The Elon Musk-backed startup isimplanting computer chips in the brains of people with spinal cord injuries.
The pitch is that theyll be able to interface with computers directly and control computers with their mind.
Neuralink announced Alexs progress in ablog post on Wednesdaythat detailed his experiences with the chip.
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According to the blog, Alex was an automotive technician before his spinal cord injury and missed building things.
Im already super impressed with how this works, Alex said, according to Neuralink.
Neuralink also shared a video of Alex playing a bot match ofCounter-Strike 2with the gear.
Hes a fan of first-person shooters and previously had to play them using aQuadstick, a mouth-operated controller.
I can [think about where to] look and it goes where I want it to.
Its insane, he said.
Alex is the second patient to receive a Neuralink this year.
He played the game for eight hours straight, draining the power on his Neuralink.
Neuralink said it was able to compensate for this data loss by tweaking the program running the chip.
Neuralink said it was aware of this issue during Alexs surgery and took steps to guard against it.
So far, Alex has not experienced thread retraction and its consequences.
Neuralink has shown promise but has also been controversial.
Its co-founder left the company and later told the Wall Street Journal he wasworried about safetyunder Musks tenure.
The company also faced a federal probe over allegations of animal abuse but an investigationonly turned up one incident.
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