Futuristic entrepreneur Elon Musk.

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The video has already been viewed over 300,000 times.

The American billionaire Elon Musk posted on his Twitter account on Friday the video of a monkey playing the video game Pong without any other controller than the power of his brain, thanks to a connected chip implanted in his skull by the start-up Neuralink.

"A monkey plays a video game telepathically thanks to a chip in his brain," tweeted the futuristic entrepreneur, boss of Neuralink, but also founder of Tesla and SpaceX.

“Soon our monkeys will be on Twitch and Discord haha,” he added.

A monkey is literally playing a video game telepathically using a brain chip !!

- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 9, 2021

In the video, the Pager macaque can be seen controlling the movements of a racquet with its eyes to prevent the ball from falling into the void, as one might with a joystick, touchscreen, or the arrows on a keyboard.

"Help people paralyzed or suffering from neurological diseases"

The aim of the operation is to reveal the potential of Neuralink to the general public.

“The first Neuralink products will allow a paralyzed person to use their smartphone with thought faster than a person with their fingers,” said Elon Musk.

He hopes that Neuralink's chips will be used primarily to help people who are paralyzed or suffering from neurological diseases.

But the long-term goal is to make implants so safe, reliable and simple that they would qualify for elective (comfort) surgery.

Last August, the start-up presented pigs in which it had implanted the prototype of a wireless chip, 23 mm in diameter and 8 mm thick (like a small coin).

Other brain-machine interfaces are under development.

Facebook is funding a project to translate brain activity into words, via algorithms, in order to allow people silenced by neurodegenerative diseases to speak again.

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