Researchers are making a brain implant that uses ChatGPT to help people with speech disabilities talk. The implant reads brain signals and turns them into text, which could be a big help for those who can’t communicate well with traditional methods.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/how-this-brain-implant-is-using-chatgpt/
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What do you think about using AI like ChatGPT in medical devices? Could it really help people with disabilities, or are there risks we need to consider?
Hmm, this looks like Hawking’s computer, but with the extra ability to use premade sentences in addition to typing. These are pretty short and simple, so using ChatGPT for them gives me slight “nuclear carrier to go fishing in the lake” vibes, but if it helps, it helps.
Something that I don’t think is at all acceptable is needing to hook up a disabled person online at all times, making their treatment 100% always-online and dependent on a remote corporation (that isn’t held to any medical standards), that’s fucking dystopian and not even strictly necessary. Since the sentences in the first example are so simple, it would benefit from a very minified model that can run locally instead, which could be done tomorrow if these models were actually open source. When you go fishing, take a fishing boat.
ChatGPT can’t even tell you how many r’s there are in the word strawberry