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DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation — mentioned by bbor

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:49:02 GMT

This is a very interesting experiment, and props to the team involved! Exploring the frontiers of the possible is almost always worthwhile. That said, in my humble (amateur!) opinion the framing from IEEE leaves a little to be desired, for one simple reason: they don't mention that most of what we're looking for is in the cortex (outer layer) of the brain, anyway!† And it kind of has to be, AFAIK... Namely; fNIRS[1] is one of the four main brain imaging technologies (that I know of?): EEG, fMRI, fNIRS, and ultrasound. Like fMRI (& ultrasound?), fNIRS measures the oxygenation levels of…

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DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation — mentioned by magicalhippo

Sun, 18 May 2025 12:15:50 GMT

Why so physical? Researchers ate already able to translate thoughts into text[1][2] by wearing a special cap with a fair amount of accuracy. [1]: https://www.extremetech.com/science/new-cap-uses-ai-to-read-... [2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14030

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DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation — mentioned by bbor

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 17:57:51 GMT

First, a disclaimer: this is a great article and an important moral issue, and reminded me of the fantastic museum the Germans set up at the Charité in Berlin, a longstanding medical institution that obviously had a significant role to play in murderous Nazi “science”, and regardless deals with those sacrificing their wellbeing to science via testing and tissue donation to this day. Definitely do not skip, if you’re ever in town. Ok now what I’m really curious about — I would ask that we take “AI is a big deal now that the frame problem is tractable, and LLMs are shockingly good at encoding…

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DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation — mentioned by turing_complete

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 09:55:40 GMT

Why not link to the paper instead of this shitty website? https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14030v2

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DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation — mentioned by lamerose

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 19:18:19 GMT

This is from a paper published back in September btw: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.14030.pdf

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DeWave: Discrete EEG Waves Encoding for Brain Dynamics to Text Translation — mentioned by ShamelessC

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 17:07:14 GMT

Yeah...The research here doesn't even make the claim that it has no hallucinations. It seems to largely be exciting _despite_ hallucinations because it clearly does occasionally guess the correct words. They mention lots of issues but so long as it passes peer review, seems like a massive step forward. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.14030v2.pdf

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