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Submission + - Brain Interface Speaks Your Thoughts in Near Real-time

backslashdot writes: Commentary, video, and a publication in this week's Nature Neuroscience herald a significant advance in brain–computer interface (BCI) technology, enabling speech by decoding electrical activity in the brain's sensorimotor cortex in real-time. Researchers from UC Berkeley and UCSF employed deep learning recurrent neural network transducer models to decode neural signals in 80-millisecond intervals, generating fluent, intelligible speech tailored to each participant’s pre-injury voice. Unlike earlier methods that synthesized speech only after a full sentence was completed, this system can detect and vocalize words within just three seconds. It is accomplished via a 253 electrode array chip implant on the brain. Code, and the dataset to replicate the main findings of this study are available in the Chang Lab's public GitHub repository.

Comment Judicial pushback is not sustainable (Score 4, Insightful) 24

Ultimately, the only thing that will work long term is educating and creating a culture that respects the human right to free speech, and more importantly due process. Judges can be replaced after all. Every human regardless of situation and circumstance is entitled to due process, which is the ability to defend themselves fairly against being punished for accusations. If you don't want to respect that, then you should pray there's no God. Pray there's no future mechanism by which your soul may be thrust into such predicament. We already have a government snatching foreigners off the street, with no prior notification that their visa was revoked, and may eventually be selling them as slaves to work camps. And don't think a future government won't seize born or legitimately naturalized citizens off the road after arbitrarily revoking citizenship. They are already revoking the ability guaranteed birth right citizenship .. this is so that they have mechanisms to challenge political rivals. Remember Trump not only questioned the citizenship of Barack Obama, but also John McCain -- the descendent of war heroes. Even if you and your family members can prove you were born here (we know databases are unhackable right?) .. if we have a system by which the state can utilize plain clothes unidentifiable enforcement agents to snatch people off the street .. that same system will get used against citizens eventually. It may start with being used against pedophiles, who would argue against that? Then murderers, surely murderers should be deprived of citizenship. Or, maybe they will make it so that if you say something negative about the government or the US that is treason, and a citizenship revocable action. And that can happen to anyone. Remember Elon Musk called Mark Kelly .. who is a combat veteran, a traitor because he visited Ukraine. It's virtually guaranteed corrupt politicians will abuse the combined power of citizenship revocation and the ability to catch and expel non-citizens to unaudited prison camps with no due process.

Comment Re: Scared? Humans are far worse. (Score 1) 54

Umm, ok .. you want to drive that's fine. People liked riding horses too, they didn't protest against cars (sort of: https://www.saturdayeveningpos... ). And by the way, nobody banned horse riding. I guess you don't have to commute daily into a city in stop and go traffic. I guess you have nothing else to do with your productive time that you don't mind sitting in a car driving it instead of doing work. But don't go around calling people snowflake just because you're scared of automated cars.

Comment Scared? Humans are far worse. (Score 1) 54

This is scary, but do remember that 260,000 people die in Chinese traffic accidents every year. Reference: https://www.scmp.com/news/chin... (the US number is 40,000 btw) due to an error a human made. The vast majority of those dying are not the at-fault driver, but some other human .. a passenger, other driver, or pedestrian. And let's not get into debilitating injuries. We really need computers to take over driving ASAP.

Comment Collusion (Score 1) 15

These guys are talking to each other and you know it. Is there a backlog and have they increased or decreased production? That's what will fish out the truth. These prices hikes aren't so they can raise the cap-ex to increase production (that's what investors and bank loans are for), which means they are colluding.

Comment You realize what's coming next right? (Score 4, Interesting) 105

The AI will code in some prompt gibberish that is suited for AIs to debug. I've been "vibe coding" for maybe a year and a half or two ... the thing it REALLY sucks at is UI .. debugging React shit . it gets confused and fucked .. it's own code .. it can't fix its own shit. Many times I stubbornly spend an hour trying fix via prompting shit that I can fix in 5 minutes of manual review. Guaranteed what comes out of this mess is UI frameworks and programming languages lobotomized such that AI can code in it and more importantly debug it.

Comment Re: I don't like the design (Score 1) 93

Oh, hmm well 20 to 25 miles a day isn't too bad .. I'll assume in less than average conditions it would still get at least 10 miles .. even that's not too bad. If you live off grid, and don't have home solar panels, that could probably get you into the nearest small town and back once or twice a week.

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