The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is
To me this title reads more like a capitalistic celebration of potential labor from an otherwise un-exploitable workforce, instead of a celebration of a major breakthrough in giving some semblance of dignity and autonomy to a person who was robbed of it by this terrible affliction.
Yeah, this is fucked up but also neat? I mean, now social security can deny someone with something as debilitating as ALS and tell him to get an implant and go to work??? 😳
So brainrotten, is not an efficient use of acquiring new labour. Work can give people a sense of purpose, this guys job is climate activism so im sure he feels very happy to be able to go back to work.
To me this title reads more like a capitalistic celebration of potential labor from an otherwise un-exploitable workforce, instead of a celebration of a major breakthrough in giving some semblance of dignity and autonomy to a person who was robbed of it by this terrible affliction.
Yeah, the presentation is a tad dystopian.
Still an eminently cool breakthrough, though I’ve read that BCI’s are hackable and that notion sounds pretty scary.
Yeah, this is fucked up but also neat? I mean, now social security can deny someone with something as debilitating as ALS and tell him to get an implant and go to work??? 😳
So brainrotten, is not an efficient use of acquiring new labour. Work can give people a sense of purpose, this guys job is climate activism so im sure he feels very happy to be able to go back to work.