Brain Implant Translates Paralyzed Man's Thoughts Into Text With 94% Accuracy A man paralyzed from the neck down due to a spinal cord injury he sustained in 2007 has shown he can communicate his thoughts, thanks to a brain implant system that translates his imagined handwriting into actual text. The device – part of a longstanding research collaboration called BrainGate – is a brain-computer interface (BCI), that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to interpret signals of neural activity generated during handwriting. In this case, the man – called T5 in the study, and who was 65 years of age at the time of the research – wasn't doing any actual writing, as his hand, along with all his limbs, had been paralyzed for several years. But during the experiment, reported in Nature earlier in the year, the man concentrated as if he were writing – effectively, thinking about making the letters with an imaginary pen and paper.
Saw this one. Then there was one implant that restored a very limited sight for a blind woman. She could see some shapes, and few different letters/numbers, but even that beats the hell out of the zero visibility & future looks promising. First time thought as of writing, would invest not for profits, but just to support such vision. Baby steps. And then humans master it. We always do.