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[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 10:45 +1000, David wrote:
> On Sunday, 4 August 2019 11:40:47 AEST Karl Auer wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I can't imagine thought commands being better fidelity.
> > You know better than to use the argument from personal incredulity
> > :-)
> [...]the device picked up nerve signals from speech muscules
> [...] 
> This is a vastly different proposition to decoding thoughts.

Well - yes and no. And you still need to decode the speech.

> I think that identifying a concept from brain activity before it's
> been verbalised is science-fiction stuff.

Look around - thousands of things that we take for granted in our daily
lives were once "science fiction stuff".

I've no idea whether it will ever work well enough that I can think
"Hal, make me a coffee" and expect to see a nice cuppa appear before
me, but I would say that current work is very promising.

Regards, K.

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