World’s top social networking site, Facebook is now inching closer to their ambitious vision of brain-reading computer. They have also shared about it on its F8 2017 developer conference. Here, the team said that they have achieved great progress in their brain-reading computer and also published the results of this successful experiment. The researchers of Facebook Reality Labs-backed University of California, San Francisco (USFC) said that real-time decoding of human speech from the human brain onto the computer screen is possible now.
They have tested it on the three epileptic patients. The electrodes were planted into their brains. Researchers spend their whole year to test this technology and they succeeded in it as well.
The target of real-time decoding of 100 words per minute…
According to the study published in the journal named Nature Communications, USFC researchers shared the major information about their Computer Interface (BCI). The study titled ‘Nature Communications Aside’, researchers said that currently BCI can decode only a small set of text and aiming to achieve more vocabularies with the low error rates. They have set a target of reaching the target of real-time decoding of 100 words per minute with less than 17% word error rate 1000 word vocabulary.
USFC also said that the findings could help them in developing a communication device for the patients who can’ speak due to their severe brain injuries like brainstem stroke and spinal cord injury.
However, these successful trials of Facebook are more likely to be proved relevant in developing augmented reality glasses.
“We don’t expect this system to solve the problem of input for AR anytime soon. It’s currently bulky, slow, and unreliable. But the potential is significant, so we believe it’s worthwhile to keep improving this state-of-the-art technology over time. And while measuring oxygenation may never allow us to decode imagined sentences, being able to recognize even a handful of imagined commands, like “home,” “select,” and “delete,” would provide entirely new ways of interacting with today’s VR systems — and tomorrow’s AR glasses,” said USFC researchers in a blog post.
“Today we’re sharing an update on our work to build a non-invasive wearable device that lets people type just by imagining what they want to say. Our progress shows real potential in how future inputs and interactions with AR glasses could one day look” Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, Facebook vice president of AR/VR tweeted on 30th July 2019.
Today we’re sharing an update on our work to build a non-invasive wearable device that lets people type just by imagining what they want to say. Our progress shows real potential in how future inputs and interactions with AR glasses could one day look. https://t.co/ilk192GwAR
— Boz (@boztank) July 30, 2019
“Brain-On-Chip” from Neuralink
If you are thinking that Facebook is a single organisation who has taken its step to building a brain-computer interface. Before July, Elon Musk founder of Neuralink revealed a “brain-on-chip”. ” It can read, transmit high-volume data and even amplify signals from the brain.
“This has the potential to solve several brain-related diseases. The idea is to understand and treat brain disorders, preserve and enhance your own brain and create a well-aligned future,” Musk said.
The human trials of brain-on-chip are remaining and expected to begin in 2020.
