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The vOICe? Oh I see! Sensory substitution for the blind: vision by mental imagery. Paradigm shift pending: https://x.com/seeingwithsound, https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound, [email protected] https://www.seeingwithsound.com
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Now that US science funding is in disarray, I'll welcome more research on/with The vOICe from China and other countries redwang.github.io/CVPR19/ or you can try and work on Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant FWIW

Who benefits from US funding uncertainty? Hours after posting this, I got an email inviting me to China with a “package to support my research for 20 years.” Apparently, generous offers are available to all good scientists!🧪🧠

Microsoft's Satya Nadella pumps the brakes on #AI #hype gizmodo.com/microsofts-s... Satya Nadella – Microsoft's AGI plan & quantum breakthrough: #AGI is not the real benchmark: 10% economic growth is www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/satya-nade...

#InnoVision: An advanced navigation aid for visually impaired individuals using GPS, GSM, and sensor technologies pjset.org/index.php/jo...

What Europe should do RIGHT NOW: Make it extremely easy for US scientists to get long-term visa, create as many additional research jobs in key areas as possible, create new, generous science and research funds. People are losing their jobs over there NOW. Let‘s welcome them.

You can hype whatever you like, but all the main #LLM #AI models agree that The vOICe vision BCI is a serious contender for a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision www.seeingwithsound.com/archive/ Even Elon Musk's own Grok-2 and Grok-3 AI models. #BCI #NeuroTech

Human curriculum learning of a cue combination task osf.io/preprints/ps... by @qingtianmi.bsky.social @summerfieldlab.bsky.social on human learning; "we can use cognitive models to accelerate human probabilistic learning"; how to retarget this to mastering sensory substitution?

Most journalists nowadays merely regurgitate and rephrase press releases and social media posts. One does not need AGI to beat that, existing LLM AI models suffice. Yes, I understand that journalists are under heavy pressure for daily word count and have no time to do their own research and think.

Multiscale fusion enhanced spiking neural network for invasive BCI neural signal decoding www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... Nice, but a powerbank will get you through all day anyway, so energy-efficient neuromorphic solutions are a low priority thing; #BCI #NeuroTech

WIRED health & biotech writer here. If you're a USDA employee working on the government's response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak and would like to speak securely about what's happening at the agency, please reach out to me on Signal at emullin.06. I can honor requests for anonymity.

Traveling Waves Integrate Spatial Information Into Spectral Representations arxiv.org/abs/2502.06034 #neuroscience

To xAI Grok-3beta: Why will The vOICe sensory substitution defeat Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision? x.com/i/grok/share... #BCI #NeuroTech

Recommended reading for blind people considering a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision play.google.com/store/books/... Search for paradise: A patient's account of the artificial vision experiment

Doctors in London cure blindness in children with rare condition www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Four children can now see shapes, find toys, recognise their parents' faces and some can read and write; leber congenital amaurosis (#LCA)

OK, so you are human and think you are smart like AGI? That don't impress me much youtube.com/watch?v=7jFJ... (paraphrasing Shania Twain lyrics)

Prior expectations guide #multisensory #integration during face-to-face communication www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Convenience work on The vOICe for Windows: in the next version, visibility of (green) bounding frame, clock and fixation point - if active in fullscreen Exercise mode - can be toggled with a simple mouse click. Also works with Meta Quest controller if streaming to Quest 2 or 3 using Virtual Desktop.

Retraction Note: Letter to editor: "Neuralink's brain implant: a vision for enhanced human-machine integration" link.springer.com/article/10.1... "strong indications that the text was generated by a large language model (#LLM) without proper disclosure"; #BCI & #AI @garymarcus.bsky.social

I wrote a thing for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. The attack on scientific infrastructure happening in the US shows that relying on any one country is not a good option for science. We need to start supporting and building international, decentralised infrastructure for science.

(photo) With The vOICe vision BCI glasses, a horizontal thin white bar or tube gives a constant-pitch narrow-band noise, close to a constant pure tone. Slanting the bar gives a rising or falling pitch.

Chinese scientists make brain-computer co-evolution possible for the first time www.scmp.com/news/china/s... by @LingXin17 via @bioniclab.bsky.social; "world's first two-way adaptive brain-computer interface (BCI), boosting efficiency 100-fold"; #BCI #NeuroTech

Decoding auditory working memory content from EEG aftereffects of auditory-cortical TMS www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

From Europe, with love for science. #ELEANOR: Studying the brain's complexity with light on a chip www.ru.nl/en/donders-i... #BCI #NeuroTech #photonics #optogenetics #neuroscience

Intersensory attention deficits in schizophrenia relate to ongoing sensorimotor beta oscillations www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here about visual-tactile target detection, but probably extends to visual-auditory target detection. #neuroscience

Retraction Note: Letter to editor: "Neuralink's brain implant: a vision for enhanced human-machine integration" link.springer.com/article/10.1... "strong indications that the text was generated by a large language model (#LLM) without proper disclosure"; #BCI & #AI @garymarcus.bsky.social

The most underreported and important story in AI right now: Pure scaling has failed to produce AGI, despite a half-trillion dollar investment. New essay at Fortune: fortune.com/2025/02/19/g...