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.
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.