00:00Sebastian Gomez Pena is paralyzed from the neck down, but he can now use his
00:04thoughts to get things done. In his first year of medical school he hit the
00:08ground while diving and broke his neck. Since then he's been paralyzed. Now he is
00:14one of 21 test patients worldwide who have an implant in their brains developed
00:18by Elon Musk's company Neuralink. Thanks to the chip he can control a computer
00:23with his thoughts. I think I'm moving my hand to the right, to the left, thinking about
00:26clicking my fingers and the technology just understands what I want to do and
00:31it does it. A surgical robot inserts the ultra-thin threads into the brain. These
00:36connect to the chip in the skull. It can record brain activity and transmit data
00:41wirelessly to a computer. When Sebastian Gomez Pena thinks about moving his hand
00:46electrodes pick up the signal and an AI software translates his thoughts into
00:51actions like clicking a mouse. The technology is only in the test phase but
00:55for the British medical student it's life-changing. Researchers criticized that
00:59the findings have yet to be published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. They
01:04are calling for larger and longer trials to assess the chip's long-term safety,
01:08reliability, and durability.
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