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Elon Musk: “This is something we've had working in monkeys for about…”

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Published | Video Starts at 45:47

So you've got to put the electrodes A little bit deeper to reach the visual cortex. And in this case, it's not reading, it's writing. It's effectively writing pixel to the visual cortex. This is something we've had working in monkeys for about three years now. In fact, one of our monkeys has both a telepathy implant and a blindsight implant. He's a very happy monkey. I do want to emphasize we take great care of our animals. (45:47–45:54)

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Asserts that Neuralink has been testing its technology on monkeys for three years.

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