29-year-old Noland Arbaugh was injured in a car crash 8 years ago that left him paralyzed from the shoulder down. Now, he’s livestreaming on Elon Musk’s X platform and using the computer with his mind alone thank to Elon Musk’s Neuralink.
Arbaugh described the process of using the computer with his mind, saying, “Basically, it was like using the Force on the cursor and I could get it to move wherever I wanted. Just stare somewhere on the screen and it would move where I wanted it to, which was such a wild experience the first time it happened.”
Excerpt from redstate.com
In a story that would have been unthinkable not all that many years ago, the first human to have a Neuralink computer chip surgically implanted in his brain has demonstrated how he now uses his thoughts to move a computer cursor around a screen to play online chess and toggle a music stream on and off.
The stuff of science fiction? Not anymore.
Noland Arbaugh, a 29-year-old man who was paralyzed from the shoulders down due to a diving accident eight years ago, joined a live stream on X (formerly Twitter) with a Neuralink engineer to demonstrate to the public how the brain-computer technology works.
… The Neuralink chip contains 1,000 electrodes programmed to gather data about the brain’s neural activity and body movement intention and sends the data to a Neuralink computer for decoding to transform thoughts into actions.