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Two Heads Are Better Than One For Brain-Computer Interfaces
FatLittleMonkey writes "My mind to your mind... my thoughts to your thoughts... Researchers at the University of Essex have shown that combining the output from two non-invasive 'brain-computer interfaces,' computer-interpreted EEG signals, led to a much clearer signal of the subjects' intention than the output from a single subject. To test this idea, they had two subjects try to steer a simulated space-ship at a target planet, by thinking of one of eight possible directions. While a single user could achieve 67% accuracy, this jumped to 90% when two minds were combined. Researchers believe the technique also compensates for individual lapses in attention, and thus may have applications in real-world space missions."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ZcqwvQbas
If I'm thinking it, you're probably all thinking it too:
with the addition of another brain it became "crowd intelligence" or "crowd sourced" and is now sufficiently buzzword compliant.
They should outsource it to India!
At the price of one British they will have much more accuracy from 10 Indians!
I think they just proved that 0.33*0.33 = 0.10.
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I saw a TV program that showed electrodes connected to one person. That person was able to move an avatar around a 3D environment. Sure doesn't seem like they have come very far...
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
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I got to the chocolate box before you, that's why the hard ones have teeth marks.
If you were to research multiple people and how they think about the actions and how it translates on screen, it could lead to better algorithms that could be used to learn the device to your type of thinking.
The more people doing it together at once (sounds so lewd), the better the outcome since it would lead to quicker results of "do action, action done correctly, see resulting brainwaves of success".
The whole do static actions and being given a pat on the back is too solid and cold, it requires dealing with more than one thought at once.
Hopefully this research goes further since it would lead to far better BCIs.
The thing we have to remember is there is no such thing as a standard human. But there are standards of humans. Learning from as many people as possible will make the device as foolproof as possible.
Then I can hands-free browse and put my hands under the covers and be comfy when it is cold. You thought I was going to type something else there, didn't you? Oh you dirty people!
I didn't read the article but I watched the Pacific rim trailer.
While a single user could achieve 67% accuracy, this jumped to 90% when two minds were combined.
Meanwhile, a lone monkey with an hour's training, a penchant for bananas, and a joystick achieved 99% accuracy.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Finally, the giant robots in Pacific Rim make some sense... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2vKz7WnU83E#t=61s
Of course they would have to weigh this against the benefits of giving the rovers better ai for moving from place to place.
This would only be a surprise if people would all use their brain differently. On this level, they do not. No surprise here.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Even educated fleas do it. Let's do it; let's form a hive mind.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
9 Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:
10 If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.
11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?
12 Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
[NIV]
Source: BibleGateway.com, Ecclesiastes 4, Holy Bible, New International Version
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
http://www.universiteitgroningen.nl/fmns-research/theobio/events/_pdf/ma_eanatureneuro06.pdf
... didn't Zaphod Beeblebrox think like that too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaphod_Beeblebrox
tells us that Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes works best if the two channels/ two brains are spiking with a Poisson distribution.
Talking about bable fish
Artificial intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act like the ones in the movies.
Or are both pilots going to be texting and surfing for pr0n with the assumption that the other one is taking control?
"It must have been a computer glitch which caused us to run out of fuel and crash into the Atlantic on our flight from Houston to Toledo."
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It's not relevant to this verse and I don't think it's in the Bible at all, but some Christians find it spiritually helpful to think of marriage as a 3-way intimate relationship, with God being the 3rd, or should I say, 1st, party.
Personally, I think that such ideas work well as long as the two merely-mortal parties in the marriage are in complete agreement on this, but I'm not about to tell someone "if you don't think this way, you aren't a Christian" or "your husband or wife thinks this way, you should too, if you don't, you aren't a good Christian."
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
common sense tells me that 2 people can do the work of 3 where as 1 can only do 1...if your thoughts affect reality then 2 peoples thoughts about getting it done are going to do more..idk cool stuff..
That two antenna's are like 1 larger (more sensitive) antenna.
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