{"id":13035,"date":"2025-02-27T14:18:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T21:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13035"},"modified":"2025-01-01T14:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T21:25:59","slug":"neural-implant-is-like-an-aimbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13035","title":{"rendered":"Neural implant is like an aimbot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noland_Arbaugh\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noland_Arbaugh\">Noland Arbaugh<\/a> is the only person so far to have been fitted with a brain implant by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/elon-musks-neuralink-faces-problem-with-its-tiny-wires-in-brain\/\">Neuralink<\/a>. The hope was that he could control digital devices with his thoughts. Now, more than 100 days after the implantation, Arbaugh went on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bfo2xIeaOAE\">Joe Rogan podcast<\/a>\u00a0to share his experience and how gaming has been re-introduced into his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His thoughts? Rave reviews. \u201cI basically have an aimbot in my head. They\u2019ll probably have different leagues for people like me because it\u2019s just not fair.&#8221; \u201cIt\u2019s that accurate and it\u2019s faster\u2026Sometimes, it\u2019s moving before I even think it to move.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were later issues with the implanted wires pulling back, but Neuralink updated the software in lieu of more surgery and has proposed solutions for the 2nd possible patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bfo2xIeaOAE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Articles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/first-neuralink-patient-says-implant-is-like-an-aimbot-for-gaming-explains-how-gaming-industry-may-have-to-change\/\">https:\/\/readwrite.com\/first-neuralink-patient-says-implant-is-like-an-aimbot-for-gaming-explains-how-gaming-industry-may-have-to-change\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/neuralink-gets-fda-green-light-for-second-patient-as-first-describes-his-emotional-journey-a2707584\">https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/neuralink-gets-fda-green-light-for-second-patient-as-first-describes-his-emotional-journey-a2707584<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noland Arbaugh is the only person so far to have been fitted with a brain implant by\u00a0Neuralink. The hope was that he could control digital devices with his thoughts. Now, more than 100 days after the implantation, Arbaugh went on the\u00a0Joe Rogan podcast\u00a0to share his experience and how gaming has been re-introduced into his life. His thoughts? Rave reviews. \u201cI basically have an aimbot in my head. They\u2019ll probably have different leagues for people like me because it\u2019s just not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13035\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3of","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13037,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13035\/revisions\/13037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}