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A proof-of-concept neural brain implant providing speech

(arstechnica.com)
120 points LorenDB | 1 comments | 29 Jun 25 12:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.245s | 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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Cthulhu_ ◴[02 Jul 25 09:53 UTC] No.44441799[source]▶
I think (futurology / science fiction) that they will make some kind of brain link, but there won't be any translations happening in between, just raw brain signals from one to the other, like an extra sensory input; there won't be any encoding or data that can be translated to speech or images, but the connected brains will be able to learn to comprehend and send the signals to / from each other and learn to communicate that way.
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1. lambdaone ◴[02 Jul 25 18:42 UTC] No.44447353[source]▶
There would probably be a Universal Common Embedding used as an intermediate representation between people's individual private neural representations. Likely the distant descendant of our open-source neural models.

And machines would of course also use the Universal Common Embedding to communicate, as man and machine meld into a seamless distributed whole.

It all seems a little bit too inevitable for my liking at this point.