As a manager I could hook it up to my corporate performance system and use ability to comprehend boring meeting content as a performance metric. It’ll be awesome, you’ll see.
Don’t get too far ahead of the results, but yeah, this makes things extremely interesting.
From the paper:
”However, whether these models encode, retrieve and pay attention to information that specifically relates to behavior in general, and to comprehension in particular remains controversial”
edit: Mapping from a statistical model directly to one specific individual’s brain may turn out to be intractable for things like brain implants.
But, the chances are pretty good that there will be strides made in unexpected areas.
If it holds up, you could monitor kids in class, dementia patients.. wild. Start your startup engines.
Extrapolating, this also suggests neurolink should work and you can probably do it with less invasive tech.