[leggomylibro]

It looks cool, but they trained their models on people reading printed sentences out loud.

Would that actually translate to decoding the process of turning abstract thoughts into words?

The researchers also note that their models are vulnerable to over-fitting because of the paucity of training data, and they only used a 250-word vocabulary. Neuralink also has a strong commercial incentive to inflate the results, so I'm not too sure about this.

It's great to see progress in these areas, but it seems that technologies like eye-tracking and P300 spellers are probably going to be more reliable and less invasive for quite some time.

[hyyggnj]

The speaking aloud is very suspicious. Why do subjects need to speak aloud? Are they actually decoding neural signals or just picking up artifacts introduced by the physical act of speaking (i.e. electrodes vibrating due to sound, etc)?