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Brain-computer interface allows paralysed man to write again

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https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/brain-...ite-again/

INTRO: A paralysed man has used a brain-computer to write on a screen at speeds almost as fast as an able-bodied adult, according to a new study.

Researchers have developed a method of communication for people with paralysis that uses a computer to turn mental handwriting into on-screen words. A computer decodes attempted handwriting movements from brain signals, and may allow much faster communication than was previously possible, scientists say.

They report that a combination of mental effort and state-of-the-art technology have allowed a man with immobilised limbs to communicate by text at speeds rivalling those achieved by his able-bodied peers texting on a smartphone. The team, based at Stanford University, coupled artificial-intelligence software with a device, called a brain-computer interface (BCI), implanted in the man’s brain.

The software was able to decode information from the computer to quickly convert the man’s thoughts about handwriting into text on a computer screen, according to the study published in Nature.

The man was able to write using this approach more than twice as quickly as he could using a previous method developed by the Stanford researchers, who reported those findings in 2017 in the journal eLife. (MORE)
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I've known this was possible with typing and BCI's. A person with a typing skill could have the words that are written placed into the equivalent of text-to-speech. Merged with predictive algorithms used for word replacing, syntax etc it's possible to have it almost inverse, where the person creating the writing and being interpreted loops back what it hears as an input and becomes a follower of the systems looped input.

The premise is actually what I would believe is possible to create intelligence in regards to life in the first place. Creating the equivalent of a slider/spaceship* of "consciousness" in a biological gellatinous construct. (Conway's game of life) Initially using a loopback until it can sustain it's own pathways.
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