Technology

The lab has built its own software platform for operating BCI devices known as Brain-computer interface for Rapidly Adaptive Neural Decoding (BRAND, which Brandman told us was coincidentally named), which UCD postdoctoral fellow Nick Card built machine learning algorithms for.

Aah.. So not LLMs. Makes sense.

Also to the reporter who decided to focus on 'full time job' in the title. You focused on 5 hours of work instead of the fact that the patient can now interact with his daughter, who never heard him speak, and also he is able to have conversations with his friends and family. Please be more human.

To me this title reads more like a capitalistic celebration of potential labor from an otherwise un-exploitable workforce, instead of a celebration of a major breakthrough in giving some semblance of dignity and autonomy to a person who was robbed of it by this terrible affliction.

Yes there are a lot of dark sides to this but I am still somewhat hopeful for people whose body have betrayed them.

Unfortunately the unmentioned horror of this technology as it currently stands is similar to "Flowers for algernon". The brain is extremely territorial and doesn't like weird metallic stuff stuck in it. In response, I believe the astrocytes build encapsulating scar tissue around the probes that eventually deafen them. I have been following this tech since the early stages in the late 90's and no one seems to have solved that. Truly bitter experience for epilepsy and near terminally depressed patients who have been given some semblance of normallacy only to have it slip away.

A currently insanely expensive probe design has something like a magnet on a mems platform so a less reactive and normally insulating material can be used to "sense" electrical impulses. Sadly it has something brutal like a sub 5% production yield and can be damaged almost anywhere along the journey from a fabrication laboratory to a operating room.

Peak capitalism. The Matrix would be proud

I'm sure that patient is happy to find something to do that adds to the general pool of "things we do".

I also hope that they also say "fuck this", retire, and do art full time if its their jam.

[CAPITALISM INTENSIFIES]

New slave market discovered.

r/orphancrushingmachine -I'm not sure there's a parallel lemmy community.

If you cant work, we will invent solutions!

Work must continue

Proprietary tech with no existing laws telling the companies they have to keep supporting it, all so I can make a rich person richer? Where do I sign up?

Hell yeah. Next, they can get a cut of every dollar made! Or a subscription service with strict usage limits and add-ons to re-enable disabled functionality. It's one or the other.

I wonder if he can use slurs.