Here's one way you probably didn't see AI tech being used.

New Yorker Keith Thomas suffered a debilitating injury at 41 years old after diving into a shallow pool three years ago. But thanks to new medical technology, including the use of AI, Thomas is regaining some of his movement.

(Chad) Bouton, (of the Institute of Bioelectric Medicine) led the clinical study designed to help people like Thomas overcome his paralysis. In a 15-hour surgery last March, doctors implanted five microchips in Thomas' brain. The computer technology, with the help of A.I., reconnected Thomas' brain with his spinal cord and the rest of his body.

"We actually had to have Keith awake during a small portion of the surgery. He felt his thumb, he felt his finger," Dr. Ashesh Mehta, Thomas' surgeon, said.

His doctors say an electronic bridge was able to bypass Thomas' injury.

The doctors used microchips to reconnect neurons that had been severed in his spinal column and neck due to the injury.

Watch Thomas's reaction after the surgery in this local story:

If this kind of success can be replicated and improved upon, it brings hope to the 100 million paralytics around the world.

Of course, being Neo, I have to wonder how human-computer augmentation tech might be used for more nefarious purposes...