A model of artificial intelligence developed by the University of Technology Sydney, who have renamed the studio BrainGPT, allows you to read thoughts, translating the brain waves read by a “helmet” into words. This tool promises to help people with communication disabilities due to illness or injury. And it promises a new way to interact with computers.
BrainGPT reads thoughts with a “helmet” thanks to AI
Presented at the annual conference NeurIPSas Wired explains, this system is portable and non invasiverepresents a turning point in the field of brain-computer interfaces.
In recent times, several technologies have attempted to translate the brain waves in text, but often required invasive surgical procedures (like Elon Musk’s Neuralink). The new device, however, uses a helmet EEG connected to a computer.
The software DeWavetrained on 29 volunteers, learned how to correlate specific EEG signals to words and sentences while they silently read a text. This system can detect signals when a user thinks of words without speaking them.
Currently, the accuracy of the device stands around 40% according to the Bleu scale, and’accuracy indicator for automatically translated text. However, the research team aims to achieve an accuracy level of 90% and is committed to perfecting the technology.
The study’s author, CT Lin, said this research represents a significant step in the direct translation of EEG waves into written language, introducing an innovative approach to neural decoding. And he knows it without implanting chips in the brain and without risks: something that could help several people with communication disabilities. And, perhaps, one day we will all be able to communicate directly with computers via our brain waves.