The Future of Brain Implants: Restoring Speech, Regaining Mobility, Treating Pain
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We had some interns that played Nintendo through a sheep's brain. We did a few tests where we passed language, we passed natural language and text through a sheep's brain to sort of benchmark how quickly we could send communication through them. And like more rigorously, we did a uh test of the information transfer rate of the system and determined that like one of our cortical modules can uh transfer 200 bits per second, which is the highest data rate brain computer interface in the world, and it happens to be about 20 times faster than Neuralink. We and others will develop visual prostheses for people who are blind to restore vision. When vision restoration reaches 20-20 vision, then a BCI provided image will be indistinguishable from one that was delivered by the eye, and at that point you have the ultimate Air VR experience.
People often have a their intuition for what is invasive and what is not invasive in medicine can be wrong. So for instance, getting a brain implant sounds very scary, but taking a pill doesn't. But I'll tell you that like, you know, if you have two options and one of them is being on op like strong opiates for a long time and the other one is getting like a deep brain stimulator, I think that empirically strong opiates are more invasive. All right, hey everybody, it's Michael Schermer. It's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show.
I have a very special guest and topic today, brain computer interface. Oh my god. My guest is Dr. Matt Angel. He's the founder and CEO of Paradromics, a neurotechnology leader developing the world's most advanced and clinically viable brain computer interface that has an acronym BCI platform, bridging human thought and digital capability.
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