DARPA Unveils System Using Human Brains For Computer Vision

MrSeb writes with news about our coming cybernetic overlords. From the article: "After more than four years of research, DARPA has created a system that successfully combines soldiers, EEG brainwave scanners, 120-megapixel cameras, and multiple computers running cognitive visual processing algorithms into a cybernetic hivemind. Called the Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System (CT2WS), it will be used in a combat setting to significantly improve the U.S. Army's threat detection capabilities. There are two discrete parts to the system: The 120-megapixel camera, which is tripod-mounted and looks over the battlefield; and the computer system, where a soldier sits in front of a computer monitor with an EEG strapped to his head, looking at images captured by the camera, wedding out false threats. In testing, the 120-megapixel camera, combined with the computer vision algorithms, generated 810 false alarms per hour; with a human operator strapped into the EEG, that drops down to just five false alarms per hour. The human brain is surprisingly fast, too: According to DARPA, CT2WS displays 10 images per second to the human operator — and yet that doesn't seem to affect accuracy."

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Or perhaps a more efficient solution?

[Catbeller]

How about this: we stop fucking invading and attempting to conquer other countries with giant oil fields? You see, that way, we don't have to develop blahblah battlefield tactical blahblah, don't have to take care of over thirty thousand men and women with their limbs and sex organs blown off, and don't have to excise from our collective consciousness the fact we've slaughtered, tortured and imprisoned over a hundred thousand innocent people for no damned reason whatsoever while the actual perp lived in Pakistan for over ten fucking years in total peace. Just saying.