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The Times Tech Podcast

Precision Neuroscience's Ben Rapoport: "Write an email with your thoughts"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ben Rapoport to talk about his plan it implant his first brain-computer interface in a human this year (5:00), his background in neurosurgery and electrical engineering (10:30), why BCI’s are ready now (13:30), Precision’s approach (16:45), preventing the device being rejected by the body (23:15), what this device will allow (24:45), restoring sense of touch to paralyzed people (32:55), exoskeletons (32:45), his time at Elon Musk’s Neuralink (41:00), and the dawning age of brain computer interfaces (44:00).

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0:00.0

Yo, technology. What is it all about?

0:04.5

It comes from recording high bandwidth input from the brain, software that decodes that, and converts it into actions.

0:12.9

Moving a mouse or writing an email.

0:14.5

Moving a mouse, moving a cursor, and there will, for sure, be a next generation of the technology that closes the loop, so to speak,

0:23.3

and allows patients and users not just to have the visual output of what happens on the screen,

0:29.3

for example, as the feedback, but in a more intuitive way to have touch and visual and auditory feedback.

0:50.5

... to have touch and visual and auditory feedback. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley,

0:53.0

your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

0:57.3

How are you all doing?

0:58.8

We have a fabulous, fabulous show for you this week.

1:01.5

We're going to take a little detour away from AI this week.

1:05.4

But worry not.

1:06.6

We have some amazing AI folks already in the pipeline, already in the can, as they say.

1:12.5

So that'll be coming, you know, the weeks to come.

1:15.0

So just trust me on that.

1:16.4

But this week, we're talking proper science fiction.

1:20.7

Not this AI stuff.

1:22.3

Real science fiction stuff.

1:23.9

Brain computer interfaces.

1:26.7

You know, chips that you put in the brain that translate your

1:32.0

thoughts alone to actions from writing an email or moving a cursor, even driving a car.

1:38.0

Long time listeners will know that I'm just fascinated with this technology.

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