The mind-reading potential of AI | Chin-Teng Lin

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🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Scientists are getting closer to giving humans the power to communicate with their thoughts alone. In a live demo, researcher Chin-Teng Lin shows how brain-computer interfaces can translate a person's neural signals into text on a computer, potentially opening up a new realm of communication that turns silent thought into words.

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1:08.6	You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
1:14.5	I'm your host, Elise Hu.
1:16.4	Scientists are getting closer and closer to giving the powers of telepathy to humans thanks to brain computer interfaces.
1:24.4	In his 2024 talk, researcher Chin Tang Lin shows us an EEG headset that can turn silent thought into words with rather remarkable accuracy.
1:36.2	Check it out.
1:39.7	How often are you frustrated by the time it takes to accurately get things in your mind into a computer?
1:51.0	It is even worse for people like me, whose first language is not based on latest.
2:00.0	I live and work in Australia, but I am originally from Taiwan.
2:07.6	I moved to Sini eight years ago and now Ruan and university research centered there.
2:26.1	Most of us use keyboard every day to get things in our mind into the computer.
2:28.7	We have to learn to type.
2:38.0	The fact that you have to learn to do something shows how unnatural it is. The finger-dreamen touch screen has been around for 60 years.
2:45.0	It's convenient, but is also slow.
2:49.0	There are other ways to control the computers, joystick or judges.
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