"Musk presented what he described as the "three little pigs demo." Gertrude, the pig with a Neuralink implant in the part of the brain that controls the snout, required some coaxing by Musk to appear on camera, but eventually began eating off of a stool and sniffing straw, triggering spikes on a graph tracking the animal's neural activity.
Musk said the company had three pigs with two implants each, and also revealed a pig that previously had an implant. They were "healthy, happy and indistinguishable from a normal pig," Musk said. He said the company predicted a pig's limb movement during a treadmill run at "high accuracy" using implant data.
Musk described Neuralink's chip, which is roughly 23 millimeters in diameter, as "a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires."
"I could have a Neuralink right now and you wouldn't know," Musk said. "Maybe I do.""
Musk said the company had three pigs with two implants each, and also revealed a pig that previously had an implant. They were "healthy, happy and indistinguishable from a normal pig," Musk said. He said the company predicted a pig's limb movement during a treadmill run at "high accuracy" using implant data.
Musk described Neuralink's chip, which is roughly 23 millimeters in diameter, as "a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires."
"I could have a Neuralink right now and you wouldn't know," Musk said. "Maybe I do.""