Security News > 2021 > April > Watch: Monkey uses Elon Musk's Neuralink to play Pong with its mind
A new video released by Elon Musk's Neuralink shows a monkey playing Pong using its mind and embedded brain-human interface.
These signals can then be used to train Neuralink to perform actions with machinery or other implanted devices so that the person's mind controls them.
Neuralink demonstrates how they have trained a macaque monkey to use its brain-machine interface to play the Pong video game using its mind in a new video released today.
To train the monkey, scientists embedded a BMI on both sides of the monkey's brain and used its over 2,000 electrodes and a smoothy reward to teach the money how to play Pong using a joystick.
Using the BMI, the scientists recorded the brain activity as the monkey controlled the Pong paddle.
Musk is excited about this development, sharing a couple of tweets this morning about the applications of Neuralink.