Athletistic / Chess. The first patient with a Neuralink chip in his brain played chess with his mind. Neuralink is a startup by Elon Musk.

“I love playing chess, and it’s one of those things you’ve allowed me to do. I haven’t been able to do much in recent years, and certainly not like this.

The operation to implant the chip in the brain was very simple. The next day I was released from the hospital.

The chip is not perfect, we still encountered some problems. I don’t want people to think that this is the end of the road, because we still have a lot of work to do. Having this implant installed changed my life,” Arbaugh said in a video posted to Neurolink’s social media channels.

Note that the patient, thanks to the Neuralink chip, was able to play the Civilization VI video game for eight hours straight.

Nolan Arbo had a brain chip implanted at the end of January 2024. Already on February 20, Neurolink reported that a man had learned to move the cursor of a computer mouse across the screen using the power of thought. Note that Arbaugh was paralyzed from the shoulders down following a car accident about eight years ago. The man is now 29 years old.



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