Brad Smith, the third paralyzed patient who could benefit from the Neuralink brain implant, Elon Musk’s company, managed to publish and establish his first YouTube video. All, just thanks to thought.
In the ten -minute publication, online a week ago, you can listen to a robotic, rebuilt voice of the old Brad Smith recordings, which can no longer speak. The man, who suffers from an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Charcot’s disease, tells how “Neuralink changed his life and how he used the chip daily.”
“Neuralink does not read my deepest thoughts”
Therefore, the man specifies how the brain-computer interface allows you to use brain signals to control your macbook mouse to mount the video. According to him, he is the first to settle with Neuralink.
“Neuralink does not read my deepest thoughts. Just read how and where I want to move the cursor,” explains Brad Smith. If he tried to imagine moving his hand to control the cursor, it has finally been more effective to think about moving the tongue and tightening the jaw to control the cursor and click practically on the mouse.
The “the size of a room” implant would also allow you to choose an automatically generated response thanks to Grok 3, the Elon Musk AI, listening to their conversations with their loved ones.
In a publication about X, Ex-Twitter, also invited Internet users to ask questions. “I am the third person in the world to receive the Neuralink brain implant. I write this with my brain. This is my main means of communication. Do me all your questions,” he gets excited.
This is not the first time that there has been talk of the capacities of the Neuralink chips. In February 2024, the first human implanted with Neuralink managed to move a computer mouse simply through thought. A month later, he managed to play chess, Mario Kart and Civilization 6 Thanks to the implant. For his part, the second patient had fun playing the famous shooting game Contra-Strike 2.
Awesome progress that makes Elon Musk the business. The business owner hopes to see “hundreds of people with Neuralinks in a few years, maybe tens of thousands in 5 years, millions in 10 years,” he said in X last August.
Source: BFM TV
