Title:
A New Brain Implant Turns Thoughts Into Text With 90 Percent Accuracy
Author:
Shelly Fan
Published:
SingularityHub, 18 May 2021
From the article:
Texting might not be faster than speech, but for many of us it’s a natural way to communicate.
Thanks to a new brain-computer interface (BCI), people with paralysis can now do the same—with a twist. By imagining the motions of writing letters, a man with spinal injury was able to translate thoughts into text, at a speed that rivals thumb typing on a smartphone. At 90 characters per minute and an accuracy of over 90 percent after autocorrect, the system leapfrogs every record previously accomplished using neural implants.
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