Facebook on Wednesday told its F8 conference audience about two new cutting-edge projects that could change the way humans engage with devices. Over the next two years, the company will work on a new technology that will allow anyone to type around 100 words per minute — not with fingers, but using a process that would decode neural activity devoted to speech. What Facebook envisions is a technology that would resemble a neural network, allowing users to share thoughts the way they share photos today.
I'd read/heard about this kind of research going on for eons. To hear it announced to the unwashed masses in this moronically positive light was troublesome. Zucky meets with PRC despots to work out censorship of citizens' political expression.. met with a yawn? #YouWontFindMEonFacebook, to quote stallman.org !! I type almost as fast as I can think (#hireme, btw) and it's time we teach kids 10-finger touch typing early (like I was taught) instead of what we see now: generations, already, of learned dependence on megaconglomerate corporations that present intrusive affronts to privacy which kids don't question since they're simultaneously steeped in fame-worship. Watch some Eben Moglen talks, folks. Check my twitter feed too.
I think that brain to computer interfaces (BCI) are inevitable. Two things though: 1. Remember when voice recognition became available? It was not that awesome, but now it is awesome. I think think BCI will suffer the same evolution. 2. I think I would prefer a completely external device (if possible) to "read my brain." I don't like anything close to my eyes, my brain is that same phenomenon, times 1000!
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Facebook’s Latest Moon Shot: I Think, Therefore I Type
Posted by: Peter Suciu April 21, 2017 05:00 AMFacebook on Wednesday told its F8 conference audience about two new cutting-edge projects that could change the way humans engage with devices. Over the next two years, the company will work on a new technology that will allow anyone to type around 100 words per minute — not with fingers, but using a process that would decode neural activity devoted to speech. What Facebook envisions is a technology that would resemble a neural network, allowing users to share thoughts the way they share photos today.