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DARPA's Cortically-Coupled Computer Vision System

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the eharmony-should-get-right-on-this dept.

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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  1. pr0n by kv9 · · Score: 4, Funny

    [...] 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!

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  2. In the small print... by dr_dank · · Score: 4, Funny

    *Banana clip for your face sold separately

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  3. Leave those replicants alone by krell · · Score: 4, Funny

    "and hunting down replicants."

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

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  4. That an insult to the monkeys by technoextreme · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.
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  5. SETI@brain? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  6. Re:How is this different from security guards? by a_nonamiss · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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