Nice, now even if I become disabled I still won't be free of a job!

(I recognize that this may be an incredible achievement and quality of life improvement, but the way this news is phrased is absolutely ridiculous)

Is that all humans are appreciated for? Working full-time jobs? What if the dear precious ALS guy just wants to enjoy his life? What if he doesn't want to participate in the rat race? God forbid somebody collects disability paychecks and sips margaritas on the beach in Cancun, just as he's entitled to.

No need to spread bad news.

Good about the increased possibilities though.

Because that's the only way you can be worth something. 🫩

The lab has built its own software platform for operating BCI devices known as Brain-computer interface for Rapidly Adaptive Neural Decoding (BRAND, which Brandman told us was coincidentally named), which UCD postdoctoral fellow Nick Card built machine learning algorithms for.

Aah.. So not LLMs. Makes sense.

Also to the reporter who decided to focus on 'full time job' in the title. You focused on 5 hours of work instead of the fact that the patient can now interact with his daughter, who never heard him speak, and also he is able to have conversations with his friends and family. Please be more human.

Starts strong but dam, capitalism just sneaks up and slaps the happy right out of ya.

/c/aboringdystopia

Peak capitalism. The Matrix would be proud

Great, now you can suffer AND work!

I gettit, it's impressive, it will greatly increase their happiness with the little they have, but why conflate this awesome thing with "now get to work, you serf!"?

So now you can't even be paralyzed in peace

I'm sure that patient is happy to find something to do that adds to the general pool of "things we do".

I also hope that they also say "fuck this", retire, and do art full time if its their jam.

New slave market discovered.

So we’re making servitors now?

If you cant work, we will invent solutions!

Work must continue

Proprietary tech with no existing laws telling the companies they have to keep supporting it, all so I can make a rich person richer? Where do I sign up?

It's great technology that helps people in need, but I'm worried that one day, they'll even dig us out of our graves and put us to work.🥶

[CAPITALISM INTENSIFIES]

r/orphancrushingmachine -I'm not sure there's a parallel lemmy community.

I mean he's a pretty cool guy, he does organizing and strategy work for campaigns of people who fight climate change and he's a climate activist. He's obviously been afflicted with a terrible illness, but he's also got some things going for him, despite his families insistence they don't have generational wealth he did go to Duke so there's still a good deal of privilege in this claim.

From all accounts it seems he's fighting the good fight. So it's a pretty cool thing that's happened but it's definitely gonna eventually open the door to awful things because capitalism is evil.

Jesus Christ, the focus on working a job in that title 😞

Yes there are a lot of dark sides to this but I am still somewhat hopeful for people whose body have betrayed them.

Unfortunately the unmentioned horror of this technology as it currently stands is similar to "Flowers for algernon". The brain is extremely territorial and doesn't like weird metallic stuff stuck in it. In response, I believe the astrocytes build encapsulating scar tissue around the probes that eventually deafen them. I have been following this tech since the early stages in the late 90's and no one seems to have solved that. Truly bitter experience for epilepsy and near terminally depressed patients who have been given some semblance of normallacy only to have it slip away.

A currently insanely expensive probe design has something like a magnet on a mems platform so a less reactive and normally insulating material can be used to "sense" electrical impulses. Sadly it has something brutal like a sub 5% production yield and can be damaged almost anywhere along the journey from a fabrication laboratory to a operating room.

Hell yeah. Next, they can get a cut of every dollar made! Or a subscription service with strict usage limits and add-ons to re-enable disabled functionality. It's one or the other.

So many cynical comments about him being able to work and capitalism. If I was in his position I would be super happy to be able to contribute to the household income instead of feeling like a burden. Sure being able to work isn't the only thing to be happy for but carrying your own weight must feel great

I choose death

Matrix, here we come.

🤦

8% is the difference between a cool coworker and an asshole

Damn, we really got to Pantheon's "Uploaded Intelligence" concept before GTA 6.

So AI helps disadvantaged people get in to the wage-slave-queue to fight for their lives against everyone else.. How sweet. Too bad AI/Capitalism takes away the potential jobs needed for that..

Imbecile coping from an archaic failing ideology, and the focus should be on their cognitive well-being - not their potential contribution to this Fascist regime we are living in..