I'm curious how his imagined writing compares to the handwriting he had before he was paralyzed. Was it always that messy or are the BCI controls difficult to use? For example, his comma seems exaggerated, as though he had to imagine grand gestures to get the SW to recognize it as a valid character. But on the other hand, his "m" and "n" look fairly normal. It's possible that's just what his handwriting looks like.
Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
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Re: Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
#32This is the metaverse we should be funding, not phones strapped on bulky blindfolds.
Re: Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
#33This too will be weaponized. How? Capture a North Korean official, put one of these in his brain and siphon off all the juicy intel.
Capture a narco trafficker. ditto.
Capture a terrorist. ditto.
Have we made the world better?
It seems that whenever we develop ANY device for improved information processing, it disrupts the world we live in and displaces the uniquely human style of information processing-rendering humans less necessary. It is paradoxical. We make our lives 'easier' and human talent is lost.
Re: Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
#34It wouldn't be particularly hard for a trained person to block their thoughts to a brain implant, if the police were trying to read their mind.
It wouldn't require any training at all. This tech cannot read your thoughts. It's reading motor inputs.
The difference is on the level of hearing someone's chess moves dictated vs. reading their mind to understand how they perceive the game.
It is entirely a consciously composed and intentionally sent message.
Re: Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
#35> (Don't think this nurse is hot! Don't think this nurse is hot! Holy shit she's hot.) > (You can do this) > (OMG, is it on already?) > (You can do this) > (What a nice bottom) > (Don't think bottom you idiot) > (She's entering the room, think something else, now, fast, bunny bunny) > (Bunny) > (Bunny) > (Bunny, you got this)
I was just thinking about how, once this technology is perfected, at how easy it will be to interrogate high value prisoners. Just pop one of these in their head, and tell them not to think about the top secret or incriminating stuff.
... till I guess a deep fake thoughts arrive. ;-)
Re: Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
#36How do you measure accuracy? Is there another way the man can communicate?
edit: The researchers compared the BCI output to a prompt that T5 was supposed to restate. I was thinking that T5 was communicating without prompts in the experiment. This isn't my idea of translation accuracy, but you've got to have some baseline.
Re: Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
#37This too will be weaponized. How? Capture a North Korean official, put one of these in his brain and siphon off all the juicy intel. Capture a narco trafficker. ditto. Capture a terrorist. ditto. Have we made the world better? It seems that whenever we develop ANY device for improved information processing, it disrupts the world we live in and displaces the uniquely human style of information processing-rendering hum…
This doesn't work like this. Braingate (and all brain implants of this nature) require very active effort/cooperation in order to produce output. Here's what it feels like:
- Imagine, very hard, the act of moving your arm to write a message.
- Do everything that you would do to speak a word, except the actual act of articulating a word. Get as close as you can while stopping the actual muscles involved from firing.
These are not mind-readers. They hook into your normal brain circuitry. It mostly works the same way that you can type out a message on your keyboard without thinking about the keyboard: it's a brain HCI, `/dev/input`, not kernel-space.
Re: Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was just thinking about how, once this technology is perfected, at how easy it will be to interrogate high value prisoners. Just pop one of these in their head, and tell them not to think about the top secret or incriminating stuff.
... till I guess a deep fake thoughts arrive. ;-)
Adversarial thoughts that get misclassified into something safe.
Re: Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
#39This too will be weaponized. How? Capture a North Korean official, put one of these in his brain and siphon off all the juicy intel. Capture a narco trafficker. ditto. Capture a terrorist. ditto. Have we made the world better? It seems that whenever we develop ANY device for improved information processing, it disrupts the world we live in and displaces the uniquely human style of information processing-rendering hum…
This doesn't work like this. Braingate (and all brain implants of this nature) require very active effort/cooperation in order to produce output. Here's what it feels like: - Imagine, very hard, the act of moving your arm to write a message. - Do everything that you would do to speak a word, except the actual act of articulating a word. Get as close as you can while stopping the actual muscles involved from firing. T…
Really wouldn't surprise me if they figured out a way to do this in an unsupervised way though. (We might be decades from that though who knows.)
Re: Brain implant translates paralyzed man's thoughts into text with 94% accuracy
#40Something even more impressive, IMHO, from the same source: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-brain-implant-has-allowed-a-b...
It's Star Trek like technology (think TNG series' Geordi La Forge).