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research team suggests development of applications that convert full thoughts into text, controlling objects in real and virtual worlds—and even perhaps augmented memory.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also sounds like the pipe dream of interrogators.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Article title is misleading. This is just a fancy EEG that doesn’t need to be surgically implanted.

It can only”turn thoughts into text” if the user /recipient spends weeks/months training to “think loudly” enough for their words to be detectable in their brainwaves and translated by a machine like this

I think it’s really important for us to be careful of the misuse and abuse of BCIs, but the technology isn’t far enough yet for us to be worried about what you’ve described

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Ah fuck, I notice I fall back to reddit behavior of only reading titles. Thanks for clarifying (and for making me aware of my dangerous media usage).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This sounds so cheesy I'm already anticipating the really bad text-to-speech voiceover.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder if it made my tinnitus worse or better.