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Scientists Develop Cyborg Interface Algorithm
StCredZero writes "A ZDNet article discusses advances in the translation of brain activity to electronic control being made at MIT. Their approach allows a paralyzed individual to manipulate a prosthetic - but that's not the important advance. 'Other scientists have already done that, and built prototypes for neural brain-to-machine devices that can work for animals or humans. But each team has taken a different approach to the problem, such as developing algorithms for measuring activity in a specific brain region, or measuring them through EEGs vs. optical imaging. MIT said that it has developed a unified algorithm that can work within the parameters of these different approaches. Lakshminarayan "Ram" Srinivasan, lead author of a paper on the subject, said MIT's new graphical models are applicable no matter what measurement technique is used. "We don't need to reinvent a new paradigm for each modality or brain region," he said in a statement.'"
...welcome our future cyborg overlords.
Start a happiness pandemic
I wish I had that kind of creativity. I tried going by the nickname of "Big Dick", but folks just laughed.
I prefer Flambe as apposed flamebait.
Manufactures BrainGate, a device which Slashdot has reported on multiple times in years past. Trades as CYKN or CYKN.OB on the pink sheets. Currently at historical lows. Look into it if you want a nice deal.
Wake me when this is applied to something useful. I'll be first in line to reduce myself to a bloody torso if I can replace all my limbs with robotic replacements. Then I will be your cybernetically enhanced overlord.
Murphy, is that you in there?
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed H
Still, he said, the algorithm isn't perfect, nor the final solution to solving what is a difficult problem.
Lawyer: Did you mean to shoot your wife||husband?
Defendant: I was so mad I may have thought about it but in no way did I consciously shoot him. My arm has a mind of his own
DA: Objection your honor, defendant is saying what amounts to their "neural prosthetic aid that can link an individual's brain activity to the person's intentions; and then translate that intention into movement." that is just not possible.
Laywer: Your honor, we have Slashdot, Groklaw and MIT printouts which show the validity of the defendant's claim
Judge: Sustained
Infiltrated dot Net
Did no one watch Voyager?! This is how the end starts.. First we're all happy people with our little cyborg chips to control our sex bots, then suddenly we take real women and make them sex bots.. and they'd be all like "I love Mr. God man" and be rubbing us, and feeding us grapes.. maybe serving ice cold beer. .. .. ..
Where can I buy these chips??
Anything is solvable with another layer of abstraction.
-USR1
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
From the summary, it sounds like they've invented a brain-layer. (DNRTFA)
Something about MS here...
This is going to feel...a little weird.
"I only speak the truth"
Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
10 FOR I = 1 TO 50 20 WALK 30 IF ROBOT = BUMPINTOSOMETHING THEN GOTO 50 40 NEXT I 50 PRINT "Ouch!"; 60 TURNAROUND 70 GOTO 10
The mouse and keyboard would no longer be needed. You would likely be able to interface with computers much faster as well allowing people to get more work done in a day, but at the possible cost of less motion needed. People with a chip in their head could possibly work from their bed, with just a screen on the ceiling. Advances in robotics will allow robot servants. They already have toy versions of these. Laziness is already a problem, and it will only grow as people have to do less and less. I know it's still a long way in the making, and I can't wait for things like this to become mainstream, but also fear it a little.
Someone save me from this sanity.
For Porn!
Why you think the matrix was born?
Porn porn porn!
Sounds like they adapted the OO concept of abstract classes to neural devices.
Lakshminarayan "Ram" Srinivasan, lead author of a paper on the subject
As in the Long Island Srinivasans?
Gifts for Geeks - Stuff that really matters!
...until we have 14 year olds piloting mecha to save the world. (Okay, the Eva aren't mecha exactly, but that's one of my favorite series.)
... everything you do is automatically considered to be a groundbreaking success worthy of broad media attention regardless of whether it work.
Still, he said, the algorithm isn't perfect, nor the final solution to solving what is a difficult problem.
"the algorithm isn't perfect".. that's no surprise. You would have to decode the atomic functioning of our neural networks for it to come close to being "perfect." And as anyone in neurology can tell you, we are nowhere close to doing so. But the buzzwords are there and so is the MIT name.
And so the matrix is born, where we lie in bed endlessly not moving because we can do it all from there, then we develop our virtual worlds (wait thats already been done)...
then we finalize it by sticking tubes into us, so we dont have to go get food or go to the bathroom.....great...where do i sign up!
"I'm not so bad, once you get to know me"
Braingate is a marvelous device (though companies like Hitachi and Honda have been pursuing noninvasive interfaces which if successful would make it obsolete), but CYKN as a stock has lost 1300% over the years, and the company has lost most of its valuable executives recently as well.
The company is a mess and investing in it may not be wise. It does have a decent portfolio of patents, but the current focus is on the questionable Andara product, not Braingate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_Project
http://www.rense.com/general79/wdx1.htm
How far along are they with the DNA patch that will allow brain cells to interpret and transmit XML?
all of you responding to this thread with that subject line made me YAWN!
Can it get my cyborg to say, "Fuck you, asshole" in an Austrian accent?
In Soviet Borg Cube, cybernetic implants control YOU!
Mind/Machine Interface
The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of
this monstrosity. Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but
meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation
to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds. They are
creating their own private army of demons.
-Pravin Lal
Neural Graphing
I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the
machine, just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake,
and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my
dreams, the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my
consciousness: dark, rigid, cold, alien. Evolution is at work here,
but just what is evolving remains to be seen.
-Pravin Lal
I'm not sure how good the future will necessarily be, caution seems to be in order.
Just wait for Windows Cyborg/Pro with TrulyDirectX 12!
The BSOD becomes the BSOD (Black Shroud of Death) however, which means you really want to test this stuff better.
The problem with quotes on the internet, is that nobody bothers to check their veracity. -- Abraham Lincoln
Oh, please tell me when this is invented. I wanna be the second guy to get it installed (the first guy may or may not make it, I wanna see if he walks away from the procedure).
Anything that let me work from bed would be a godsend. Screw working in your underwear... I'm gonna work nude, while enjoying "extracurricular activities" with my girlfriend.
--
"Move over honey, I can't see the spreadsheet."
You're thinking too small, with brain to computer connection you can go to brain to computer to brain, people in society are already specialized for specific work the way our cells are, humanity can become one huge organism!
Or maybe I've just read too much Sci-Fi.
Welcome our meme spouting underlings.
Simply fascinating. Where did the first two posts go?
Lakshminarayan Srinivasan1*, Uri Tzvi Eden2, Sanjoy K. Mitter3, and Emery N Brown
Brain-driven interfaces depend on estimation procedures to convert neural signals to inputs for prosthetic devices that can assist individuals with severe motor deficits. Previous estimation procedures were developed on an application-specific basis. Here we report a coherent estimation framework that unifies these procedures and motivates new applications of prosthetic devices driven by action potentials, local field potentials (LFP), electrocorticography (ECoG), electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EMG), or optical methods. The brain-driven interface is described as a probabilistic relationship between neural activity and components of a prosthetic device that may take on discrete or continuous values. A new estimation procedure is developed for action potentials, and a corresponding procedure is described for field potentials and optical measurements. We test our framework against dominant approaches in an arm reaching task using simulated traces of ensemble spiking activity from primary motor cortex (MI), and a wheelchair navigation task using simulated traces of EEG-band power. Adaptive filtering is incorporated to demonstrate performance under neuron death and discovery. Finally, we characterize performance under model misspecification using physiologically realistic history dependence in MI spiking. These simulated results predict that the unified framework outperforms previous approaches under various conditions, in the control of position and velocity, based on trajectory and endpoint mean squared errors.
A handsome young cyborg named Ace
Wooed women at every base
But once ladies glanced at
His special enhancement
They vanished with nary a trace.
-- Barracks graffiti, Sparta Command
Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
mount /dev/brain /
rm -rf
Does it run linux users?
i would like to encourage the use of the term Psionics for mind machine interface. Avionics are electronics related to aviation.
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"A ZDNet article discusses advances in the translation of brain activity to electronic control being made at MIT"
Awkward sentence construction makes baby Jeebus cry.
A ZDNet article discusses MIT's advances in the translation of brain activity to electronic control.
See, it's more succinct and direct.
Here are the hints that you are using passive voice and other grammatical goofery: has been, being (verb), were.... Your past tense forms of "to be". Using active and direct verbs. Who did what to whom.
Utilizing the synergization of benchmark e-solutions to pre-workaround action items!
A way to backup my memories to the 4 PetaByte Hard Drive. This way I will NOT miss another Birthday, Anniversary, or Party; And with the hardware, I can get there on time, finally. Dawn, I need this stuff NOW!