Dr. Steven (Steve) Novella

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

This is a fairly significant advance. matched

Yeah, you know, it's worth mentioning. matched

So they said the raw accuracy was 94.1%. matched

But if they just added autocorrect, it was 99% accurate. matched

Just for the general purpose of autocorrect. matched

Yeah, 99%. matched

That's pretty good. matched

Yeah, so a couple of things here just to put it into perspective. matched

This is great, but they're specifically trying to look for things that are going to be easy to do, right? matched

One thing to note is that this is intracortical electrodes, not scalp surface or external electrodes. matched

It's touching the brain. matched

Yes, that gives the greatest fidelity, you know, discrimination. matched

It's always a tradeoff between, as you say, Jay, invasiveness versus the quality of the information you're getting. matched

So here they're doing like a maximally invasive procedure in order to get the best quality possible. matched

That has higher risks, of course. matched

The longevity of the electrodes may be fairly short, a couple of years or something like that. matched

Yeah, although we do that routinely now, cutting into the brain. matched

It's not as big a deal as it sounds like. matched

But yes, it's a risk. matched

There's no zero risk. matched

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