A Brain Implant That Turns Your Thoughts Into Text | Tom Oxley | TED
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- What if you could control digital devices using just the power of thought? That's the incredible promise behind the Stentrode -- an implantable brain-computer interface that collects and wirelessly transmits information directly from the brain, without the need for open surgery. Neurotech entrepreneur Tom Oxley describes the intricacies of this breakthrough technology, which is currently enrolling participants in human trials, as well as how it could help restore dignity to those with disabilities -- and transform the future of communication.
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There will always be someone who’s going to use technology carelessly and for unwise reasons, but tbh this is so inspiring and I believe the benefit will surpass the potential downside… I’m tearing up with the statement “even when my body is failing, I can still say I love you to the loved ones” this is true humanity
No. They are going to make this mandatory in some years from now. For now it's only for the disabled.
They are going to control everyone. Even more than they already do.
Technology is used to extend the range of our senses
That stays!
This could be used as a form of digital therapy where repressed thoughts are not just revealed as text but visualized into metaphorical simulations helping the person deal with their repressed trauma.
I'm tearing up watching this, from imagining how precious this technology would've been for my grandfather. He spent his life in the pulpit as a preacher and community leader. Known for using his oratory gift to help guide others through difficult times. After a nasty stroke, he lost all control and sensation of the entire right side of his body and brain. His frustration with his inability to communicate was the only thing our family never had to decipher.
Look into leonard kille and the macy foundation before you trust this.
Incredible. I hope it will never be used for bad reasons but if course it will...
I won't let it be used for evil.
@@JesusChristDenton_7 Thank you Jesus. ❤ When are you returning though ?
This is absolutely incredible
This talk was absolutely amazing
I've another lecture where the eye direction worked like a mouse and the left and/or closing of the eyes worked like left/right mouse click.
That sounds easier and cheaper to implement than surgery imo.
I remember hearing about Stentrode years ago and thinking it sounded like perhaps the best balance currently in development between fidelity and convenience. Glad to see them making so much progress. Looking forward to more.
Amazing. I'm down for this.
Wow. What a life changing use case scenario for this technology. These people will get a second chance to connect.
It is crazy to me how there is technology that can follow out thoughts and even observe how we think. In the wrong hands this can be dangerous.
IT'S already in the wrong hands they torture me with this BS EVERYDAY 24/7...!!!
Amazing and blessed to be able to find this video !!!
Cool to think we're going to be able to see someone with these conditions be able to write a book, create a podcast, or maybe even run for office with these new technologies. The potential is endless!
"Unfortunately, you have not been authorized to use the administrative keys on this service, your warranty has now been voided and all products will be collected. Please be patient as a quality control enforcer is being dispatched to your location. We thank you for your brain."
@@deshyvin Shxt!
It's exciting, but we need laws in place to prevent government agencies and hackers from being able to exploit this tech for nefarious purposes.
“Going” to?
Oh look another world economic forum member promoting the 2030 agenda where they say you will own nothing and be happy wake up people!
Great work.
This has "Black Mirror Episode" written all over it.
marvel intro'd the idea before though
The only diffrence is, we get to write our own stories
@@Estiaan like leonard kille did?
Josiah Macy jr foundation wants you to delete this comment.
Movies are predictive programming.
The growth and development of the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) has been incredible over the years.
It’s so reliving to know that health conditions that shut people off from the world of fun and social media have become less debilitating all thanks to BCI.
Keep working effortlessly to make the world a better place through BCI. Great presentation 👏
Amazing work tom!!! :)
Incredible progress
So wonderful.
Great thanks for sharing 👍
Beautiful TED
I love this technology, it could also improve our future as humans. We should make reacheble for most of people who have disabilities.
Amazing to see how they try to implement a BCI
This might as well have been a TED talk about nuralink though. I wonder how they'll compete 😲
Thank you, I really appreciate your achievement. I trust you but hardly trust what my eyes see in your presentation. congratulation.
idk why this makes me want to cry.. in a good way
Amazing
Really amazing idea, hope it will become available for everyone that is so unfortunate to need this to communicate and feel human again. I can fortunately use my eyes still which is a little faster.
I think I will just let Jesus be in charge of me. If It's my time it's my time
i honestly was thinking this last night.talking is exhasting, my mouth cannot keep up.
impressed with the amount of ppl who seem to believe the thingy reads your thoghts.... watch 1:29 and 9:12, the device captures when the brain tells a body part to move (9:12), and that is understood by the device as a command to click, so the person has to "spell" everything they wanna say on a virtual keyboard like the one at 1:29 and 1:54
@@Power_to_the_people567 I think he is saying that many people assume if you think words they will show up on a screen. That does not appear to be close to how it works. If the poster is correct it will still take large amounts of effort but it helps bring so much freedom...just not as conveniently as assumed.
@@Power_to_the_people567 That isn't reading thoughts, it is literally detecting eye movements. If you are creeped out by that, look up what different tech companies already use your camera for.
JUSTICE FOR LEONARD KILLE
What do you think Macy foundation and HumAI are working on this for? Funny how the cia wont declassify anything about cybernetics even after 70 years.
It doesnt do anything now. But 10 years after ''updates'' it will do anything they want
“I don’t think this would be a good idea” - My thoughts
Rather not share all my thoughts hahahaha
"Unfortunately, you have not been authorized to use the administrative keys on this service, your warranty has now been voided and all products will be collected. Please be patient as a quality control enforcer is being dispatched to your location. We thank you for your brain."
There is a dark side to that technology that cannot be ignored. What triggered me was the part near the end where Tom is talking about sharing feelings. That means not only are you sensing - reading the emotions, the plan is to induce them too. THAT is the game changer that takes this device from medical aid to terrifying mind / behavior control. This device is implanted and wireless.... Considering just how bad the state of computer security is, and how things are getting worse not better, the risk is way WAY too great. What could possibly go wrong with a device like that? Imagine going to the voting booth and as you are about to check that box, a wave of fear grabs you and you change your vote. Or worse, used by nefarious groups to enslave people by inducing fear, pain, love for certain behaviors. History teaches us that people will misuse technology like this for the absolute worst possible reasons. This technology is in its infancy. We went from the Wright brothers first flight with fabric and sticks to a moon landing in less than 70 years. I give this technology less than 10 to be horribly abused.
Agree with you. I try to live my life without overthinking but when I think about the world to come it's really terrifying. We are going to a totally controled world for democracy's sake. Democracy...
Like we say in French "qui vivra verra" (something like "time will tell").
A friend of mine said "if a technology becomes public it meand that the government/the army is already using it".
When he spoke about feelings, he made it clear that this apparatus is not for people with disabilities but rather for all people.
It's a sales pitch of something wonderful or who buy something that's going to be harmful? Goes back to Genesis and the garden of Eden. It is written...
"The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it." (Genesis 3:6)
This tech will lead to the "Mark of the Beast." (Revelation 13).
It's a scary devise but I still don't get the plan to convince the general public other than to fix ailments and have better memory. That's most of the American population sadly because most of the general population is sick.
a big help for people with cerebral palsy too
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i always wanted development in that field and now it is happening
On off keying with binary switches and sampling is a slow process.. can I plug it in to my CB radio to do Cw?
When will this be available for ALS patients and how do we enroll for clinical trials?
This is all amazing stuff. The future of the human race is very Xsighting to me. Hope one day my consciousness can be recorded. I would love to be able to Thought to TeXt. Very positive things. Mr.X
Brilliant presentation, Tom, thank you for this incredible work 😃 I believe Docs that work on NeuroScience are doing some of the most profoundly important work imaginable & this technique of going through the blood veins is awe-inspiring 🙏🏽
Im sure leonard kille wouldnt agree with you.
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Instead of using pre-existing signals new signals should be created, that way there is no overlap if there are people that have some things disabled and some enabled.
WOW. Truly amazing stuff guys, keep up the great work, imagine the next 10-20yrs, lets all band together and fix some of these problems ♥🧠
Could they make a cap for the head that would do the same thing? Could it be used to help someone in a coma to express they are still there?
i like this idea
Yeah , I love you all!
Great,
Ty 4 this vid & this tech, theyre both amazin! Its just incredibly sad that stephen hawking died b4 this tech (& other adv bionics) were released.
What happens if they start getting used carelessly and implant in people without them knowing how would they be able to detect if they were implanted and who would keep these from being used in a bad way
This is amazing, when it's used the right way like this
Very Nice 👌👌👌
This technology is wonderful and how thankful disabled people must be. But the sound bodied are able to learn and cultivate this internal use of language as a natural progression - from speech , through writing, to imaging or visualising words in the brain. The energy resource: the dynamic in the meaning of words: (expressed in speech and writing ) is retained internally, augmenting intention.
Seeing this makes me surely hope, that my dream of having some headgear that's linked to a computer with a special program that can make movies and everything directly from my mind. I basicly think about what i want, and the program just takes this picture from my brain and makes a movie with it.
We already have that in infancy like back in early 2000s.. The problem is not much people care to invest in this tech so we do not have much movement. IT just takes one person to come up with more creative idea.s Could be you.
Truly amazing
advertising company: NICE!!
I haven't watched this video yet. This is the first video I'm watching to see about using your mind to text notes. The reason is because I had a thought about something and wanted to look it up. By the time I opened Google, I forgot what I wanted to look up. But if my thoughts were sent to my device in text, I could have we t back a d remembered what I wanted to look up. Also it would have to be affordable lol.
really don't want to directly tweet from my brain.
Awesome!...but it freaks me out how easily this can be weaponized....the more i think about it..the more i feel we need to understand us more as a species & work to build in safeguards in whatever technology or innovation that we come up with...it should be part of the 'design' or 'infrastructure' rather than an after thought, not because i am a pessimist with a reticence to change but because i am a realist who sees the value of anthropology & the lessons it teaches us about us.
Trust your instincts. This can and definitely will be weaponised if implemented on a massive scale. Because that has been done with every new technology in human history.
Or your just an average human that reacts with one’s environment. And if you’ve been on the news you’ll see the violence all around the world lately, more bad then good. A thought to weaponizing something is normal in this time of age
@@g.y.p.s.y. I was about to say the very same think. And yes your Absolutely right.its just in human nature to be like this.
Is human nature perfect? No. Therefore, improvements are to be welcomed. - Deus Ex Invisible War
It's being weaponized on many of US EVERY SINGLE DAY.
This is a wonderful technology for folks with disabilities, of course. This kind of tech would never get developed were it not for the ambition to grant them dignity and ease. Still - we MUST remain skeptical of widespread use of technologies like these. "Throwing" your emotions to someone else for a moment sounds like the basis for peace on earth, but I like to think about what would happen alongside that mainstream adoption. Even if only 2,500 surgeons can perform the operation necessary to install it today, who is to say that celebrities and the rich adopting this tech wouldn't cause overwhelming demand for more surgeons? And if that happened, the pressure for the public to adopt it would skyrocket just like it has for smartphones - everyone's gotta have one. Our data already gets sold without our consent to the highest bidders and used to manipulate us today. Giving them even deeper access into our psychologies would be catastrophic for humanity.
Completely agree.
Pretty sure that figure was for Utah array surgery. This is a much simpler less invasive and demanding procedure.
Thank you for writing that out. This is any marketer's wettest dream.
This man is going to get a Nobel Prize for medicine, and Graham is a bonafide astronaut of science. Astonishing.
I remember this Black Mirror Episode...
I need that in the future!
Crazy comments on here about mind control and mind reading. This is not meant to diminish the awesomeness of the device, but it's simply an interface. It would be like suggesting you could read my mind if you hacked my mouse. You might be able to make my mouse act wonky but you wouldn't know what I was thinking.
Imagine how much faster Stephen Hawking can roast people
There are people who are highly connected to other humans and can actually know and feel how another is feeling without this in your vessels or brain. Untapped with others and feelings of another.
They certainly put a lot of effort into technology. Image if they worked as hard on peace love and understanding. Hopefully I will die before they force these things on us.
Amazing tech that can help so many people however expressing emotion and learning how to should not need to be mediated through technology.
"Unfortunately, you have not been authorized to use the administrative keys on this service, your warranty has now been voided and all products will be collected. Please be patient as a quality control enforcer is being dispatched to your location. We thank you for your brain."
What the text doesn't capture is the feeling with respect to the state of mind that produced it. "Oh that feels good" says the client getting their neck messaged. And the corresponding text? It does not carry the pleasurable state it is derived from. I like this aspect of our minds. And I like writing even though it doesn't capture the stimulus it entertains. That's a good thing, we humans write some f***** up scenarios lol.
I am from India. I have been unethically a victim of this brain computer interface technology from last one year till now. At the beginning i could not find how the people around me sense my actions. Later i got to know that they are identifying my movements as per my thoughts and trying to give stress and depression to me. I wondered how they could findy thoughts. Some of them are hearing my thoughts just with the help of smartphone and headset. Some of them even doesn't carry smart phone but they could hear. Another surprisingly, they could conversate with me, which is irritating. Day by day, the things become serious. I browsed in website about this issue for long time to fix the problem actually what it is. But i could not know how to solve this issue. I dont know how to stop others from accessing my thoughts. I cried, shouted, fighted from my thoughts itself. Even i could not share this to anyone. Parents were illiterate, financially unsupported, and literally now i am imbalance due to my mental issue. Even i could not make a complaint to police regarding this matter. From my side of research i just come to know through some implants or any non invasive material, they could monitor my thoughts. But how to find what is that exact tech, how to remove from my body ? If rightly not that, what would be the way that everyone could easily track my thoughts, how to stop it?.. I am completely unsupported. Even I tried to attempt suicide. But my inner thoughts never allowed to happen it. I struggled against them and doing it day by day. I cannot concentrate in my job. The number of users who disturbing me is increasing daily whomsoever i didn't see in my life. A supportless, financially unstable, mentally illness, unethically suffering from depression' Youngster from India humbly request to this world of ethical people, who ethically believe that this intervention of cognitive liberty is brutally wrong, to support me to survive by getting rid off this problem.🙏
This is cool but also a little scary.
Incredible. How many of these can be implanted at a time? Along with text is there ai audio coming? Could there be a second for taste and smell, a third for robotic limbs with touch feedback, a fourth for direct ai knowledge data bases and achieve instant genius? It's
think of the implications for stroke patients!
the most beautiful technology
It's a sad fact that with such amazing and helpful technology we have to worry about the worst thing that someone could do with it and basically have to do a pros and cons list for things that are life changing. I wish that humans weren't as selfish and power obsessed as they are.
Great work!
no throwing feelings to another has its drawback sometimes it could even make you addicted like what happens if a person with too much happiness transfers his happiness to the one who have never known happiness or what if a person that has lost all life kills millions just by transferring his depression to a train operator or something
this is like science fiction called starset
this is so near to become popular as flying cars, (2075, I guess?), but great breakthrough tho
"Unfortunately, you have not been authorized to use the administrative keys on this service, your warranty has now been voided and all products will be collected. Please be patient as a quality control enforcer is being dispatched to your location. We thank you for your brain."
Here we go
Congrats 👏👏
so beautiful! 🤩 .... Just praying that it will NOT be used to control humanity in a seemingly negative way
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It won't.
Wonderful at one hand, scary on the other
Could use it for comma patients, I'm sure they have some cognitive abilities... possibly.
That's amazing
Can we attach this to animals and find out what they are thinking?
I know right
Now that is unethical
@@MickeyWorsley no, it's not.
Then everyone will become vegan. No thanks.
Couldn't you reroute those signals to their intended destination and therefore bypass paralysis?
Is it really used for stroke,spinal injury or to decieve , control,and use as weapon against some groups ,country etc 🤔who in their rigth mind would agree to such
I think this would be great in another way.
In cbt, therapist teach their patients to recognise how their feelings and thoughts impact their behaviours, and how their behaviours directly influence their thoughts/feelings. I think it would be great if it advanced to a stage where people and professionals can see look at the thoughts in a more black and white format, for better treatment/self awareness!
After all 80% of your thoughts are negative, so why not break down and analyse why. That though can implicate issues we have never been prepared for.
-Nya, a regular joe
i fucking love cbt
That would be completely different technology, and it's not at all obvious to me that it's possible to do. You can't extrapolate that it is possible from the fact that they can do this anyway because it's reading neurological signals connected to movement, not abstract and specific thoughts and emotions.
I think emotions might be a bit more easy to image because they're often physiologically associated with movement - as in the flight or fright response, but I still doubt you'd be able to see much nuance - or even perhaps if someone was angry rather than just excited.
You definitely wouldn't be to see very much nuance or any thoughts or feelings that are specifically about something.
@@oxey_
I'm trying some remotely next week through online software. I'm not sure what to expect because it sounded like I'd be doing aptitude tests the way they described it.
I don't think the person I was asking wanted to give too much away. I suppose I'll find out anyway.
"Unfortunately, you have not been authorized to use the administrative keys on this service, your warranty has now been voided and all products will be collected. Please be patient as a quality control enforcer is being dispatched to your location. We thank you for your brain."
@@gerontodon I hear you! As I said, if it did advance to a stage where “that” was possible it would be great to use in different contexts other than twitter.
I do understand it’s more complicated than I have put it out, but I don’t have the energy to right and essay :) lol
Awesomeness!
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when I saw the Stentrode sparkling at 7:24 i wanted to cry. Its beautiful.
I wonder if this can be used to return muscle control without the spinal cord
Thats how leonard kille was made to feel too.
thats breakthrough and in the future , maybe we have a game like sword art online
With this tech, the thought police might actually be a reality.
What would happen if they got angry?
wow
May be like "Pacific Rim"thing
Like a lot of people, I think this would be a dangerous slippery slope if marketed widely. But asides from that, I would have been sceptical that something like this could be done, and I wonder exactly what signals are being read by these BCIs.
From what I've heard, there's no distinct neural pattern associated with the perception of blue, so does the BCI read the neural beginnings of the specific fine motor control necessary to articulate the word? I would have thought that would exclude people who have never been able to speak.
Oh, I think he just explained it - so you imagine typing a letter on an on-screen keyboard? That makes a bit more sense, I think.
he explained it kinda poorly.... the device notices when you tell a body part to move (they chose pressing your foot down) and understands that as a click, and that way you spell out phrases on a virtual keyboard like the one at 1:29
@@gabi.a
Yes, thanks. That's pretty much what I thought he was saying, it's just that I typed most of my comment just before he explained that.
So, they get get people to do whatever movements they're able to, and match those movements up with specific letters then - so moving your left big toe is A, and raising your heel is B etc, or something like that?
@@gerontodon I think it's more like you watch a keyboard on a screen scroll through letter groups then you make the thought as if you're clicking a mouse or tapping the screen. Then you do the same until you find the right letter. That's what it looked like in the video at least.
In the wrong hands, this could be dreadful. Personal space and privacy could be destroyed
Resistance is futile.
Already being done, Jack.
Pretty much anything in the wrong hands can be disastrous. But that therefore shouldn't stop our progress towards improving things just because we could speculate it being in the wrong hands.
This type of technology has already been used in nefarious ways by the US government. Making the technology widely available (and it's wireless) will not end well. You can learn from history or repeat it.
Already being used for evil. DARPA funded this and he states that in a public speaking engagement 4 months ago. It's been used on people without consent and now they are using it in the US with consent of some people. This technology is horrible. What is meant for good will always be used for evil.
Yes. That's what fingers are for.
❤️
This is literally the same as my psychosis
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I can see the potential really cool!
imagine hacking into someone else’s BCI