‘Like using the force’: Neuralink patient demonstrates how he plays chess using brain-chip

My name is Nolan arbaugh I’m 29 years old um about eight years ago I was in kind of a freak diving accident and uh dislocated my C4 C5 so I’m a complete um quadriplegic uh so I’m paralyzed from below the shoulders I love playing chess

And so this is one of the things that yall have enabled me to do something that I wasn’t able to really do much last few years especially not like this um I had to use like a mouth stick and stuff but now it’s all uh it’s all being

Done with my brain if y’all can see the cursor moving around the screen that’s that’s all me y’all um it’s pretty cool huh actually can you pause the song just for the audio coming through and that was also done with your brain yep it’s all brain power up there

So a lot of what we started out with was attempting to move so would attempt to move say my right hand left right I think it just became intuitive for me to start Imagining the cursor moving um basically it was like uh using the force

On a cursor and I could get it to move wherever I wanted just stare somewhere in the screen and it would move where I wanted it to um which was such a wild experience

Noland Arbaugh, a 29-year-old quadriplegic who has a Neuralink brain-chip, demonstrates during a livestream how he is able to control his laptop cursor with his mind to play chess. Arbaugh received the implant in January, after the startup founded by Elon Musk was granted federal approval to test the device in humans. Following the approval from regulators, Reuters reported that US Food and Drug Administration inspectors found problems with recordkeeping and quality controls for animal experiments at the company.

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33 comments

  1. Imagine using this in front of a tribe with no knowledge of technology. They will think you are magic!

  5. Crazy they try to make it like its going to improve us while we let it consume humanity and no cares . I love being alive rn

  8. I have no problem with this but have issues with me as a person not a quadriplegic getting a implant. My regular limbs are just fine. No chips for me.

  9. Can you imagine when we get to the level where it can start correcting dyslexia? ADHD? Stimulating gaba release in treatment resistant depression? Moderating manic episodes in bipolar? We’re watching the start of the next evolution of mankind

  14. Unfortunately because it has Musk's grubby hands on it, I don't believe it. He has faked way too many things.

  27. I’m just waiting to see how many people start trashing this life changing breakthrough for so many humans when they find out it’s Elon’s company

  31. He was listening to Virtual Insanity, that was actually my theme song for this week. That's just odd as it isn't a song you hear often these days.

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