Elon Musk claims that the first Neuralink brain chip has already been implanted in a human being. The function of the implant will be to "read" brain activity in order to transmit orders that help restore some severely damaged brain functions after a heart attack or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
The coin-sized implant is surgically placed in the brain. Until now it had been tested on monkeys, who learned to play the video game Pong without a joystick or keyboard. The news comes nine months after the Food and Drug Administration gave its approval for the company to begin conducting studies in humans.