A new AI system’ can translate a person’s brain activity into text. Although it is not a word-for-word transcript, researchers at the University of Texas designed it to capture the gist of what is being thought, albeit imperfectly. Researchers warn that their ‘semantic decoder’ could be used for bad purposes, but also say it might help people who are mentally conscious yet unable to physically speak, such as those debilitated by strokes, to communicate intelligibly again.
I wonder how it works with people that speak multiple language or mixed languages. Are the thoughts in the brain language agnostic? As we imagine the same thing just in different words.
It’s very interesting research and can help people with good intentions but someone will inevitably use it for their own benefits.
That’s a good question. I understand from the article that the decoder must be trained on the individual, so I guess that might solve the problem? I’m not an expert on this, so I don’t know.