Potentially, he will get more opportunities to manage it compared to the first one.
Neuralink planned to implant the implant into the brain of its second patient last month, and when exactly this happened is not specified, but the agency Reuters citing Elon Musk’s statements on Friday, the surgery was a success. As in the first case, the second patient who received the implant has a spinal injury that has left him unable to move his limbs, but other information about him has not yet been disclosed. Musk only noted that of the 1,024 electrodes implanted in the cerebral cortex during the implantation, at least 400 are working in the second patient.
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However, the first patient Noland Arbaugh, who was present on the podcast, as Musk explained, was able to set a record for the speed of cursor movement using the power of thought, using no more than 10-15% of the electrodes. As noted earlier, after the operation in January, some of the electrodes came out of engagement with the cerebral cortex, but Neuralink specialists were able to compensate for this loss using software, allowing Noland Arbaugh to continue training in controlling the computer cursor with the power of thought without additional surgical interventions. By the end of this year, Neuralink plans to implant brain implants in eight more patients, as Elon Musk explained. He also intends to seek from Donald Trump, if he wins the presidential election, a reduction in the bureaucratic burden on innovative sectors of the American economy.
