This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI
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Summary
Last November Elon Musk’s company Neuralink implanted an ALS sufferer named Bradford G. Smith with a chip which enabled him to communicate by thinking, using a virtual keyboard; in turn, Smith became the first person to unveil the progress he was making via an AI chatbot called Grok, also created by Musk, which drafted some of his posts.
Now questions are being asked about authenticity, with some suspecting that Musk was the real author of some posts made on the social media platform X, and not Smith.
The scenario highlights the bigger issue of where AI ends and human thinking begins as neural implants and AI merge.
Smith says he is now looking for someone to create a more personal large language model that “trains on my past writing and answers with my opinions and style”.