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Of all the wild new technological advances making headlines these days,

some of the most incredible, hard to believe,

straight out of sci-fi have to do with BCIs,

or brain computer interfaces.

Ooh boy, yeah, with AI and large language models and neural networks making such huge leaps.

The massively complicated piles of data scientists gather from our brains is starting to actually make sense.

And we've talked a lot about these brain computer interfaces on past shows.

Scientists have implanted sensors on the surface of the brain and the results have been amazing.

One patient, for example, who was paralyzed from a spinal injury, was able to open and close a

prosthetic hand and control a robotic arm.

Oh, right. The interface basically read his mind.

It assessed his motor impulses and put them into action in the prosthetic arm.

Exactly.

And another patient with ALS, a motor neuron disease that left him unable to speak, was

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