Bob is dead, this massive amount of memory can be stored in a box, put up on the mantel and Uncle Bob lives on. He just won’t be able to walk around, but he’ll be able to talk about old times and watch TV, if you point the box right at the TV.


12 posted on 04/08/2021 10:12:52 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: freedumb2003

LOLOLOLOLOLOL.........


13 posted on 04/08/2021 10:19:35 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: BenLurkin

Welcome to the Matrix.


14 posted on 04/08/2021 10:28:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: TheDon

Forget private thoughts.

That alone will make me say no thanky.

Plus implant infection and damage that will occur from impacts to both the body area and implant debris, nope.


15 posted on 04/08/2021 10:43:13 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

we npw know how to take these people out permanently

power surge. simple taser can do it.


16 posted on 04/08/2021 10:43:59 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s nothing, you should have seen that monkey posting Q drops.


17 posted on 04/08/2021 10:47:57 PM PDT by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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To: BenLurkin

OK, that gets a “Terminal Monkey” bump from me.


18 posted on 04/08/2021 11:08:52 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: BenLurkin

Bidet* will be envious........


19 posted on 04/08/2021 11:10:18 PM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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To: BenLurkin

If it makes them play Pong with their brain, that can’t be good for them.


20 posted on 04/08/2021 11:14:48 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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