Monkey plays Pong video game with his mind using Neuralink brain implant

Subscribe to The Telegraph on YouTube ► Billionaire Elon Musk has unveiled a video showing a cyborg monkey playing the 1970s video game Pong entirely with its mind using brain implants. The footage shows a nine-year-old macaque called Pager with a chip inserted on each side of his brain, created by Musk’s AI company Neuralink. Pager was first taught to play Pong with a a joystick allowing Neuralink to record which neurons in his brain were being fired. This data helped the company predict what the monkey was going to do based on only his brain signals. After learning the patterns, the joystick was disconnected from the computer and the monkey’s brainwaves were connected to the game, allowing Pager to carry on playing Pong using his mind. After just six weeks, Pager had learnt to play the game in return for a banana smoothie reward. The brain implant is being developed by Mr Musk’s Neuralink company, which has $158m (£118m) in funding and employs about 100 people. Read more here: #Monkey #ElonMush #Neuralink Get the latest headlines: and are websites of The Telegraph, the UK’s best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.