Elon Musk, president of Tesla, the electric vehicle maker, said the company he founded, Neuralink, connected a monkey's brain and motivated him to play video games.
Musk explained that Neuralink placed a computer chip in the skull of the monkey, and used small wires to connect it to his brain.
"You can't even know where the implant is placed," he said during an interview at Clubhouse, a new social media app that allows people to have informal voice conversations while others listen.
Neuralink is trying to see if it can use its chips to get the monkeys to play with each other.
Neuralink is headquartered in San Francisco, and its team of about 100 is trying to develop a computer interface as a mediator between the brain and executable commands.
The company aims to increase the rate of information flow from the human brain to the device, and is currently working on developing brain implants that help people suffering from paralysis to be able to control devices that control their thoughts.
Musk added that technology could also enable people to communicate through their minds or save the state of their brains.
So when they die, it is loaded onto another body, and described the device as a "Fitbit" device in your skull with small wires reaching your brain.
Musk invited anyone working on wearable devices, phones or advanced robots to apply for a job at Neuralink.
So far, the company's tests have been limited to pigs and monkeys.
But that did not prevent Musk from speculating that it could be experimented with in humans, and he said if two people have Neuralink technology, telepathy can be done to transfer concepts, where you have a complex chain of concepts, and you can transfer them directly to the other person using telepathy.
"This greatly improves the quality and speed of communication, and there are other things that can be done, and maybe you can save the state of the brain, and therefore if you die, your brain can be transferred to another human body or a robot body," he added.
The billionaire explained that Neuralink has successfully tested the implant, removal and replantation, and said, "The company will likely soon release new videos showing its progress."