If you thought we were already living in crazy times, you should reconsider: Former OpenAI founder Naomi Bashkansky is now building Thought-to-text, aka telepathy.
How to achieve Thought-to-text? Simple: More compute:
"To train models that can predict text given brain signals, we must apply the same lesson learned by those predicting text given speech audio, or text given preceding text: the bitter lesson.
The lesson roughly states that you should throw more useful compute at your model, and your model will become better than any ingenious algorithm you could've hand-crafted. That means we must scale up our data collection by orders of magnitude beyond what has ever been done in academia."
Things will get very weird.
Two weeks ago, I resigned from OpenAI to join Conduit as a founding researcher, where we're training models to non-invasively read the human mind. I've written ...