Facebook helped pay for researchers to study whether electrodes placed in the brain could help us learn to 'decode' speech from brainwaves in real time. As it turns out, this is possible.
More than two years ago, Facebook revealed it was working on a project for typing words onto a computer right from your brain, without requiring invasive surgery to make it work.The company has been working with several universities on the effort, including the University of California, San Francisco. Facebook helped pay for UCSF researchers to study whether electrodes placed in the brain could help us learn to"decode" speech from brainwaves in real time.
For the part related to Facebook's interests, researchers had participants listen to questions while tracking their brain activity. Machine-learning algorithms eventually determined how to spot when participants were answering a question and which one of 24 answers they were choosing.A diffuse optical tomography headset that Facebook's brain-computer interface research team is using to study blood oxygenation in the brain.
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