AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job
2026-06-16 19:36 UTC
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@justaman123@lemmy.world 2026-06-17 03:08
I mean he’s a pretty cool guy, he does organizing and strategy work for campaigns of people who fight climate change and he’s a climate activist. He’s obviously been afflicted with a terrible illness, but he’s also got some things going for him, despite his families insistence they don’t have generational wealth he did go to Duke so there’s still a good deal of privilege in this claim. From all accounts it seems he’s fighting the good fight. So it’s a pretty cool thing that’s happened but it’s definitely gonna eventually open the door to awful things because capitalism is evil.
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@reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca 2026-06-16 19:43
To me this title reads more like a capitalistic celebration of potential labor from an otherwise un-exploitable workforce, instead of a celebration of a major breakthrough in giving some semblance of dignity and autonomy to a person who was robbed of it by this terrible affliction.
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@sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 2026-06-16 20:30
The lab has built its own software platform for operating BCI devices known as Brain-computer interface for Rapidly Adaptive Neural Decoding (BRAND, which Brandman told us was coincidentally named), which UCD postdoctoral fellow Nick Card built machine learning algorithms for. Aah… So not LLMs. Makes sense. Also to the reporter who decided to focus on ‘full time job’ in the title. You focused on 5 hours of work instead of the fact that the patient can now interact with his daughter, who never heard him speak, and also he is able to have conversations with his friends and family. Please be more human.
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@Formfiller@lemmy.world 2026-06-17 05:23
I choose death
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@Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2026-06-17 05:41
8% is the difference between a cool coworker and an asshole