The first patient with the Neuralink neurochip played chess with the power of thought – Kommersant

Neuralink published on its page on the social network X video of the first patient with a neurochip implanted in the brain playing chess on a laptop, moving pieces with the power of thought. A month ago, Neuralink founder Elon Musk told on his page on the same social network that this patient began to control the movement of the computer mouse cursor “simply by the power of thought.”

In the published video, the patient, 29-year-old Nolan Arbaugh, talks about himself. According to him, eight years ago he was injured while diving and was almost completely paralyzed: he cannot feel his body below shoulder level. In the video, a man shows how he plays chess online. According to him, he also already plays the strategy game Civilization VI and once allegedly played for eight hours straight.

In addition, Nolan Arbaugh says that the operation to implant the Telepathy neurochip was “super simple,” although it required opening the skull. On the second day after the operation he was discharged. The patient notes that not everything during the trial was smooth, “there is still a lot of work to be done, but my life has already changed.” “(To me.- “Kommersant”) damn lucky to be a part of all this. It feels like you are learning something new every day,” he says.

Read about how successful the experiment on introducing the Neuralink chip into the patient’s brain is in the Kommersant FM article. “The thought moved the cursor”.

Alena Miklashevskaya