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A proof-of-concept neural brain implant providing speech

(arstechnica.com)
120 points LorenDB | 4 comments | 29 Jun 25 12:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.816s | source
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pingou ◴[02 Jul 25 09:44 UTC] No.44441760[source]▶
Telepathy is on its way. Next step they just skip the conversion of brain signals to words and just directly send the signals to another brain. But I think some conversion/translation would still be necessary.
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msgodel ◴[02 Jul 25 09:57 UTC] No.44441825[source]▶
You could skip a lot of stuff by training a transformer on some kind of neural embeddings. You probably get effective FTL communication and limited immortality that way.
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falcor84 ◴[02 Jul 25 10:14 UTC] No.44441934[source]▶
How did you arrive at FTL? At best we'll have comms at radio transmission speed, right?
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1. msgodel ◴[02 Jul 25 10:36 UTC] No.44442053[source]▶
It's faster than light because your model is already there so no information has to be exchanged.
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2. throwaway34564 ◴[02 Jul 25 13:19 UTC] No.44443371[source]▶
very cool concept - kind of like an offline inference model of your conscious. You could have periodic (over the wire) sync updates to your real self
3. falcor84 ◴[02 Jul 25 15:13 UTC] No.44444739[source]▶
But isn't it the same sort of FTL and "immortality" that a creator gets from us listening to a downloaded podcast that they prerecorded?

To quote Woody Allen:

> “I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”

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4. msgodel ◴[02 Jul 25 18:04 UTC] No.44446900[source]▶
Seems like a technicality tbh.