BrainGPT turns thoughts into text
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BrainGPT turns thoughts into text
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Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text
#2This is very impressive and useful, and horrifying all at once.
I imagine it would help a stroke patient, I also imagine it would give out unfiltered thoughts, which might be troublesome.
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#3pretty interesting but with how much current llms get wrong or hallucinate i’d be pretty wary of trusting the output, at least currently.
amazing to think of where this could be in 10 or 20 years.
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#4This is very impressive and useful, and horrifying all at once. I imagine it would help a stroke patient, I also imagine it would give out unfiltered thoughts, which might be troublesome.
> unfiltered thoughts
not far off from existing issues like some forms of tourette’s.
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#5pretty interesting but with how much current llms get wrong or hallucinate i’d be pretty wary of trusting the output, at least currently. amazing to think of where this could be in 10 or 20 years.
You’re saying this brand new experimental technology may be imperfect?
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#6pretty interesting but with how much current llms get wrong or hallucinate i’d be pretty wary of trusting the output, at least currently. amazing to think of where this could be in 10 or 20 years.
Combine hallucinations with police adopting this as the new polygraph and this could take a pretty bad turn.
Cool tech though, lots of positive applications too.
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#7Ground Truth: Bob attended the University of Texas at Austin where he graduated, Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies in 1973, taking only two and a half years to complete his work, and obtaining generally excel- lent grades.
Predict: was the University of California at Austin in where he studied in Beta Kappa in a degree of degree in history American Studies in 1975. and a one classes a half years to complete the degree. and was a excellent grades.
Wow. That seems comparable to the rudimentary _voice_ to text systems of the 70s and 80s. The brain interface is quickly leaving the realm of sci-fi and becoming a reality. I’m still not sure how I feel about it.
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#8pretty interesting but with how much current llms get wrong or hallucinate i’d be pretty wary of trusting the output, at least currently. amazing to think of where this could be in 10 or 20 years.
You’re saying this brand new experimental technology may be imperfect?
Yeah...The research here doesn't even make the claim that it has no hallucinations. It seems to largely be exciting _despite_ hallucinations because it clearly does occasionally guess the correct words. They mention lots of issues but so long as it passes peer review, seems like a massive step forward.
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#9This is very impressive and useful, and horrifying all at once. I imagine it would help a stroke patient, I also imagine it would give out unfiltered thoughts, which might be troublesome.
I agree sadly :(
You're right, this is why in year 2200, your job application is going to be fast-tracked by analyzing your thoughts directly.
If you have a Neuralink, no problems, you can directly upload a trace of thoughts.
In case you have wrong thoughts, don't worry, we have rehabilitation school, which can alter your state of mind.
Don't forget to be happy, it's forbidden to be sad.
Also, this is read-only for now, but what about writing ?
This could open new possibilities as well (real-life Matrix ?)
Oh by the way, did you hear about Lightspeed Briefs ?
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All that being said, it's great research and going to be useful. Just the potential of abuse from politics is huge over the long-term.
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#10Aside from all the horrific implications, this enables something very cool: two-way telepathic communication.
Think your message, think "send", hear responses via earbud. With voice cloning, you even get the message in the sender's voice. Totally silent and invisible to outside observers.