October 16, 2003
Brain Implants Work in Owl Monkeys
I saw this article on MSNBC News. I copied it into the extended entry in case the link died. I’m really interested in this stuff, which is one of the main reasons I wanted to get into Linguistics (to figure out if I could help a machine learn a language). The approach that these guys at Duke took to getting this to work was pretty smart. Instead of trying to train the animal to use the machine they trained the machine to use the animal. Read the article and you’ll see what I mean.
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