{"id":121375,"date":"2021-04-09T11:23:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T18:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/elon-musks-brain-chip-company-neuralink-released-a-video-of-a-monkey-playing-video-games-with-its-mind"},"modified":"2021-04-09T11:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T18:23:02","slug":"elon-musks-brain-chip-company-neuralink-released-a-video-of-a-monkey-playing-video-games-with-its-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/elon-musks-brain-chip-company-neuralink-released-a-video-of-a-monkey-playing-video-games-with-its-mind","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s brain-chip company, Neuralink, released a video of a monkey playing video games with its mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rsCul1sp4hQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk finally got to show off his monkey.<\/p>\n<p>Neuralink, a company founded by Musk that is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/we-spoke-to-2-neuroscientists-about-how-exciting-elon-musks-neuralink-really-is-2019-9\">developing artificial-intelligence-powered microchips to go in people\u2019s brains<\/a>, released a video Thursday appearing to show a macaque using the tech to play video games, including \u201cPong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-neuralink-monkey-plays-video-games-using-his-mind-2021-2\">boasted about Neuralink\u2019s tests on primates before<\/a>, but this is the first time the company has put one on display. During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-neuralink-brain-microchip-tested-on-monkeys-2019-7\">presentation in 2019<\/a>, Musk said the company had enabled a monkey to \u201ccontrol a computer with its brain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk finally got to show off his monkey. Neuralink, a company founded by Musk that is developing artificial-intelligence-powered microchips to go in people\u2019s brains, released a video Thursday appearing to show a macaque using the tech to play video games, including \u201cPong.\u201d Musk has boasted about Neuralink\u2019s tests on primates before, but this is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}