New BCI paper by @NeurosurgUCSF + @FBRealityLabs enabling a paralyzed person to communicate via "speech neuroprosthesis" through a "subdural, high-density, multielectrode array" brain implant on the sensorimotor cortex that translates thoughts to 50 words.https://t.co/cuxq5matFh https://t.co/idIcqrrJBp pic.twitter.com/MYTzBDbiX0

— Kent Bye VoicesOfVR (@kentbye) July 14, 2021

My old team at FB and researchers at UCSF unveil state-of-the-art results in decoding attempted speech in a locked-in patient with an invasive BCI https://t.co/YZZc6T87GG

— Patrick Mineault (@patrickmineault) July 15, 2021

Facebook cancelled its brain-reading project. tbh, didn't ever seem like it would work. The stumbling block was mostly the difficulty of reading neural signals from outside the skull with any kind of resolutionhttps://t.co/IRKrBzdzON

— Antonio Regalado (@antonioregalado) July 14, 2021

BREAKING: The first results of a clinical trial from @ChangLabUcsf show a paralyzed person using a neuroprosthetic device to directly translate brain activity into full sentences, without the need to spell words letter-by-letter. @NeurosurgUCSF https://t.co/rDneiBYQWU

— UC San Francisco (@UCSF) July 14, 2021

An interesting detail: "Mark Chevillet, the physicist and neuroscientist who until last year headed the [brain interface] project but recently switched roles to study how Facebook handles elections." https://t.co/IYO8DwwB7r

— Tom Simonite (@tsimonite) July 14, 2021

.@UCSF researchers have successfully demonstrated that full words and sentences can be decoded from brain activity of a person with paralysis in real-time. https://t.co/BPKMzXti8b

— Edge Impulse (@EdgeImpulse) July 15, 2021

In 2019 we shared our work to build a non-invasive wearable device that lets people communicate with their devices more naturally. We’ve been supporting a research team at @NeurosurgUCSF working to help restore speech for patients with neurological damage https://t.co/YbrGgRP5fs

— Boz (@boztank) July 14, 2021

Facebook wanted you to type with your mind. Now it’s dropping funding for this research because, says the former head of the silent-speech project, the consumer interface is "still a very long way out. Possibly longer than we would have foreseen.” https://t.co/FNIKpN2971

— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) July 15, 2021

Facebook stops funding for brain reading computer interface | MIT Technology Review #bci #vr #ar https://t.co/lkAwR7M2nE

— tipatat (@tipatat) July 15, 2021

Facebook has given up on trying to literally read your mind, for now. Not because it was a bad idea (of course not!) but because it was too hard and expensive. https://t.co/lCLWIna63A

— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) July 15, 2021

페이스북, 머리에 장착하는 형태의 뇌파 입력 장치 프로젝트 중단. 대신 팔 근육 신호 읽는 VR 손목 컨트롤러에 집중

"신경권리" 우려와도 거리두기

Facebook stops funding for brain reading computer interface | MIT Technology Review https://t.co/X6LaZBJncy

— lunamoth (@lunamoth) July 15, 2021

Sleep easy, folks!

Facebook is ditching plans to make an interface that reads the brain | via @techreview https://t.co/CjzDgYE6a2

— Rob McCargow (@RobMcCargow) July 15, 2021

Recurrent trends in the tech world:
1) Make promises to deliver a futuristic sounding but unrealistic tech that is absurd & impossible

2) Realize your promises are unrealistic, absurd & impossible

3) Walk back your promises

4) Rinse & repeat https://t.co/jEQY503Zug

— Abeba Birhane (@Abebab) July 15, 2021

I genuinely don't understand why anyone (much less multiple someones) pursue this kind of tech because WHY WOULD YOU LET A CORPORATION INTO YOUR ACTUAL PHYSICAL BRAIN.

(Glad it's stopped at Facebook, wish it had never started, now to get Elon to stop.)https://t.co/1zDQ5N5Iuf

— Techni-Calli (@Iwillleavenow) July 15, 2021

#Facebook stops funding for brain reading computer interface, ending a project to build a head-mounted brain-typing device and will instead focus on a wrist controller for #VR that reads muscle signals @antonioregalado⁩ ⁦@tnatw⁩ #healthtech https://t.co/UGLQ9OEiy2

— Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer (@EvanKirstel) July 15, 2021

（FBの #BCI(※)プロジェクト、結局頓挫していた模様）
「フェイスブックは脳読取機器作成計画を(事実上)破棄しています。消費者向け読心デバイスの研究はひとまず終了しました。」
▼Facebook stops funding for brain reading computer interfacehttps://t.co/RlRSdlCh3d
※#BrainComputerInterface

— Ken Sugar? (@ken_sugar) July 15, 2021

BCI milestone: New research from @UCSF with support from @Facebook shows the potential of brain-computer interfaces for restoring speech communication ? // https://t.co/DrtQUXndGb pic.twitter.com/6RnNZkDIdJ

— Tech@Facebook (@techatfacebook) July 14, 2021

This is a pretty amazing first: a person who was paralyzed and lost the ability to speak 16 years ago managed to communicate via a neural interface that decoded words from speech signals being sent from his brain to his vocal tract https://t.co/lVsBUlnMhZ

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) July 15, 2021

Today is a proud day: We're sharing an update on our BCI work at @Facebook and a monumental collaboration we supported at UCSF that just got published in the @NEJM. https://t.co/iCytHaPf5S

— Emily Mugler (@emilymugler) July 15, 2021

Ping @tnatw
BCI milestone: New research from UCSF with support from Facebook: the first time someone with severe speech loss has been able to type out what they wanted to say almost instantly, simply by attempting speechhttps://t.co/Ma80960GmP

— Niclas Johansson (@NiclasJ) July 15, 2021

Apparently a #BCI milestone is achieved by @FBRealityLabs together with @NeurosurgUCSF ?

Which part of this news makes you excited and which scares the hell out of you?https://t.co/BzZmZrJR8X

— Kavya Pearlman ?✈️? (@KavyaPearlman) July 14, 2021

Nice article. Also lays out FBs efforts with optical BCIs.
BCI milestone: New research from UCSF with support from Facebook shows the potential of brain-computer interfaces for restoring speech communication https://t.co/3i0qABTv7V

— David Boas (@BoasDavid) July 14, 2021

Got some major updates!https://t.co/WHaKgEK7B2

— Stephanie Naufel (@snaufel) July 14, 2021

For the first time ever, researchers have translated complex brainwaves into text. A man who has been unable to speak for over a decade could think of sentences and a computer would read and display them. He currently has 50 words available to him.https://t.co/Rtbjc1rzPF pic.twitter.com/AfzmDywi51

— Strictly (@StrictlyChristo) July 15, 2021

Breakthrough Technology: @UCSF researchers, led by neurosurgeon Edward Chang, have successfully developed a “speech neuroprosthesis” that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate. https://t.co/xH3Yup6xat #ucsfweill

— UCSF Neurosurgery (@NeurosurgUCSF) July 14, 2021

Way to go restorative Neurosciences ??

“Neuroprosthesis” Restores Words to Man with Paralysis | UC San Francisco https://t.co/j7OfL5DIfm

— حسام الجهني Hosam Al-Jehani (@HosamJehani) July 15, 2021

A paralyzed man is able to communicate in full sentences after researchers successfully translated signals from his brain into words that appear on screen. https://t.co/G50kAkijsQ

— Neosensory (@neosensory) July 15, 2021

Amazing. Researchers at @UCSF have developed a device that interprets neural signals meant to control the vocal tract, translate them into text, displayed on a screen; a paralyzed person can thus speak. 50 words so far. https://t.co/pbzXVniwkh

— Daniel Willingham (@DTWillingham) July 15, 2021

BREAKING: The first results of a clinical trial from @ChangLabUcsf show a paralyzed person using a neuroprosthetic device to directly translate brain activity into full sentences, without the need to spell words letter-by-letter. @NeurosurgUCSF https://t.co/rDneiBYQWU

— UC San Francisco (@UCSF) July 14, 2021

BIG NEWS: New “neuroprosthesis” tech has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences by decoding full words from his brain! Congrats to Dr. Eddie Chang & team on this achievement—which could be life-changing for people with speech loss! https://t.co/WDsA3kgVIf

— UCSF Health (@UCSFHospitals) July 14, 2021

Gives a new meaning to “mind blowing.” ?
Custom neural network models distinguished subtle patterns in brain activity to detect speech attempts and identify which words the patient was trying to say. #PrecisionMedicine #AI https://t.co/h0KqomY9M8

— UCSF Precision Medicine (@UCSFPrecision) July 14, 2021

麻痺患者の脳にインプラントした電極から声帯をコントロールする信号を読み取ってテキスト化するのに成功したのだそうだhttps://t.co/X6idpZEv81
カーソル移動で文字入力するよりも速くスピーチできる

— ゆきまさかずよし (@Kyukimasa) July 15, 2021

Some amazing work from @ChangLabUcsf @KaruneshGanguly @UCSFHospitals

⏰ tl;dr ⏰
They decoded ? signals and were able to go from attempted speech to text. All in a patient that is paralyzed and cannot speak!!

I'm looking forward to ? the paper!https://t.co/De4yFLlFN6

— Sabera Talukder (@SaberaTalukder) July 15, 2021