The future is finally here! Just a couple of months after Neuralink announced they’d successfully implanted a brain chip into a human for the first time, footage has now emerged of the paralysed man in question controlling a computer and playing chess using nothing but the power of his mind:

The first human Neuralink patient, who is paralysed, is able to control a computer and play chess just by thinking. pic.twitter.com/1kX4IcFm5T

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) March 20, 2024

Unreal. Now obviously playing chess with your brain is cool and everything but I’m sure what this guy really wants to do is get up from his wheelchair and start walking, which is just one goal that Neuralink is still working towards. Then again, to go from living like a vegetable who can basically do nothing to now being able to play chess on a screen just by “thinking” must feel like a pretty life-changing moment for the guy, so fair play to Elon Musk and his team for making it happen. Speaking of Elon, here’s how he responded to the footage going viral:

Just the beginning

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 20, 2024

Sounds like something a supervillain would say, but OK. Hopefully what he means is that Neuralink is well on its way to achieving its ultimate end goal: helping disabled people return to full functionality, and curing conditions such as blindness, nerve damage, Alzheimer’s, dementia, memory loss and depression. Although the cynic in me says they’ve got some other uses for Neuralink in mind that we may not necessarily be privy to just yet.

Well, whatever happens, it’s pretty f*cking mental how far the technology has come already. How the hell are we seeing brains control computers before we’ve seen flying cars? History in the making, indeed.

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