New brain implants ‘read’ words directly from people’s thoughts

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Scientists have devised ways to “read” words directly from brains.

— Brain implants can translate internal speech into external signals, permitting communication from people with paralysis or other diseases that steal their ability to talk or type.

Some people who need help communicating can currently use devices that require small movements, such as eye gaze changes. Those tasks aren’t possible for everyone. So the new studies targeted internal speech, which requires a person to do nothing more than think. Neural signals associated with words are detected by electrodes implanted in the brain. The signals can then be translated into text, which can be made audible by computer programs that generate speech.

Wandelt and colleagues could accurately predict which of eight words a person who was paralyzed below the neck was thinking. The man was bilingual, andElectrodes picked up nerve cell signals in his posterior parietal cortex, a brain area involved in speech and hand movements. A brain implant there might eventually be used to control devices that can perform tasks usually done by a hand too, Wandelt says.

 

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GREAT SO MUCH 4 PRIVACY!!

Okay, test 1, here we go. No. Don't type that. Back up. Stop typing that too. Don't start yet. Start over. Shit. NO! Don't type that either. Damn it, just start over. Erase everything. What do you mean there's no erase. It's all recorded? Where?

A moça está fumando um?

A miracle for disabled if widely available and wisely used.

ZaoPort is pushing the boundaries of neural communication. Human enlightenment is now within reach. Will you ascend?

Good information

Pretty amazing!

or you can implant implants into healthy people to monitor, enhance and surrender to the commands of artificial intelligence. such a symbiosis would save human civilization from certain singularity and death

Can they be transferred from one brain implant to another?

GIVE ME ONE I NEED 2 READ MY THOUGHTS!!

That’s amazing! Also to all the comments lmao did u not read the article it’s to help people who have had strokes etc who can’t speak

See they keep constructing stages of removing free thought or deduction. What kind of indoctrination are we in when we put technology into us? That there be no freedom of speech, articulation.

“Nice tits, oh fuck uh think of something smart tits, Fuck!”

This is so neat. But what if it spoke your thoughts that are not meant to be heard. That hand squeeze should have a back up.

Does it work if you implant that in an posterior position? It should because I think you're doing it now.

I actually tried to do this with EEG in 2016.

Ears can detect it too. It's bery simple. Just listen.

Excellent! My vision of merging the human meat puppet with machines for total control is getting closer.

When does the mind-reading wireless version of this come out…and should we make the wireless-blocking tinfoil hats now?

Politicians be like

Wow! That will be transformative

Soon we will broadcast our thoughts

So, my tinfoil hat collection wasn't all that weird, was it.

Guess what I'm thinking now...

dmellieon Oh man. Anyone reading mine is in for a hell of a ride

Oh great. Now it starts the end of humanity. I feel joy for the people this will help sorrow for humanity. This will evolve into a tool for nefarious government around the globe.

How do you validate that? Sounds like a great way to extract bogus 'confessions' to me.

Not good news; I think.

I don't think I like this idea. 😟

What did they 'read' from gaffe master Biden? C'mon man!

They are still trying to understand why it doesn’t work on liberals.

It seems that I already do that.

Gee - Any strings attached?

evrimagaci 👆🏽

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