Researchers developed an AI-generated voice resembling the study participant’s using recordings of him speaking before ALS had severely impaired his speech. AI then translated his brain activity into speech using that reconstructed voice. Read my latest for @ComputeOptimist 👇🏻

In my latest for @ComputeOptimist, I explore how AI is helping restore natural communication for those living with ALS. Not just through greater speed, accuracy, and independence, but by translating brain activity into tone, emphasis, and even song.

This week’s @ComputeOptimist piece drops tomorrow 🧠

The techno-optimists are having fun. And optimism is how we win. Read my latest for @ComputeOptimist ✍🏻

Next @ComputeOptimist piece drops Monday!

Data After Dark in VICE tonight: “For Ed Tarnowski, the founder of The Compute Optimist, it’s a matter of historical scale. ‘It really is our generation’s Industrial Revolution, but bigger,’ he tells me. He doesn’t deny the risks, but his bet is that ‘the risk of slowing down is far greater than pushing forward.’”

New friends and followers, ICYMI, I founded @ComputeOptimist earlier this month: analysis, reporting, and the receipts on the technologies poised to drive unprecedented human prosperity—if we let them. Fear about AI + tech sells. I'm building the opposite. Read the manifesto 👇

Without human intervention, the AI-powered robotic surgeon achieved a 100% success rate across 8 cases, completing all surgical tasks. This included identifying and grasping ducts and arteries, placing clips, and making necessary cuts My debut article for @ComputeOptimist 👇

~60% of rural Medicare patients undergoing high-risk surgeries traveled >1 hr for care. AI-powered advances in surgical robotics may be laying the groundwork for better equipping rural areas with specialized surgical capabilities, even w/o a human specialist physically present Read my debut article for @ComputeOptimist 👇

AI is supercharging surgical robotics. In 3 years, a roboticist’s work evolved from following a predetermined surgical plan in a controlled environment to demonstrating adaptive autonomy in executing a complex, critical phase of surgery. Read my debut @ComputeOptimist article

AI is rapidly advancing surgical robotics, but a device capable of adaptive autonomy hasn’t been tested on people yet Just this week, the DOD/W is betting millions on that changing soon, noting that surgical robotics could be a game changer for US soldiers on the battlefield. There, otherwise treatable injuries can turn fatal when specialized surgeons can’t easily reach them. Read my debut @ComputeOptimist article 👇

My first story for @ComputeOptimist drops tomorrow! Hope you'll give it a read.

Periods of transformative technological progress—driven by markets and a robust private sector—have left humanity overwhelmingly better off. Some say "AI is different." This is arbitrary. They said the steam engine was "different" too. History tells us periods like this have turned luxuries, from air travel to automobiles to antibiotics, into normal parts of everyday life. They’ve created not only more jobs in place of those made obsolete, but jobs enabling a far better quality of life. And at this point in the AI revolution, there's no evidence that this time will be different. Read the manifesto 👇