The example sentences generated “only from neural data” at the top of this article seem surprisingly accurate to me, like, not exact matches but much better than what I would expect even from 10k hours:

“the room seemed colder” -> “ there was a breeze even a gentle gust”

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CobrastanJorji 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Tangential to your point, if you collect 10,000 hours of brain scanning in exactly one damp basement, I wonder if perhaps the model would become very, very specialized for all of the flavors of "this room seems colder."

	▲	rio-popper 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For the record, it was two basements -- we moved office in the middle -- and a bigger issue was actually overheating. But your point is basically right! The model is a lot better at certain kinds of ideas than others. Particularly concerning was the fact that the first cluster I noticed getting good was all the different variations of 'the headset is uncomfortable/heavy' etc. But this makes sense -- what participants talk about has a lot to do with what kinds of ideas the model can pick up, and this was more or less what we expected

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jcims 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Exactly. And honestly both this example and the one about the woman seemed to be what I would actually think/feel vs what I say.

Very interesting!

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ninapanickssery 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, agreed