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Hank: bionic implants combined with speech recognition are not far off (2010)

prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2010-04-05) · owner: Hank

In April 2010 Hank forecast that speech recognition combined with a bionic brain implant was not far off and would change what it means to be a person.

Told alongside: Hank: accurate speech recognition will arrive before long (2010)

About: brain implant, speech recognition

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2010-04-05 predicted Hank forecasts that speech recognition combined with a bionic implant is not far off, and would dramatically change what it means to be a person. (hedged) Google in your Brain 00:03:08

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2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

  • 2010-04-05 · Google in your Brain — Hank says 100% accurate speech recognition in two languages would make subtitling conversations on handheld, in-ear or in-eye devices trivial, though machine translation would stay inaccurate, as Google Translate shows. — 00:02:39
  • 2010-04-05 · Google in your Brain — Hank thinks speech recognition combined with a bionic implant, which to him does not seem far off, would dramatically change what it means to be a person. (hedged) — 00:03:08