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October 24, 2019 01:30 am

AI Allows Paralyzed Person To 'Handwrite' With His Mind

sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: By harnessing the power of imagination, researchers have nearly doubled the speed at which completely paralyzed patients may be able to communicate with the outside world. In the new experiments, a volunteer paralyzed from the neck down instead imagined moving his arm to write each letter of the alphabet. That brain activity helped train a computer model known as a neural network to interpret the commands, tracing the intended trajectory of his imagined pen tip to create letters. Eventually, the computer could read out the volunteer's imagined sentences with roughly 95% accuracy at a speed of about 66 characters per minute -- twice the previous record.

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