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Repairing humans with brain implants

January 19, 2025

By Nicolas Gutierrez C. THE Reading 6 min. Subscribers

Recent advances in artificial intelligence make it possible to decode the speech of people with disabilities equipped with neural implants with increasing precision. These new interfaces take into account the user's intention and even adapt to the context.

Brain-machine interface

The brain-machine interface of researchers at the University of California in San Francisco (United States) translates the electrical signals emitted in the brain areas of the patient at an average speed of 78 words per minute, then read by an avatar.

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This article is taken from the monthly Sciences et Avenir n°935, dated January 2025.

AI in your head. This is the crazy dream of billionaire Elon Musk, who is counting on his intelligent implant Neuralink to survive the threat of these same AIs… Rest assured, we are not there at all. Omnipotent artificial intelligences like Skynet in Terminator have not yet seen the light of day. And we do not understand the human brain well enough to claim to merge our minds with a computer. However, there are more and more brain implants that integrate artificial intelligence, but for a very different purpose: to repair the human body.

Brain implant Language model Neuralink

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