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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Completely back-to-front

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TFA:

Researchers at Columbia University are combining the processing power of the human brain with computer vision to develop a novel device that will allow people to search through images ten times faster than they can on their own.

So, basically completely the opposite to the /. description, to whit:

it uses the extremely powerful visual recognition ability of the human brain and couples it with a computer's raw processing power

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I picked that up within 5 seconds of clicking the link. Sort it out, editors.