An AI can decode speech from brain activity with surprising accuracy

Incomprehensible dystopian cyber nightmare brought to you by Marc Zuckerborg

An artificial intelligence can decode words and sentences from brain activity with surprising — but still limited — accuracy. Using only a few seconds of brain activity data, the AI guesses what a person has heard. It lists the correct answer in its top 10 possibilities up to 73 percent of the time, researchers found in a preliminary study.
The AI’s “performance was above what many people thought was possible at this stage,” says Giovanni Di Liberto, a computer scientist at Trinity College Dublin who was not involved in the research.

They're just being coy actually. It's already well known, and somewhat of a meme at this point that Facebook can read your mind

King and his colleagues trained a computational tool to detect words and sentences on 56,000 hours of speech recordings from 53 languages. The tool, also known as a language model, learned how to recognize specific features of language both at a fine-grained level — think letters or syllables — and at a broader level, such as a word or sentence.
The team applied an AI with this language model to databases from four institutions that included brain activity from 169 volunteers. In these databases, participants listened to various stories and sentences from, for example, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea and Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland while the people’s brains were scanned using either magnetoencephalography or electroencephalography. Those techniques measure the magnetic or electrical component of brain signals.

This all just seems like drip conditioning the public for when they try to plug us into the matrix.

Heck. Why even plug in? The system is already wireless

I hope Keanu takes down Meta soon

a reply to: dashen

Not everybody's brain works the same way, people with brain trauma, people that are of different ethnic groups etc may have very small differences or even in some cases use opposite hemispheres and then there are people that are multilingual that may be thinking in one language and speaking in another (though they usually think in the language they are going to speak), all of these factors may mean that this technology would only really work well with base type test subjects and once rolled out would be buggy as hell.

And it is not a nice thought that machines are getting ever closer to being able to read your mind, cue the thought police and even human programming (State sanctioned brainwashing for so called ethical reasons at first such as rehabilitating criminals etc and curing some mental conditions?) that will be used to align people and make them good little serfs under the control of there masters.

Of course there is potential good application, someone whom can not speak suddenly being able to speak through a machine for example and it is also a doorway to cybernetic prosthetics like the science fictional body parts of the bionic man made real.

But as we all see the dangers here we all know that this will be abused.

Of course if a corporation is now doing this and black budget military research may be ahead of that it is possible some variant already exists in the hands of covert agency's, how do you know you are not being controlled every time you go to vote?.