Audrey Crews, a Neuralink recipient recently shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) sharing her laptop screen with her name on it. Now, what made it special was that the name was written telepathically, using only her thoughts. Sharing the post, Crews wrote “I tried writing my name for the first time in 20 years. Im working on it. Lol”. The post has gone viral with more than 2 million views with many resharing it on their X timeline and commenting on the achievement. The post also caught the attention of Tesla CEO Elon Musk.Audrey Crews’ post was quoted by an X user who said “Neuralink recipient writes her name for the first time in 20 years telepathically”. Musk, who co-founded Neuralink in 2016, replied to the post writing “She is controlling her computer just by thinking. Most people don’t realize this is possible.”
Who is Audrey Crews
Identified as P9 in Neuralink’s PRIME clinical trial, Audrey Crews became the first woman in history to get a chip implant by Neuralink last week. Crews has been paralysed for 20 years. Sharing her story on X, Crews wrote “I had surgery last week and everything is going amazing. It was brain surgery, they drilled a hole in my skull and placed 128 threads into my motor cortex. The chip is about the size of a quarter.”Explaining how the brain-computer interface (BCI) works, she wrote “The BCI lets me control my computer using my mind. I’ll be able to control more electronic devices in the near future.”In the post, she clarified that the “implant will not allow me to walk again or regain movement. Its strictly for telepathy only.” “We are still in Miami but I’ll be home soon and we’ll post more vids explaining the proses in more detail. I am the first women in the world to do this,” she concluded.
