anonsequitur t1_j5v1bfp wrote on January 25, 2023 at 7:34 PM

Reply to comment by esprit-de-lescalier in An ALS patient set a record for communicating via a brain implant: 62 words per minute by esprit-de-lescalier

Wow. Imagine being able to send commands to electronic interfaces with this. You could give paralyzed people the ability to use computer again through the cmd console.

You could even have a fully paralyzed programmer. It's approaching real ghost in the shell stuff here

cmack1597 t1_j5v82g8 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 8:15 PM

Vr with no controllers

PM_2_Talk_LocalRaces t1_j5v8j18 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 8:18 PM

I've seen enough anime to know why that's both exciting and terrifying.

ChronWeasely t1_j5vho1d wrote on January 25, 2023 at 9:13 PM

That's just called The Matrix

Insolent_redneck t1_j5vdfsv wrote on January 25, 2023 at 8:48 PM

Seems like a net netrunner from the Cyberpunk universe. Hopefully as technology advances (as it does) it doesn't wind up turning disabled people into processors or whatever. Still, really cool tech that will wind up improving lives if it matures some more.

ShaolinShade t1_j5wirmb wrote on January 26, 2023 at 1:24 AM

> You could give paralyzed people the ability to use computer again through the cmd console.

Why would they be limited to a cmd console interface...? It's not like the I/O of brain-computer interfaces is limited to text

anonsequitur t1_j5wkcmi wrote on January 26, 2023 at 1:35 AM

>Why would they be limited to a cmd console interface...? It's not like the I/O of brain-computer interfaces is limited to text

Because the article doesn't mention any interface beyond text. And I'm not in the habit of speculating past technology that's currently available. Maybe in the future if an interface like that is created, sure. But right now it appears to just be text.

ShaolinShade t1_j5wn15a wrote on January 26, 2023 at 1:54 AM

Did you read the article..? It talks about how speech is one of the most complicated actions / combination of motions the brain performs, and that they're reading motor I/O from multiple regions and functions (breath, lips etc) in order to recreate that into words.

We've had the technology for GUI manipulation through brain-computer interfaces for a while now, controlling a cursor on screen was accomplished long before any form of working speech recognition.