GoKawiilThe AI companies now train their models to directly interface with Conduit’s latent representations. My encoded thoughts get sent directly to Codex, rather than having to pass through Conduit's decoder model first. That means I easily communicate thoughts that are hard to describe in text, like mental images.
I rarely go band-less when chatting with AIs these days. It's annoying, honestly, to go without. With the neural headband, I feel like I have superhuman powers over my laptop! Without it, I feel like I'm talking with a superpowered alien who's trying its best to be helpful but isn't sure what I want and is scared I'll get mad if it does something I don't want. Ugh.
Conduit continues to iterate on non-invasive read, but we’ve spun up two new efforts: invasive general read, and general write.
Most people are happy to stick with their neural bands, but a good number are excited to get higher fidelity reads via invasive tech.
More interesting is the recent excitement in writes. I feel superhuman in my control over my laptop. But my senses are still merely human. It's like if I could control my arms, but I'd lost all feeling in them. Yeah, I can still see my arms, and it's way better than not having arms, but it's still really odd. Like Ian Waterman. I want to feel what my Codex feels. Now that Conduit does general read, learning to do general write is many OOMs more data efficient.
More importantly, I want to unlock the other applications of write technology. I want to make my brain as efficient and neuroplastic as when I was 18.