Brain Implant Translates Paralyzed Man's Thoughts Into Text With 94% Accuracy

[Charlemagne]

Brain Implant Translates Paralyzed Man's Thoughts Into Text With 94% Accuracy

A man paralyzed from the neck down due to a spinal cord injury he sustained in 2007 has shown he can communicate his thoughts, thanks to a brain implant system that translates his imagined handwriting into actual text.

www.sciencealert.com

 

[IM469]

They tried a similar technique with Stephen Hawking but never reached this success.

Just thinking, thinking but I wonder if this could end up an involuntary recording technique for interrogation. You put this cap on and when a question is asked, the answer is printed before it can be consciencely suppressed.

 

[Ref]

what will they think of next?

 

[onomatopoeia]

Yada... I wonder if this could end up an involuntary recording technique for interrogation. You put this cap on and when a question is asked, the answer is printed before it can be consciencely suppressed.

It's been done.





I think, statistically, paraplegics commit 0% of all violent crimes and traffic infractions. Why would you want to interrogate a guy who can't move or speak?