Today, I saw several times on X the case of Meta asking its employees to stay home because they were going to announce layoffs. These two statuses in particular caught my attention (Tweet 1) and (Tweet 2). posts are about Meta layoffs
It seems that with the intention of helping companies (and a little bit of fear of not being fired), we are collaborating on a project that will replace us. So the question here is not "if" but "when". And presumably, if the employees refused, someone else would be found to do it.
Flowtica Scribe
Hi everyone!
Sure, the MEG scanner is still this massive non-portable machine. But the jump in performance is pretty big. Brain2Qwerty v2 gets to 61% word accuracy on average, and 78% for the best participant — where more than half the sentences only had one word wrong or less.
They basically went end-to-end from raw brain signals instead of using the usual hand-crafted pipelines, and it shows.
Meta also released the full training code for v1 & v2, and the v1 dataset. The scaling laws look promising!
Mind dictation soon?
This feels like a major leap forward for brain computer interfaces. If accuracy keepsimproving, text input from thought could change accessibility tools completely.