Monkey Types 12 Words per Minute With Brain-to-Keyboard Communication

"To be or not to be. That is also the text that Monkey J typed out using a brain implant to control a computer cursor. To be clear, the monkey didn't know it was copying Shakespeare, and it had no deep thoughts about Hamlet's famous monologue. Monkey J and its colleague, Monkey L, were both trained to use their neural implants to move a cursor over a computer screen, hitting circles as they turned green. Stanford University researchers placed letters on those targets to simulate the typing task. So to tap out the line from Hamlet, first the "T" circle was illuminated, then the "O," and so on. What was the point of this exercise? Was it simply an excuse to let journalists trot out the "infinite monkey theorem"? Because here we go: This probability theorem states that if you give a monkey a typewriter and infinite time, its random keystrokes will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. No, the bioengineers had a more practical motivation.