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Neural implants plus AI turns sentence-length thoughts to text:
For people with limited use of their limbs, speech recognition can be critical for their ability to operate a computer. But for many, the same problems that limit limb motion affect the muscles that allow speech. That had made any form of communication a challenge, as physicist Stephen Hawking famously demonstrated. Ideally, we'd like to find a way to get upstream of any physical activity and identify ways of translating nerve impulses to speech.
Brain-computer interfaces were making impressive advances even before Elon Musk decided to get involved, but the problem of brain-to-text wasn't one of its successes. We've been able to recognize speech in the brain for a decade, but the accuracy and speed of this process are quite low. Now, some researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, are suggesting that the problem might be that we weren't thinking about the challenge in terms of the big-picture process of speaking. And they have a brain-to-speech system to back them up.
Joseph G. Makin, David A. Moses & Edward F. Chang. Machine translation of cortical activity to text with an encoder–decoder framework. Nature Neuroscience, 2020. DOI: 10.1038/s41593-020-0608-8
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2020, @06:32PM (2 children)
i was thinking about how awesome it would be if you could do the revers and learn by downloading text straight into your brain without having to read it. Then maybe you could build a memorizing scrript which firmly planted it into your long term memory. Become and expert in all the relevant programming languages in a few days (sponsored by Scroogle of course).
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday April 01 2020, @06:57PM
It would have been more awesome before we had the web. Now there's almost no point in ever memorizing anything because you can just search online in seconds. My brain's become so lazy at this that sometimes I feel almost like so long as I bookmark a web page, I don't even need to read it, because the information's already been absorbed into my extended memory that is my computer.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday April 03 2020, @02:39PM
There's a big difference between memorizing and understanding.
-- hendrik