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Brain-reading device is best yet at decoding ‘internal speech’ (www.nature.com)

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Brain-machine interfaces implanted in the participants of this study in the supramarginal gyrus (SMG) and primary somatosensory cortex (S1) were successfully able to decode both internally spoken and vocalized words.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01867-y?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=1586f44658-nature-briefing-daily-20240514&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-1586f44658-52006460 (open access)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is scary. It's cool technology for the disabled but I can absolutely see this being abused.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Every technology has the potential to be abused. This isn't even at the top of the worst offenders.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

This is at the top of the worst offenders.