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'Brain-to-Text' Interface Types Thoughts of Epileptic Patients
Jason Koebler writes with a link to Motherboard's article about research from the Schalk Lab of Albany, New York, where researchers "have just demonstrated for the first time that it's possible to turn a person's thoughts into a legible phrase using what they're calling a "brain-to-text" interface," writing "It's still still the early days of this technology—electrodes had to be placed directly on the brain and the 'dictionary' of phrases was limited. Still, brainwaves of thought patterns were turned into text at a rate much better than chance."
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According to TFA they could hook this up to anybody. It was just that epilepsy patients were having invasive surgery done anyway.
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Anyone who had done this earns the right to dance around Kevin Warwick singing 'I'm more cyborg than you are' before ordering him to stop showing off to the public and get back to doing proper science.
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This is no troll. This is a danger of this technology.
It is both a danger and a promise of the technology. It can be used for brain-to-text, but also for other "mind-reading" tasks. A criminal suspect can be shown photos of the crime scene, or photos of the victim or other people known to be involved, and it is likely that it can detect whether the suspect recognizes the scene or person. This could be used to exonerate innocent people, but it could also be used as a tool of repressive authoritarianism to detect thought-crime.
"Better than chance" gave me the context frame. Consider a spectrum: At one end we have highly abstract thought, at the other we have base emotion: hunger, anticipation, contentment, curiosity, etc. which frankly ain't shit to deduce. When exhibited like this, an EEG might as well be writing "FEAR" in bold block letters.
It's probably not that shitty. Once the appropriate code is written, it can probably recognize "I desire an apple. Tomorrow." and print it out. It might be able to recognize a person thinking "blue plus yellow makes green" and write that in words, but I wonder if it has the accuracy to recognize "three plus four makes seven".
This is truly incredible what they have accomplished! I was sure when I read the headline that this was going to be another typical case of modern day Slashdot headline madness. I was shocked when I read both of.the attached articles to discover this really does sound like the first step in creating brain to computer interfaces that used imagined speech to control. Very, very cool. Rather surprised at the lack of comments on this one. Maybe everyone assumed it was BS and didn't even bother clicking?
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