{"id":133276,"date":"2021-12-30T01:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T09:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/after-als-struck-he-became-the-worlds-most-advanced-cyborg"},"modified":"2021-12-30T01:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T09:22:17","slug":"after-als-struck-he-became-the-worlds-most-advanced-cyborg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/after-als-struck-he-became-the-worlds-most-advanced-cyborg","title":{"rendered":"After ALS struck, he became the world\u2019s most advanced cyborg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-als-struck-he-became-the-worlds-most-advanced-cyborg2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this point, Scott-Morgan is almost completely \u201clocked-in,\u201d unable to move except for his eyes and a few facial muscles. His sense of smell and taste are gone, and he can\u2019t breathe on his own, but his brilliant mind is fully intact.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_bsWguba5So?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scott-Morgan now relies on a synthetic version of his biological voice and has had his face scanned to produce a 3D <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_bsWguba5So\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">animated avatar<\/a>, which he wears on a screen on his chest when speaking publicly. After a series of operations to extend his life, including a total laryngectomy, he uses technologies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openai.com\/blog\/better-language-models\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">GPT-2<\/a>, OpenAI\u2019s generative deep-learning model for text, pushing the boundaries of what it means to be human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this point, Scott-Morgan is almost completely \u201clocked-in,\u201d unable to move except for his eyes and a few facial muscles. His sense of smell and taste are gone, and he can\u2019t breathe on his own, but his brilliant mind is fully intact. Scott-Morgan now relies on a synthetic version of his biological voice and has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133276","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}