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Robot Interprets, Plays Back Dreams
foobarx writes "Digital artists have created a humanoid robot which uses brainwave activity recorded during sleep to playback an interpretation of your dreams. The artists, Brendan Burns and Fernando Orellana used machine learning to find patterns in the brainwaves and then matched these patterns to dreams which they remembered having. Others have noted the possible hazards of this new technology."
This could be embarrassing if it reenacts my wet dreams of Eva Longoria...Ummm my wife I mean, ya my wife!
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'll pass on this one...
I watched the robot video and if it were me, that robot would be humping its hips making the energizer bunny look like a slackard!
I prefer Flambe as apposed flamebait.
I swear to god, I don't think your sister is more beautiful, it was just a dream.
I completely disagree. Dream interpretation has many uses for people other than the one having the dream.
For example, they can be an excellent reason to make fun of your friends.
And what if there is music involved?
Is the RIAA gonna sue you for infringement?
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
can the robot do my work for me?
Bender: [murmuring in his sleep] Kill all humans, kill all humans, must kill all...
Fry: Bender, wake up!
Bender: I was having the most wonderful dream. I think you were in it.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
A novel idea (I think) to record brainwaves and try to match them against recordings of known dreams.
We can all think of things that 'might' go wrong, or that could be misused, but aside from that I can see a whole lot of 'my dream robot/interpreter/$500 mystic told me
- I should not date you anymore
- rice-a-roni causes cancer
- my dog/cat saw your children playing doctor/nurses
- President Bush is a reptile
Yes, I can forsee some crazy shit coming out of this technology
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Worse than that:
FRY: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
LEELA: Of course.
FRY: But, how is that possible?
PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg.
[He shows an egg and injects it with liquid from a syringe until the egg explodes.]
PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH: Although, in reality, it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
LEELA: Didn't you have ads in the twentieth century?
FRY: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio... and in magazines... and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree.
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In a lesser-published trial, the robot was recorded fishing out a credit card, leaving the lab, and running off to the mall to buy a pair of Lightspeed Briefs.
Put the batteries in the other way round.. I mean duh, it isn't exactly brain surgery.
which is totally what she said
Wife? What is this 'wife' you speak of?
World reknowned roboticist Dr. Thomas Light of Light Labs, Inc. has announced today that this dream-reenacting robot, commonly known as "Dream Man", is not a threat to the safety of the free world. "Dream Man", so Light, "is one of [Dr.] Albert [Wily]'s more stupid creations. He fits right in with Plant Man and Charge Man."
"Reverse engineering Dream Man's weapon is definitely something I look forward to. Albert's stupid ideas never fail to crack me up", added Light.
Light also announced that he will be sending the autonomous weapon of mass destruction codenamed "Mega Man" to destroy Dream Man along with seven other so called "Robot Masters", which form the latest iteration in the ongoing Light/Wily feud that has been waged since Wily's theft of several robot prototypes from Light Labs in 199X.
The United Nations Security Council has announced that it fully supports Light, even though like usual it has no idea about what's actually going on or why the world is supposed to be in danger. They do, however, support anyone who stands up to would-be world dominators, especially ones they perceive as zany.
Meanwhile, Light has drawn considerable criticism over discarding the weapon data from the last encounter with Wily's Robot Masters. During the conflicts, Light reverse-engineers the weapons used by the Robot Masters in order to provide Mega Man with additional firepower. However, as soon as Wily is defeated, the new weapons are summarily discarded in what Light's detractors see as a display of shortsightedness.
"Seriously", so Japanese Minister of Defense Shigeru Ishiba, "even though Dream Man doesn't look very threatening, he might prove difficult to defeat with just a puny plasma cannon. A few Crash bombs or a burst of Atomic Fire would probably do him in easily, but as Light insists on throwing away perfectly good weapon data Rockman [as the Japanese call Mega Man] is going to have a bit of a fight ahead of him."
Ishiba added that Japan would be happy to provide cover fire or E-tanks if needed.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
What? You might want to work on "lucid wakefulness" for a while.
http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF160-The_Dreamcatcher3000.gif
Oh i'm totally fucked then....
My dreams usually have the sound track of Prince in the background
Coming to you live from another dimension.