{"id":189024,"date":"2024-05-09T17:27:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T22:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/neuralinks-first-brain-implant-patient-now-beats-friends-in-video-games"},"modified":"2024-05-09T17:27:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T22:27:25","slug":"neuralinks-first-brain-implant-patient-now-beats-friends-in-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/neuralinks-first-brain-implant-patient-now-beats-friends-in-video-games","title":{"rendered":"Neuralink\u2019s First Brain Implant Patient Now Beats Friends in Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuralinks-first-brain-implant-patient-now-beats-friends-in-video-games2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neuralink\u2019s first human patient has become so adept at using the company\u2019s brain implant that he can now beat other players at video games.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Elon Musk\u2019s company provided a progress update on Noland Arbaugh, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/elon-musks-brain-implant-is-now-inside-a-human-patient\" target=\"_self\">received<\/a> a brain implant in January that lets him remotely control the cursor on a laptop.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Neuralink revealed that Arbaugh was using the implant to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/first-human-to-receive-neuralink-implant-says-it-lets-him-play-civilization\" target=\"_self\">play games<\/a> including Chess, Civilization VI, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/neuralink-patient-also-uses-brain-chip-to-play-mario-kart\" target=\"_self\">Mario Kart<\/a>. In Wednesday\u2019s update, the company reported that Arbaugh\u2019s use of the implant has only improved over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuralink\u2019s first human patient has become so adept at using the company\u2019s brain implant that he can now beat other players at video games. On Wednesday, Elon Musk\u2019s company provided a progress update on Noland Arbaugh, who received a brain implant in January that lets him remotely control the cursor on a laptop. In March, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189024","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}