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till use Facebook even after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Libra, and
more privacy and ethics violations than you and your extended family
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concerns over the computer-brain interface the company began developing two
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Francisco has successfully created an interface that translates brain signals into
dialogue; results were published in Nature Communication.7KHVRIWZDUH
determines what you’ve heard and said in reply without access to any audio of
the conversation. It uses high-density electrocorticography (ECoG), which
requires sensors implanted in the brain, so there is no immediate concern for
any non-consensual mind reading on Facebook’s part. It’s clear from the
published research that the technology still has a long road ahead before it
achieves both a natural and practical usefulness:Facebook Takes First Steps in
Creating Mind-Reading Technology
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