DARPA's Cortically-Coupled Computer Vision System

BluePariah writes "Wired News has an article on a 'cortically coupled computer vision' system being developed at Columbia University and funded by the ever-curious folks at DARPA. Essentially, it uses the extremely powerful visual recognition ability of the human brain and couples it with a computer's raw processing power to allow a user wearing an EEG cap to filter through scores of digital images at high-speed and pick out something of interest. This has applications in military intelligence, face-recognition, anti-terrorism, and hunting down replicants."

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Commercially viable.

[hanshotfirst]

Blip-Verts!
The TV networks will love this!

pr0n

[kv9]

[...] allow a user wearing an EEG cap to filter through scores of digital images at high-speed and pick out something of interest.

hi-speed pr0n!

Al Gore, where are you?

[Anonymous Coward]

So DARPA's invented something else now. How long before Al Gore goes on CNN to claim he invented this all by himself as well?

In the small print...

[dr_dank]

*Banana clip for your face sold separately

Leave those replicants alone

[krell]

"and hunting down replicants."

Hey, they are only guilty of DNA copyright infringement! It's not like it's an actual crime, bud!

That an insult to the monkeys

[technoextreme]

You will think a million monkeys are out there banging on keyboards.

Hey... At least the monkeys may produce works of Shakespeare. With Digg that is never going to happen.

SETI@brain?

[Rob T Firefly]

How soon until we get distributed-image-glancing teams together, racking up spare brain cycles for high scores and bragging rights?

Motion to revoke geek liscense

[tinkerghost]

Having publicly admitted to having never watched Bladerunner, I motion that AviLazar's geek liscense be revoked ...
Shees, next it's going to be 2001, The Time Machine, and Ice Pirates ... where will it end ...think of the children ...
Wait, wrong argument ...

• where will it end - check
• think of the children - skip
• work of terrorists - skip
• violation of civil rights - check ^H^H - skip
• end of civilization - change civ to cult - check

OK, back....
to allow this affrontery to continue will undoubtably lead to the end of Western Culture as we know it, for without due veneration of our classical arts, we shall indeed be doomed to an eternity of Jerry Springer and Teletubbies. Oh the humanity of it all.

Re:How is this different from security guards?

[a_nonamiss]

Even better, we could breed people specifically to serve this purpose. We could have a whole class of people created in test tubes, deprived of meaningful human contact and trained just to look at thousands of images per minute, all day every day. With banks and banks of these people, we could create a human powered "supercomputer" capable of identifying any person on earth in mere seconds!

Note: This is currently a fictional scenario, but in one hundred years when this is actually going on, someone will stumble upon this post and realize how very forward-thinking I was...

The end of the 'analog hole'?

[Comboman]

Wired News has an article on a 'cortically coupled computer vision' system being developed at Columbia University and funded by the ever-curious folks at DARPA.

Don't tell the MPAA! By feeding digital images directly into the brain of the viewer, they've finally managed to get rid of that nasty analog hole that pirates are always exploiting.