In today's extraordinary episode, Prof. Bob Knight details how ML-powered brain computer interfaces (BCIs) could allow real-time thought-to-speech synthesis and the reversal of cognitive decline associated with aging.
This is a rare treat as "Dr. Bob" doesn't use social media and has only made two previous podcast appearances: on Ira Flatow's "Science Friday" and a little-known program called "The Joe Rogan Experience".
Dr. Bob:
• Is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at University of California, Berkeley.
• Is Adjunct Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at UC San Francisco.
• Over his career, has amassed tens of millions of dollars in research funding, 75 patents, and countless international awards for neuroscience and cognitive computing research.
• His hundreds of papers have together been cited over 70,000 times.
In this episode, Bob details:
• Why the “prefrontal cortex” region of our brains makes us uniquely intelligent relative to all the other species on this planet.
• The invaluable data that can be gathered by putting recording electrodes through our skulls and directly into our brains.
• How "dynamic time-warping" algorithms allow him to decode imagined sounds, even musical melodies, through recording electrodes implanted into the brain.
• How BCIs are life-changing for a broad range of illnesses today.
• The extraordinary ways that advances in hardware and machine learning could revolutionize medical care with BCIs in the coming years.
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