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Sidebean — This AI reads your brain literally | Sidebean. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
This new Japanese company published a paper on a new technology that allows an AI to turn brain activity into full sentence captions for people who have disabilities and communication issues and so on. I was happy to see that there's medical uses. Like you said, it's like stroke victims, people that can't communicate, which I'm all for. Of course, what a gift that would be, you know, paranoia tells me this could be a new, you know, TSA thought police situation or something. You're just walking along and there's weed in my backpack. Fuck. You know, does that just mean they're like completely unfiltered? Like ever since Greg had a stroke, he's been a real asshole. Is there really going to be like living in the movie Liar Liar?
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