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From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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Re: From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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[stub for offtopicness] p.s. come on you guys - this is not what HN is for. You may not owe $megacorp better but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

Any minute: wear it permanently to sell training data on LLMs. Take an audited IQ test to negotiate your rate. Better than text-stripping the internet - this thing will soon be pulling the logits as well.

I can actually see this happening someday. Theoretical physicists could charge thousands of dollars an hour.

Re: From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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[stub for offtopicness] p.s. come on you guys - this is not what HN is for. You may not owe $megacorp better but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

It'll be a cold day in hell before Meta gets access to my brainwaves. Good heavens, can you imagine?

Re: From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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It's worth noting that this isn't new technology. This paper is specifically about how their new technique provides a small but statistically significant improvement on existing techniques.

The fact that they provide code and dataset is really praiseworthy.

Re: From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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[stub for offtopicness] p.s. come on you guys - this is not what HN is for. You may not owe $megacorp better but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

Do they test against people not in their training cohort?

Re: From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any minute: wear it permanently to sell training data on LLMs. Take an audited IQ test to negotiate your rate. Better than text-stripping the internet - this thing will soon be pulling the logits as well.

I can actually see this happening someday. Theoretical physicists could charge thousands of dollars an hour.

if you think they're going to pay people for their data you haven't been paying attention

they'll just put it buried on page 450 of the meta glasses 3 or something

Re: From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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[stub for offtopicness] p.s. come on you guys - this is not what HN is for. You may not owe $megacorp better but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

The dystopian future will use this to get passwords/passphrases.

Wouldn’t a wrench work just as well?

Re: From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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[stub for offtopicness] p.s. come on you guys - this is not what HN is for. You may not owe $megacorp better but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

Coming soon to a Meta office near you: brain-scanning to make sure employees are focused, happy, and productive!

There are no layoffs in Ba Sing Se.

Re: From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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[stub for offtopicness] p.s. come on you guys - this is not what HN is for. You may not owe $megacorp better but you owe this community better if you're participating here.

I tried it all it said was "Hot or not?" before it crashed

Re: From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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So attended an interesting talk a couple years ago:

- fMRI and/or brain implants are the best to figure out brain waves

- but they are expensive or invasive

- EEG is a lot cheaper and easier but not as precise

- BUT what if you used LLMs to analyze EEG data taken at the same time as brain implants etc

The answer seemed to be that "yes, you can get better than traditional EEG data using EEG + LLMs". Curious to see where this ends up and hopefully not that like that Black Mirror episode with the brain scanning leading to murders.

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