This has obvious use cases for people who have various disabilities. That's what excites me the most. For skills related use cases, I wonder if you develop "muscle memory" when an AI is controlling your muscles in the act of performing a skill?
Wow. Researchers just built an AI that can control your body... - it can move your fingers and make you play piano, even if you don’t know the song! A small team at MIT built a project called Human Operator in just 48 hours. A camera sees what you see, an AI model like Claude figures out the movement, and small electrical pads on your wrist send signals to your muscles. Your fingers move, even if you don’t know what to do. They demoed it playing a piano melody, waving, making hand gestures, and helping with drawing movements. It’s still early, rough, and experimental. This is not some perfect “download a skill into your body” technology... yet. The human body is already capable of doing so many things. The problem is that most of us don’t know how to unlock those... There are so many great possible use cases here, especially for people recovering movement after injuries, patients with limited mobility, physical therapy, rehabilitation, etc. Lets just hope no one hacks it... Follow Endrit Restelica for more.
Oh boy. We are now AI meat puppets.
Magic Leap's demos fooled a lot of people too.
Or the Matrix?
There are already gigs to work for AI agents (e.g. training or executing tasks AI can't do physically). And I get the dystopian mood that flares from this MIT project. However, the medical benefits could be a total breakthrough for so many people.