Day to day moments that make you go 🤔: ‘edge cases’ or ‘prediction errors’ (red dress lady in The Matrix) are represented as activity of dopamine neurons in the midbrain. The frequency dependence of this effect is due to the rate (not the number) of action potentials produced by

AI is not some sort of natural phenomenon that will just emerge and become dangerous. *WE* design it and *WE* build it. I can imagine thousands of scenarios where a turbojet goes terribly wrong. Yet we managed to make turbojets insanely reliable before deploying them widely.

Neurotech has become frothy. It is net positive, but technical journalism has a role to play. Naveen Rao has been keeping founders honest. This substack is both brutal and reasonable: “Neurotech has too much head-nodding, passive click-scrolling, hypemongering already. If you see

Functional neurointervention could become largest medtech sector of all

Here are a few more images from the NIH Director's Blog showcasing new 3D reconstructions of human brain tissue. These are our most detailed depictions of the human brain to date. We each host a marvelous cosmos within. 🧠✨ directorsblog.nih.gov/2024/05/30/mos…

Brain monitoring in epilepsy is like glucose monitoring in diabetes. Can be life changing.

Reincarnation of a meeting started by Stephan A Mayer in 2006. Energized back to life by Fawaz Al-Mufti, MD, FSVIN and back at The New York Academy of Medicine. Shahram Majidi, MD

A smart SLP I met today said that BCIs are not just about communication. The preservation of autonomy is about making choices - independently. BCIs ensure you can keep making choices despite an ailing body. Freedom of expression is a human right and you don’t appreciate it until

Multimodal OpenAI GTP 4o provides environment-relevant inputs and outputs for users. BCIs enable direct thought-control of prompts. This is amazing for people with paralysis.

Gliosis got him dejected. Gave up his BCI dream. (Forgot about endovascular) 👂6.15 youtu.be/25LUF8GmbFU?si…

Inhaled ketamine for depression is on a blockbuster trajectory. Psychedelic movement to follow and will re-shape psychiatry for the better

Neuralink is trading at $8 billion 🤨 reuters.com/technology/neu…

Generative AI is taking the inputs from the digital world in, generating prompts, and then we’re on the other side. Our deep learning models are making predictions on what the brain wants to do, so the BCI is the harbor of choice, restoring autonomy in decision making.

Apple Vision Pro requires hand gestures to make selections on the screen. Synchron is testing a set of brain gestures derived directly from the BCI, to replace hand gestures, for people like Mark with limited limb function due to conditions like #ALS. www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc.c…

The hand gestures needed for awesome control of Apple Vision Pro are: Tap, pinch, scroll, pinch and hold, double tap, triple tap. Eye-tracking enables trajectory movement and can do a 'dwell click', which provides a solitary tap. It is timer based, not a voluntary selection.

Yes, but glasses as ‘penultimate’. BCI as ultimate