Bob Novella

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #827 - May 15 2021 podcast

So we now know that fine motor trajectories, you might want to look that up, can successfully be detected and decoded from neocortical activity. voice-verified

So basically what they're saying here is that they can pick up fine motor movements in the brain. voice-verified

Your brain is telling a limb to do something. voice-verified

They can pick that up and they can decode it. voice-verified

So the researchers are confident that this will work on other people. voice-verified

There really is no reason for them to think otherwise. voice-verified

Now they're planning to test this system on a person who cannot move at all, like that is locked in. voice-verified

They can't move their body, can't speak, which would be incredible for that person if you think about it. voice-verified

All of a sudden, that person will be able to communicate. voice-verified

Well, I shouldn't say all of a sudden because there's quite a bit that they have to do to prepare the patient. voice-verified

But this is incredibly early in this technology. voice-verified

Like I said, millions of people around the world are disabled and have a reason to want to use machines like this. voice-verified

The researchers are also interested in decoding speech, which I thought was incredible because speech is way more complicated. voice-verified

It's harder to decode. voice-verified

The accuracy will be much more difficult to get to a reasonable level. voice-verified

And also the size of the spoken vocabulary and how fast people speak is a factor as voice-verified

But, you know, again, I still think it's on the spectrum of doable here with what they were able to achieve with this existing experiment. voice-verified

The researchers hope that the technology will also be available to the public within years and not decades, which is amazing. voice-verified

You know, we're not hearing 5 to 10 or 10 to 20. voice-verified

We're hearing, you know, maybe a handful of years before they could start rolling this out to certain people. voice-verified

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