{"id":105828,"date":"2020-04-21T08:06:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T15:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/new-ai-algorithm-brings-us-closer-than-ever-to-controlling-machines-with-our-minds"},"modified":"2020-04-21T08:06:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T15:06:17","slug":"new-ai-algorithm-brings-us-closer-than-ever-to-controlling-machines-with-our-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/new-ai-algorithm-brings-us-closer-than-ever-to-controlling-machines-with-our-minds","title":{"rendered":"New AI algorithm brings us closer than ever to controlling machines with our minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-ai-algorithm-brings-us-closer-than-ever-to-controlling-machines-with-our-minds3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41551-020-0542-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">published research<\/a> showing how they\u2019d solved a frustrating problem for people who use a brain-computer interface (BCI) to control prosthetic devices with their thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>While the research itself is interesting \u2013 they created an algorithm that keeps the devices from constantly needing to be re-calibrated to handle the human brain\u2019s fluctuating neuronal activity \u2013 the real takeaway here is how close we are to a <i>universal<\/i> BCI.<\/p>\n<p>BCIs have been around for decades in one form or another, but they\u2019re costly to maintain and difficult to keep working properly. Currently they only make sense for narrow use \u2013 specifically, in the case of those who\u2019ve lost limbs. Because they\u2019re already used to using their brain to control an appendage, it\u2019s easier for scientists and researchers to <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2018\/08\/17\/developing-bionics-how-ibm-is-adapting-mind-control-for-accessibility\/\">harness those brainwaves<\/a> to control prosthetic devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh today published research showing how they\u2019d solved a frustrating problem for people who use a brain-computer interface (BCI) to control prosthetic devices with their thoughts. While the research itself is interesting \u2013 they created an algorithm that keeps the devices from constantly needing to be re-calibrated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}