'The first mind-written tweet': Startup creates inclusive technology to 'control a computer with your mind'

Une start-up marseillaise a réussi l’exploit de développer une technologie qui permet de contrôler un ordinateur par la pensée. Illustration Pixabay

It’s a revolution, and it’s French. The Marseille start-up Inclusive Brain has developed a technology that allows you to control a computer with your mind. Explanations.

"French pride", rejoices Emmanuel Macron this May 31, by publishing on his X account, formerly twitter, which he presents as "the first tweet in history written and published solely by thought".

A sentence worthy of a science fiction film, and yet, a very real feat, and French to boot, since we owe it to the Marseille start-up Inclusive Brains. She developed the technology called Prometheus, which allows you to control a computer with your mind.

It is thanks to this technology, accompanied by an exoskeleton, that a woman suffering from a physical disability was able to carry the Olympic flame during its passage through the Phocaean city at the beginning of May.

A data-fed AI neurophysiological

The aim of this technology, accessible to all, is also to allow people who have lost the use of their limbs to regain contact with the outside world."Being able to control a computer with your mind, your eyes or by blinking or clenching your fists will change the lives of many paralyzed people because it will allow them to communicate with the world", indicates the start-up in a press release.

How such technology works ? "We train our AI models with different types of neurophysiological data such as brain waves, facial muscles, eye movements or heartbeat. This is the only way to truly enable machines and digital environments to adapt to the uniqueness of each user and how they feel in real time", the press release further indicates.

A headset on your head to control the cursor

As for the tweet, posted Friday May 31, it was written on the occasion of a public demonstration in Geneva as part of the "AI for good& ;quot;, of the United Nations, recalls the Huffington Post. With a helmet on his head, the demonstrator only needed his thoughts to control the cursor which allowed the message to be written.

A technology reminiscent of Neuralink, Elon Musk's company, which recently made headlines after the demonstration of a quadriplegic man playing chess with his mind.