From Amputee to Cyborg with this AI-Powered Hand! 🦾
Last Updated on July 20, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Louis Bouchard
Originally published on Towards AI.
With this AI-powered nerve interface, the amputee can control a neuroprosthetic hand with life-like dexterity and intuitiveness.

Originally published on louisbouchard.ai, read it 2 days before on my blog!
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I will talk about a randomly picked application of transformers from the 600 new papers published this week, adding nothing much to the field but improving the accuracy by 0.01% on one benchmark by tweaking some parameters.
I hope you are not too excited about this introduction because that was just to mess with transformers’ recent popularity. Of course, they are awesome and super useful in many cases, and most researchers are focusing on them, but other things exist in AI that are as exciting if not… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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