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The first man to wear Musk’s Neuralink chip suffers an accident: goodbye to controlling the PC with his thoughts
A little over a month after receiving the chip, the first problems began.
Noland Arbaugh is the first paralyzed man to receive, implanted, the Neuralink chip, manufactured by Elon Musk’s team, and although it marked a milestone and the experiment seemed to get off to a good start, it has ended up failing. After more than 400 days with the chip in Arbaugh’s brain, patient zero, and to replace natural gestures and movements with artificial brain impulses, it has been revealed that the first problems soon began.
What went wrong with the Neuralink chip?
It was last January 2024 when 64 wires and 1024 electrodes were implanted in Arbaugh’s brain. All these devices, using artificial intelligence, record Arbaugh’s desired brain impulses of movement and speech and transmit them to a computer screen, where the recreated impulse moves a cursor. Unfortunately, this complex system soon failed.
It was discovered that just over a month after that, 85% of the electrodes attached to Arbaugh’s skull had become detached, causing the patient to lose the ability to control the computer with his thoughts. However, it wasn’t exactly the fault of the electronic system....
What happened was that the brain tissue around all the implanted devices healed more slowly than expected, causing movements in the wires that made them practically useless. Despite this setback, Arbaugh confesses that he wanted to go ahead with the experiment, which has an expiration date, since in 5 years the chip will be removed from his brain and he will again lose the ability to express himself.
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