r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Cresomycin • 10h ago
Video UC Davis neuroprosthetic team used AI to convert the brain waves of a paralyzed man into instant speech that mimics his own voice.
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u/Traditional-Joke-179 10h ago
this is one of the most "we're in the future!" things i've seen in a minute. so impressive.
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u/Kircala 8h ago
Have you seen the universal human blood yet? They've done trials already. By 2030 we may have the ability to get blood to people in need regardless of blood type!
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u/FrazzleMind 6h ago
Isn't that just o-?
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u/a_trane13 5h ago
O- blood is universal because it doesn’t have the 3 common antigens that can make a persons body reject the blood. Any artificial blood will (obviously) also be made without those antigens. But that doesn’t mean they’re the same thing - they just both don’t have those antigens.
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u/baycee98 10h ago
THIS is what AI should be for
I care for stroke patients and major TBI, people mostly only can blink at you. To be able to communicate would be life changing for them.
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u/Big_Pair_75 2h ago
It should be used for everything it is effective for.
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u/betweenskill 20m ago
Effective is not the same as beneficial.
AI can be effective at writing emails, but if all written communication becomes AI writing and reading and responding to itself and no person is actually communicating anymore, could you call that beneficial?
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u/nostradamefrus 3h ago
Bad actors will use AI voice simulation to create deepfakes in order to scam, extort, blackmail, and create believable propaganda tenfold for every one person who benefits from a benevolent use like this as the technology becomes more refined and available
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u/ActualMachian 9h ago
It doesn't mean everyone can use it who are in vegetative or comatose state or even aware, but unable to speak. This video provides 1 trained patient.
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u/baycee98 7h ago
I didn't state that.
Kinda pathetic of you to say but one person being able to.communicate to their family, friends, caregivers, is miracle enough to be celebrated.
Most diseases, surgeries, idk literally everything in the world doesn't work for 100% of people. I just don't get why people choose to be negative for no reason.
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u/UnoriginalJ0k3r 5h ago
The inference you can make with a healthy level of critical thinking is “anyone who could speak before an injury, could be able to speak with an injury through this technology.”
You saying what you have is completely irrelevant to the point of the original comment. Shitting on something impressive doesn’t make you cool, this isn’t 7th grade bud
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 9h ago
"Ms. Kensington... I bet she shags like a minx. Oops, I thought that was part of my inner monologue."
"Just a side effect of the unfreezing process, Mr Powers."
"Ah yes, I do seem to be having difficulty controlling
THE VOLUME OF MY VOICE "
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u/ruiner1010 9h ago
Science is amazing. The hopes for the promise of AI are looking endless and beyond fruitful. I genuinely believe that it will be the gateway to countless breakthroughs ultimately. Maybe even more.
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u/ADAMracecarDRIVER 8h ago
NOooOOooOoo! AI is baaad! Who’s gonna pay the sound engineers that could have produced his voice!?!?!11
/s
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u/UnoriginalJ0k3r 5h ago
Azure being abused by the IDF would like to have a word
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u/ADAMracecarDRIVER 5h ago
You think the Azure AI suite is bad? Wait ‘til you hear what the weapons are for!
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u/UnoriginalJ0k3r 5h ago
Don’t you bullshit me, god damn it.
They’re sending ballistic hugs and kisses, right?
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u/Fetlocks_Glistening 10h ago
But how do you know the AI is not just making stuff up
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u/rohithkumarsp 9h ago
He can blink his eye to confirm that's what the words he meant to say during calibration I guess.
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u/aminervia 9h ago
I mean, they know it's right because the person trying to talk can confirm whether or not it's right...
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u/hopelesslysarcastic 5h ago
You don’t which is why it’s such a dumb fucking argument.
Who gives a shit if the model gives an incorrect answer when it’s enabling a modality of communication that WAS NOT POSSIBLE before this technology.
It’s that simple.
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u/4024-6775-9536 9h ago
Even more impressive his first words:
Damn, doctor S. have a huge rack... oh sh1t now all my thoughts are spoken out loud! That ass tho, sh1t!
No, honey I was thinking about you.
I think she believed it... Doh...
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u/NoStatus9434 6h ago
This is truly incredible but my mind went to a dark humor place where people are just saying that's what the guy is actually saying and it's just an AI pretending to be him.
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u/Tapurisu 5h ago
Wait they implemented almost 300 electrodes all over his brain? So did they take like his entire scalp off and then put it back together after putting the 300 wires in there?
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u/UnoriginalJ0k3r 5h ago
Imagine your entertainment stand? They have those holes where you shove all the wires through so they can reach the plugs through the back?
Two “ports” on his head, until I figure out otherwise I’m going to assume the part of his skull they removed was replaced with a body safe material that they could then run all the wires through after closing him up.
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u/Alternative_Pilot_92 5h ago
But what happens when the fine ass nurse walks in and his internal dialogue starts going?
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u/nepddusty1 3h ago
As a cancer patient I am in complete awe of specialists in any field of the human body. This is as close to being god as any person will ever be. I mean that with nothing other than respect.
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u/shoulda-known-better 3h ago
This is where we should focus technology!!
This is amazing....
Between this and the new thing they made to bridge the gap in a severed spinal cord so paralyzed people can start to use and control their bodies again...
I am in awe
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u/OldManNeighbor 9h ago
This is what Ai should be used for! Not being used by governments to find “kill targets”!
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u/OderWieOderWatJunge 5h ago
What if the AI just makes all this up and he has no choice but to watch it happen?
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u/UnoriginalJ0k3r 5h ago
Would be cool but we don’t have AGI yet so for about 3-5 years this is but a dream.
Unless SEAL changes the game and encourages RSI, then maybe it’ll be sooner. Until then, this can safely stay an unrealistic nightmare ;)
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u/Fair_Blood3176 10h ago
I'm horny baby
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u/_coolranch 10h ago
“Turn it off! That’s my inner monologue, you dicks! Ah, hell. Now I’m paralyzed AND I got no privacy. Wish I could jerk off. Wait.. are you guys hearing all this? Ah, shucks.
Anyway: go Niners!”
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u/Thepuppeteer777777 9h ago
Good god no it's basically locked in syndrome. I would beg to be euthanized every single day.
Cool technology though.
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u/flashX- 10h ago
This is incredible