I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy (naomibashkansky.com)

are you specifically focused on non-invasive methods/why? seems like you reach a noise barrier which limits things like this

exciting! you could imagine brain transcriptions being very high signal RLHF data that could help align models more deeply to human preference.

You know how a microphone can also serve as a speaker?

Can this technology also do text to thought?

Hmm...how do you stop private thoughts from reaching the LLM? Suddenly you can be prosecuted for thinking the "wrong" thoughts?

I'd like to think that actually-existing-telepathy would be a more transformative technology than something that simply allows people to do their existing work more conveniently.

If it doesn't work try thinking in Russian

Never mind "how could this go wrong". How could this go right?

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Translation:

"I am a former-OpenAI employee and looking for investors to fund my AI startup."

As though we haven't done enough already to manipulate the mind, now we can have a neural model dictate our thoughts for us.

My thoughts being beamed to a frontier model where they are monetizable (and used for training) is terrifying.

So is it just that these are people who haven’t personally experienced well-intentioned technology turning into a living nightmare? Watching the optimism and then collapse of Web 2.0 was a formative experience for me. I’m 38. Is this just naivete? What is this?

"In a couple years"

In a couple years?! Get over the technical hurdles, do you think PEOPLE will be ready to telepathically talk to a computer in A COUPLE OF YEARS?

This is doomed to fail. Dry EEG electrodes basically only capture noise.

Visit from CIA in 3, 2, 1...

The only thing I would actually want this for would be a dream logger. Extremely invasive and quite dangerous otherwise.

I thought this was a parody when I opened it.

Maybe I’m just demented but i feel like the first time I interface with chatgpt via telepathy it’s going to see my thoughts when the guy in the cube behind me farts or chews loudly, and send the FBI.

What a terrible idea.

> My AI is a natural extension of me. It feels like a sixth sense and another limb. I wonder about a problem, feel as though I’m literally surfing the web, see glimpses of the websites, get flashes of intuition about the problem, and ultimately derive the answer. It feels fun! My brain is like the Flash. Because of write tech, my thinking is the fastest it's ever been even when I turn my AI off.

I read "race conditions" all over this vision.

who holds the copyright on the transcriptions of my thoughts read by this hardware? what license to those do you impose through EULA? what privacy controls need to be invented to prevent literal thought police?

> non-invasive

Dead in the water.

It's like an omlette. Can't make a neural interface worth a damn without cracking open a few skulls.

I can't wait for this tech to be incorporated into corporate productivity trackers that seem to be getting more popular.

From the article.

>Thought-to-text, aka telepathy

No, that's not telepathy. I'd leave the term alone. Consider it to be reserved for... well... telepathy!

> In a couple years, the main way we'll talk with our AIs is with our thoughts. They will not be a super-smart automated intern or coworker that you desperately try to keep up with. They will be a natural, joyful extension of you.

Ah, yes, very joyful indeed.

Also, fuck those interns! They're just too smart to keep up with.