I used to think like this too, but with Reddit Apps moving over to Lemmy I find real potential and usability here. It won’t happen overnight, but the chances are not nil.

I’d imagine a tech company would find it more interesting, it has a lot of user generated content to feed AI training (admittedly there is a lot of bot content, but they’d have tools to detect humans I guess?)

Later, the same participants were scanned listening to a new story or imagining telling a story and the decoder was used to generate text from brain activity alone. About half the time, the text closely – and sometimes precisely – matched the intended meanings of the original words.

You left out the most important context about “half of the time”. Guessing what you’re thinking of by just looking at your brain activity with a 50% accuracy is a very very good achievement - it’s not pulling it out of a 1 or 0 outcome like you’re with your coin flip.

You can pretend that the AI is useless and you’re the smartest boy in the class all you want, doesn’t negate the accomplishments.

when i have to convert cm to m I move the comma

I feel the real war we need to fight over is whether the decimal point or the decimal comma is the one true decimal separator.

It’s written on the label/signs where we bought it from.