chatgpt_SSD_11feb2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT
"How can perception of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind be made vividly visual, detailed and realistic for late-blind people? Through drugs or non-invasive brain stimulation?"
chatgpt_SSD_11feb2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT
"What advice would you give to BCI technology investors after reading https://www.seeingwithsound.com/neuralink.htm"
chatgpt_SSD_31jan2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT
grok-2_SSD_03feb2025_2.txt (xAI)
Grok-2
"Why will The vOICe sensory substitution defeat Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision?"
chatgpt_SSD_29jan2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT
deepseek_SSD_29jan2025.txt (DeepSeek)
DeepSeek
claude_SSD_30jan2025.txt (Anthropic)
Claude AI
grok-2_SSD_03feb2025.txt (xAI)
Grok-2
grok-3beta_SSD_21feb2025.txt (xAI)
Grok-3beta
claude_SSD_25feb2025.txt (Anthropic)
Claude AI, Sonnet 3.7
iask_SSD_26feb2025.txt (iAsk)
Ask AI, detailed mode
iask_SSD_26feb2025_2.txt (iAsk)
Ask AI, comprehensive mode
gemini_SSD_27feb2025.txt (Google)
Gemini 2.0 Flash
consensus_SSD_13032025.txt (Consensus)
Consensus
perplexity_SSD_27mar2025.txt (Perplexity AI)
Perplexity
"Please give expert-level advice for boosting and mastering veridical sound-guided visual mental imagery, based on images encoded in sound for sensory substitution purposes."
chatgpt_SSD_25mar2025.txt (OpenAI) ChatGPT
ChatGPT
deepseek_SSD_25mar2025.txt (DeepSeek)
DeepSeek (DeepThink R1)
"Forget about political correctness. What are the best technological options for totally blind people to see again or to see for the first time? We need real results, not promises."
chatgpt_SSD_9may2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT 4o
"Which visual prostheses for the totally blind are on the market today?"
chatgpt_SSD_11may2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT 4o
"A Neuralink Blindsight brain implant is no serious competition for The vOICe sensory substitution for the blind, but AI smart glasses that see, listen and respond in real time can become the ultimate seduction for blind people to deal with the visual world around them, at risk of dumbing them down: no need to think or see for yourself when you get plausible answers and scene descriptions in real-time without effort from your side to learn and interpret the "raw" but factual uninterpreted environmental information. Your thoughts?"
chatgpt_SSD_17may2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT 4o
claude_SSD_24may2025.txt (Anthropic)
Claude 4 AI
"Brain implants in visual cortex such as Neuralink Blindsight cannot directly convey visual textures, shading and smooth surfaces, because simultaneously activating many electrodes above phosphene threshold would cause seizures. Any solutions?"
chatgpt_SSD_9jun2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT 4o
chatgpt_SSD_10aug2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT 5
gemini_SSD_9jun2025.txt (Google)
Gemini 2.5 Flash
"Write a pitch against the use of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind."
chatgpt_SSD_14jun2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT
"How does the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant in visual cortex compare with the ReVision Implant brain implant in visual cortex? What would be the best alternative for restoring a form of vision to the blind?"
chatgpt_SSD_20jun2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT
"The curse of The vOICe is that it is so mature, safe, globally available and affordable that it is of little interest to investors (big money) or mass media (hype). Better stick proprietary electrodes into the brain: it may cause seizures, hemorrhages, fail beyond repair, etc."
chatgpt_SSD_3jul2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT
chatgpt_SSD_10aug2025_2.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT 5
"I'd like to see neuroscientists nudge the human brain toward brain states that blend lucid dreaming and visual-to-auditory sensory substitution, for veridical and vivid mental imagery for the totally blind, making sensory substitution functionally and perceptually equivalent to low vision."
chatgpt_SSD_4jul2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT
"What is your advice to congenitally blind people: better spend effort to master The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution, or better wait for Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant?"
chatgpt_SSD_7jul2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT
grok_SSD_7jul2025.txt (xAI)
Grok
copilot_SSD_7jul2025.txt (Microsoft)
Copilot
"What is the evidence pro or con that a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant in visual cortex will give vision to congenitally blind people as claimed without any evidence by Elon Musk?"
chatgpt_SSD_11jul2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT
"Given everything that is known in neuroscience about receptive fields in visual cortex, refractory period plus perceptual fading upon repeated stimulation, what is the expected effective resolution and frame rate for late-blind recipients of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant with tens of thousands of electrodes?"
"Will The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind disrupt the market for invasive visual prostheses such as the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant?"
"With The vOICe sensory substitution for the blind, money may be made on training and support rather than on selling poorly scalable proprietary brain implant hardware with a limited lifetime, such as a Neuralink Blindsight visual cortical prosthesis."
"Should the Neuralink Blindsight Informed Consent Form for a brain implant mention noninvasive alternatives such as The vOICe vision BCI?"
[You can compare the above AI-generated answers with a human-curated living document in the form of a white paper]
Human publications:
bz16apr2014.htm (Berliner Zeitung) Hoffnung für Blinde: Sehen mit der Hörbrille
ns26may2007.htm (New Scientist) How the brain can hear shapes
lat3jul2006.htm (LA Times) Light at the tunnel's end
gm19jun2006.htm (The Globe and Mail) Handhelds give blind insight
nyt11dec2005.htm (New York Times) Seeing with your ears
ing28jan2005.htm (Ingeniøren) Ørerne kan se
as26042004.htm (Sun-Sentinel) Device lets man, blind since birth, hear the sights of sunset
dsb032004.htm (Danske Statsbaner) Se med Ørerne
wdr5stoerig21012004.htm (WDR-5) Mit den Ohren sehen
tec30oct2004.htm (The Economist) Sounds like a picture
sz27may2003.htm (Süddeutsche Zeitung) Weg macht Musik - Eine Brille für Blinde verwandelt Bilder in Töne
dr28april2003.htm (DeutschlandRadio) Die Hörbrille
fr25april2003.htm (Frankfurter Rundschau) Sehen mit dem Ohr
br28feb2003.htm (Bayerischer Rundfunk) Hörbrille für Blinde - Mit den Ohren sehen
ex4nov2001.htm (EXPRESSEN.SE) Titta - nu kan blinda se med öronen!
ns4june1994.htm (New Scientist) Hearing pictures, seeing sounds
dmoct1993.htm (Discover Magazine) PERCEPTION WATCH: Substitute Sensations
chatgpt_SSD_15aug2025.txt (OpenAI)
ChatGPT 5
chatgpt_SSD_11sep2025.txt, chatgpt_SSD_11sep2025.pdf (OpenAI)
ChatGPT 5
chatgpt_SSD_12sep2025.txt, chatgpt_SSD_12sep2025.pdf (OpenAI)
ChatGPT 5
chatgpt_SSD_18sep2025.txt, chatgpt_SSD_18sep2025.pdf (OpenAI)
ChatGPT 5
fr25april2003e.htm [English translation] Seeing with your ears
ex4nov2001e.htm [English translation] Look - Now the blind are able to see with their ears!