If you own it, then you can name it. That is what Neuralink's first patient did when he reported that he has given his brain-chip implant a name seven months after it was surgically implanted.
Noland Arbaugh, who is quadriplegic and became the first person to get the computer-controlling implant developed by Elon Musk's brain-interface company, said last 28 August that he had named the device "Eve" and was working with it to improve himself in different ways.
Arbaugh wrote in a post on X that he spends about four hours a day in sessions with staff at Neuralink, Monday through Friday, testing the implant. In his free time, he uses the device to read, study the Bible, and learn languages.
"Currently, I'm learning French and Japanese for roughly three hours a day using a few different resources," he said.
"I also decided to relearn my math from the ground up in preparation for hopefully going back to school one day," Arbaugh added.
Arbaugh, who was paralyzed in 2016 from the shoulders down in what he previously called a "freak diving accident," received Neuralink's brain implant in January.
The chip captures the brain's activity and sends it to a computer via Bluetooth, allowing the user to control the movement of a computer cursor and surf the web, play video games, and design 3D models — for example — by visualizing these things happening.
The surgery was initially successful, but in the following weeks, the device began to malfunction after several of its 64 threads, each thinner than a human hair, retracted away from his brain.
Now that the device's functionality has been fully restored, Arbaugh said he was keen to return to college and either finish his degree or switch to studying neuroscience as he "might have some insight to the field at this point."
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