By AFPMore by this AuthorSAN FRANCISCOFacebook wants to read your mind. "Speech is essentially a compression algorithm, and a lousy one at that," Facebook executive and former DARPA director Regina Dugan told a packed audience at the Silicon Valley event. Such brain-computer interface technology currently involves implanting electrodes, but Facebook wants to use optical imaging to eliminate the need to surgically intrude on brains, according to Dugan. Facebook is looking at creating "silent-speech interfaces" based on sensors that could be worn, and made in quantity. Facebook started the Building 8 group last year, and put it in the hands of Dugan, who had previously led an advanced-technology projects group at Google.

Source: Daily Nation April 20, 2017 03:00 UTC