There's new hope for people who have lost their ability to speak.
,"how different conducting everyday activities like shopping, attending appointments, ordering food, going into a bank, talking on a phone, expressing love or appreciation – even arguing – will be when nonverbal people can communicate their thoughts in real time."
Both teams employed a similar methodology. Electrode arrays were implanted into each patient's brain – 128 electrodes in Bennett's and 253 in Ann's. Ann's repertoire consisted of 1,024 words, but she also thought about making facial expressions. In addition, the AI was trained, not to recognize the words, but phonemes – the basic sound units that make up words. This dramatically reduced the number of units the AI needed to comprehend.
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