Meta has an AI for brain typing, but it’s stuck in the lab
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Summary
Meta has developed a brain-reading system that can determine what letter a skilled typist has pressed as much as 80% of the time, according to research published on arXiv.
Though the technology is not mature enough for commercial use, Meta believes that neuroscience is an important pathway to creating more powerful AI that learns and reasons like humans.
The system uses a magnetoencephalography (MEG) scanner to collect magnetic activity produced by the cortex as brain neurons fire.
Although MEG is not viable for patient use, it can scan the whole brain at once, providing useful insights into how language production works in the brain, which could be used to improve AI language models.