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The company's research into a consumer mind-reading device is over, for now. In Chile, legislators are even considering a human rights bill to protect brain data, free will, and mental privacy from tech companies. Still, Marc Slutzky, a professor at Northwestern, says the UCSF project is an “impressive next step” that demonstrates both remarkable possibilities and some limits of the brain-reading science. Project Steno was a multi-year collaboration between Facebook and the University of California San Francisco’s Chang Lab, aiming to create a system that translates brain activity into words.
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The company's research into a consumer mind-reading device is over, for now. In their report, Chang’s group says with the electrodes on the surface of his brain, Bravo-1 has been able to form sentences on a computer at a rate of about 15 words per minute. Even with recent improvements, including some by Facebook, they are not able to pick up neural signals with enough resolution.
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In a Wednesday blog post , Facebook announced that it’s abandoning plans to develop a brain-computer interface headset designed to convert neural signals into spoken words.
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Facebook Reality Labs is sunsetting its research toward head-mounted thought reading, instead focusing on a wrist-based device.
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A Facebook-backed initiative aiming to let people type by thinking has concluded with new findings published today. A new research paper, published in The New England Journal of Medicine , shows potential for implementing the technology for people with speech impairments.