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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I can never quite work out who's scamming who here

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The obvious culprits are the researchers who make preposterous claims in order to get funding. But one can easily imagine a government body having aninterested in investing in a system like this because it serves as a deterrent by giving the impression that they have access to powerful technology, even if it doesn't really exist. And of course magazines like Wired are complicit in the scam because it makes a great story for them. All in all, everyone scores.