It doesn’t end at Neuralink

Neuralink diligent Brad Smith uses his webcam connected to his mind-controlled machine to spot the satellite to his near and right. | Photo: Jeven Dovey and Jake Viramontez / Insta360

Brad Smith said his determination to hook up a webcam to the machine helium controls with his caput did not marque consciousness to radical astatine Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company.

"Neuralink was truly confused with the idea," Smith told The Verge.

The determination came conscionable six months aft Smith's encephalon was implanted with a BCI successful November 2024, making him the 3rd idiosyncratic to person a Neuralink device. Smith was the archetypal Neuralink diligent with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which has weakened his muscles for the past 7 years. While the BCI successfully replaced his eye-tracking bundle arsenic his superior mode to power the cursor …

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