Just wait until this is used on suspects to try and get the “truth” out of them and then it’s discovered that the accuracy is bad. Wouldn’t surprise me if many an innocent person is sent to jail because of this mind reading AI.
New 'Mind-Reading' AI Translates Thoughts Directly From Brainwaves – Without Implants
Submitted 10 months ago by Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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onlinepersona@programming.dev 10 months ago
CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I just used this comment commercially.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 10 months ago
You shall be hearing from my lawyer. Please provide name and address.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We really do have to get through the Black Mirror sci-fi before we can have the Star Trek stuff, huh.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lots of scary shit will have to be banned. I’m always surprised when I watch a new Star Trek episode and they describe some new terrifying technology that is outlawed.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nutrek is so grim. Where’s the optimism?
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language
badbytes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Spent over 15yrs studying brain activity in EEG MRI and MEG. Seems like a far stretch, given our ability to accurately access signals. Brain is complicated, and signals like EEG are very poor reflector of specific signals. Like when you view city street lights at night. Pretty, but what can you decipher.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
this is a 3 percent improvement on the prior standard
A giant leap for a man, one small step for mankind…
General_Effort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
With further refinement, DeWave could help stroke and paralysis patients communicate and make it easier for people to direct machines like bionic arms or robots.
The article doesn’t even hint at any use in a justice system. There’s nothing to suggest that this could even in principle be used as a lie detector.
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 10 months ago
dont worry its bogus technology they have had this for decades supposedly now they added Ai and will spend the new funding on strippers and hoes
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I was determined never to do meth again because I’m not sure I’d survive the psychotic paranoia again.
This news makes me 110% certain I’ll never do meth again.
TheWonderfool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ignoring the technology itself, I found it interesting that it has a lot less trouble with verbs compared to nouns (tho the article does not give much information about it).
Would it mean that humans keeps actions very separate (even if similar), while keeping things and concepts more clustered together? Is being precise on what is happening much more important than clearly specifying the subject and object of the action?
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’d wager that humans have much more neural hardware relating to verbs, since they relate to the things you yourself do over longer periods. Let’s say I clean my bathroom, or my kitchen, or something else - the actions I take are very similar, and my head has to keep my body doing the right thing for long stretches of time. It’s much harder to clean the wrong thing than to clean the thing wrong.
Belgdore@lemm.ee 10 months ago
There are fewer verbs than nouns I’m sure our brains prioritize accordingly
Matriks404@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So is it only useful for people who silently read? Because I don’t see any use case if so, it is not like we think using words, lol.
Someone64@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Many people do think using words through their inner monologue.
phubarr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is definitely progress, but we need to keep in mind that the particular language a person speaks can significantly influence how a person’s brain works.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
AI like this will likely need to be trained from person to person.
Unlearned9545@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Im sure this will onnnnllyyy ever be used for good and not evil. Surely.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Later on they find the accuracy is about as good as the whole facial recognition fiasco
A_A@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Eventually this will streamline justice systems : freeing innocents and punishing culprits. At least it will be a powerful tool, just like DNA analysis before it and digital prints were also groundbreaking.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Or more likely we will arrest people for thought crimes.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Which tbh even if it did work to create a “utopia” imo a utopia by force is dystopian by nature.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 10 months ago
“No, doc, I came here in a time machine, that you built!”
gregorum@lemm.ee 10 months ago
anyone remember the movie Strange Days?
fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Let me guess…
RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yep.
themurphy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
When the number og test subjects is that low, it almost feels like the 3% improvement might as well be a coincidence.
HubertManne@kbin.social 10 months ago
their goal is 90%. I could see it if the ai was given a long enough time with feedback on what you are doing. Which I think would be tough with stroke patients. Great for folks that would like to control a pc with thoughts but not get cut open though.
merc@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Was the AI trained on the text that the people were reading?
hansl@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How much accuracy would you be happy with? Anything more than 25% in my book is better than anyone else. And the tech is just getting better.
How much would it need to be at to beat a polygraph?
sapient_cogbag@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Wonder how it interacts with neurodivergent people too :p