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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.
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
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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
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
I'll bite your knees off!
...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.)
Any PHB knows that the real research engineers strive to enable knowledge-based decision making based on real-time information by implementing an enterprise content management system.