Paraplegic people can use brain-reading devices to talk

Researchers from Stanford and the University of California at San Francisco claim to have accelerated the translation of neural activity into text using implanted electrodes in patients with acute lateral sclerosis. The study’s results showed an error rate of 9.6% when the implant limited the number of words to 50 instead of 125,000. “It is a proof of concept,” lead researcher Edward Chang said.