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

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

> 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.