U.S. researchers have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) capable of decoding a person’s inner speech with up to 74% accuracy from a vocabulary as large as 125,000 words.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1093888?
U.S. researchers have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) capable of decoding a person’s inner speech with up to 74% accuracy from a vocabulary as large as 125,000 words.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1093888?
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I’m glad this helps people with paralysis, but I can’t help seeing the sci-fi dystopian side of tech like this.
What if some people are forced to have their inner thoughts decoded against their will? It sounds like just the thing some authoritarian thought police would use to root out their enemies.
Does that sound far-fetched? I’m sure if it were suggested as an upgrade to existing lie-detecting polygraph tests, lots of people would approve. Slippery slope.
> The team also found that while attempted speech and inner speech produce similar patterns of neural activity in the motor cortex, they were different enough to be reliably distinguished from each other.
The potential range of application terrifying.
Would this work for people with anauralia?
Or are we immune to Romulan interrogation techniques?
I can’t wait for my dictator to read my thoughts 🙂 I really love him, and now he’ll be able to know that for sure!
No room for unbelievers in this country
So this means torture will be a relic of the past one day, right?
Right!?
As much as I love this tech for the disabled, I think this is a “greater good” type scenario
The first step for being able to enforce laws against thought crime is to be able to read thoughts. This technology must be abandoned
When I read headlines like these, I actually pray for the end of the world
Well, the average person’s vocabulary is 20,000 words I think. I don’t remember where I read that. A well educated person’s vocabulary is 40,000 words. But that is only 74 percent accurate.
*don’t think about anything weird don’t think about anything weird don’t think about anything weird well like what what’s weird? like sex with-DON’T THINK ABOUT ANYTHING WEIRD DON’T THINK ABOUT ANYTHING WEIRD…*
“All right, let’s plug this guy in and see what he doesn’t want us to know.”
*[stares at screen]*
*[frowns at screen]*
“Stop thinking about boobs!!”
Hopefully we are destroyed by an apocalypse before such technology is weaponized to perfectly subjugate humans, which is the first order of any new technology.
What was the movie where Will Smith and Gene Hackman would hang out in the Faraday Cage? This is our future.
In 20 years, these will be mandatory by the UK government. Even thinking will be monitored and enforced.
Looks like freeform speech still isn’t able to be decoded you have to really think about what you’re trying to say before the machine gets it.
We are a couple of false flag attacks or made-up wars away from it being mandatory for every human head.
Fresh dystopian news beyond imagening today, I see
Great for non verbal ( serious, my son is )
Everyone else, not so much.
A lot of good and bad can come from this.
A great time to take up meditation apparently.
The more control you have over your thoughts the less power tech like this will have over you.
Apps in future: “Do you want this App read your thoughts?”
The interesting thing would be to hook this up to someone with ADHD like myself where the brain is a never-ending parade of half finished thoughts.
It might go a long way to understanding us.
Likely it’ll just be used for information extraction. 🙁
This could lead to a big breakthrough in psychology
Awesome!
Anybody know how to scoop out my speech centers with a melon baller?
Asking for a friend.
How soon can we get it? Parkinson’s has pretty much robbed my MIL of her ability to communicate at this point, I’d love it if something like this could help her.
Start training your brain focus…
“Brick wall, brick wall, brick wall…”
“99 bottles of beer on the wall…”
“Four score and seven years ago…”