{"id":73695,"date":"2024-03-21T11:14:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/im-basically-telekinetic-neuralink-shows-quadriplegic-playing-chess-with-brain-implant\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T11:14:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:14:58","slug":"im-basically-telekinetic-neuralink-shows-quadriplegic-playing-chess-with-brain-implant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/im-basically-telekinetic-neuralink-shows-quadriplegic-playing-chess-with-brain-implant\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m basically telekinetic\u2019: Neuralink shows quadriplegic playing chess with brain implant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Neuralink on Wednesday streamed a video of its first human patient playing computer chess with his mind and talking about the brain implant making that possible.<\/p>\n<p>Noland Arbaugh, 29, who was left paralysed from the shoulders down by a diving accident eight years ago, told of playing chess and the videogame \u201cCivilization\u201d as well as taking Japanese and French lessons by controlling a computer screen cursor with his brain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s crazy, it really is. It\u2019s so cool,\u201d said Arbaugh, who joked of having telepathy thanks to Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1323347\">startup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s neurotechnology company installed a brain implant in its first human test subject in January, with the billionaire head of Tesla and X touting it as a success.<\/p>\n<p>Arbaugh said he was released from the hospital a day after the device was implanted in his brain, and that he had no cognitive impairment as a result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of work to be done, but it has already changed my life,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t want people to think this is the end of the journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told of starting out by thinking about moving the cursor and eventually the implant system mirrored his intent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason I got into it was because I wanted to be part of something that I feel is going to change the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Arbaugh said he plans to dress up this Halloween as Marvel Comics X-Men character Charles Xavier, who is wheelchair-bound but possesses mental superpowers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to be Professor X,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that\u2019s pretty fitting [\u2026] I\u2019m basically telekinetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Neuralink engineer in the video, which was posted on X and Reddit, promised more updates regarding the patient\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew they started doing this with human patients, but it\u2019s another level to actually see the person who has one in,\u201d one Reddit user commented. \u201cReally crazy, impressive and scary all at once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neuralink\u2019s technology works through a device about the size of five stacked coins that is placed inside the human brain through invasive surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The startup, cofounded by Musk in 2016, aims to build direct communication channels between the brain and computers.<\/p>\n<p>The ambition is to supercharge human capabilities, treat neurological disorders like ALS or Parkinson\u2019s, and maybe one day achieve a symbiotic relationship between humans and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is hardly alone in trying to make advances in the field, which is officially known as brain-machine or brain-computer interface research.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuralink on Wednesday streamed a video of its first human patient playing computer chess with his mind and talking about the brain implant making that possible. Noland Arbaugh, 29, who was left paralysed from the shoulders down by a diving accident eight years ago, told of playing chess and the videogame \u201cCivilization\u201d as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/03\/211230069e564b8.jpg?r=124626","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}