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Humans Can Now Correct Robots With Brainwaves (popularmechanics.com)
Researchers at MIT have built a system that allows robots to be corrected through thought and hand gestures. "The system monitors brain activity, determining if a person has noticed an error in the machine's work," reports Popular Mechanics. "If an error is detected, the system reverts over to human control. From that point, all it takes is a flick of the wrist to get the robot back on the right course." From the report: "This work combining EEG and EMG feedback enables natural human-robot interactions for a broader set of applications than we've been able to do before using only EEG feedback. By including muscle feedback, we can use gestures to command the robot spatially, with much more nuance and specificity," says CSAIL Director Daniela Rus, who supervised the work, in a press statement. EEG refers to electroencephalography, a type of biofeedback which uses real-time displays of brain activity to each self-regulation to the brain. EMG feedback refers to electromyography, which is the recording of the electrical activity of muscle tissue.
Earlier brain recognition systems required people to think in highly specific ways to achieve EEG or EMG recognition. What Rus' team realized is that when the human brain recognizes an error, it automatically releases a very specific signal all on its own. These signals are called error-related potentials (ErrPs). When the robotic system notices an ErrP signal in the human brain, it turns the robot over to human control.
Earlier brain recognition systems required people to think in highly specific ways to achieve EEG or EMG recognition. What Rus' team realized is that when the human brain recognizes an error, it automatically releases a very specific signal all on its own. These signals are called error-related potentials (ErrPs). When the robotic system notices an ErrP signal in the human brain, it turns the robot over to human control.
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Well I programmed in binary, didn't get very far!
Then I programmed a legion of morons with a story and had them do hand gestures to program a robot in binary, the robot ended up just eating and shitting though.
you're thinking "der, duh, doi"
I cant decide which -1 post to do.
How young Donald Trump was slapped and punched until he made his bed
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/donald-trump-fellow-cadet-article-1.3401110
My last conversation with Donald Trump was at the New York Military Academy, where we were both cadets. It was 1964, the year he graduated. We were walking together near the baseball field where, he reminded me, he'd played exceptionally well. He demanded that I tell him the story of one of his greatest games.
"The bases were loaded," I told him. "We were losing by three. You hit the ball just over the third baseman's head. Neither the third baseman nor the left fielder could get to the ball in time. All four of our runs came in; we won the game."
"No," he said. "That's not the way it happened. I want you to remember this: I hit the ball out of the ballpark! Remember that. I hit it out of the ballpark!"
Ballpark? I thought. We were talking about a high school practice field. There was no park to hit a ball out of. And anyway, his hit was a blooper the fielders misplayed.
But I wasn't going to argue with Donald. What was the harm in a little embellishment, if it helped him survive New York Military Academy?
NYMA, the private boarding school where Trump's parents sent him and where mine sent me, could be a brutal place where grown men who were veterans of the real military ruled with threats and force.
Trump's first year, under the command of Major Theodore Dobias, was hellish. Dobias slapped and punched him until he learned to make his bed and polish his shoes — things that Donald, an aggressive little wiseguy, had at first refused to do.
At some point Dobias assumed that he had broken Trump and eased up. More probably, Trump had figured out Dobias' weak points and had begun to exploit them. He flattered the major and became one of his "winners" who was favored with privileges and praised.
As the Academy's unofficial PR man, Dobias even contributed to the Trump myth, eventually telling Rolling Stone that pro scouts vied to sign Trump. As with many things Dobias asserted about Trump, this story may or may not be true.
Besides sports, most of Donald's years at the Academy were unremarkable. In his junior year, he was a supply sergeant in charge of the World War II M1s rifles we all lugged around at parade. But even in this laid-back position he was brash and assertive.
A member of the school band recallsTrump throwing shoes at him and yelling at him to shut up when this young man stood too close to the barracks trumpeting Reveille. Rumor had it that he got away with stuff like this because his father donated large sums to the school.
In his senior year, Donald was promoted to captain of A Company. Unlike other cadet captains who took an interest in the lives of the adolescents in their charge, Trump commanded at a remove. Aside from a determination that cadets in his care would always polish their brass belt buckles and keep the spit-shine on their boots, come evening he'd retreat to his room.
My friend Peter Ticktin, who was an A Company platoon sergeant, emailed me recently to say he saw Trump as someone who kept his thoughts to himself and delegated his responsibilities. "DT put his trust in me," Ticktin wrote . "(Although trust) may be too strong (a word), as I was not a confidant as to his personal thoughts. No one was. He was much to himself. A good guy, but no one's real buddy."
Trump couldn't remain aloof after one of his minions allegedly hazed a younger cadet. Ignoring the unwritten barracks rule that no report to the adult authorities be made, this cadet finked to his parents, who demanded a meeting with the superintendent. It resulted in Donald's removal as captain.
Any other cadet caught in such a scandal would have been busted to a lower rank and exiled to a different barracks. But Donald was transferred, with no loss of rank, to what was probably intended as a desk job. (He called it a promotion.)
While Donald had not succeeded as a manager of young men,
You aren't giving them much to think about.
I'm no lib or con. I'm nihilistic about anything other than 100% unity. Without that we are all lost...so currenly we're beyond fucked. I 100% believe that all civilization is lost in a few decades due to people just not getting along. And money no longer bridging any gaps is the main cause of nobody getting along.
All these people trolling online are just mad that is all they can afford to do online.
K, I'm glad we had this talk. I'm gonna go play vidya gaems.
ErrP signals have been known for decades. What did these people do? Hook up a muscle monitor to (badly) control a robot if a ErrP signal is detected? Is this what the top engineering universities are producing? I thought AI robots were right around the corner...
Damn, I didn't know that robots HAD brainwaves. Maybe we could elect them to Congress to make things a little harder for lobbyists of EVERY flavor.
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
... without brain waves?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Elegy For *BSD
I am a *BSD user
and I try hard to be brave
That is a tall order
*BSD's foot is in the grave.
I tap at my toy keyboard
and whistle a happy tune
but keeping happy's so hard,
*BSD died so soon.
Each day I wake and softly sob
Nightfall finds me crying
Not only am I a zit faced slob
but *BSD is dying.
Let me know when it achieves hands-free orgasms.
Anyone know who this girl is/was? Cutie. I'm trying to figure whether she was in any more scenes not on CDGirls.
I'm eagerly awaiting the time when robots can correct human brainwaves. That's when things get interesting.
This could be useful for self-driving cars that aren't quite Level 5. If the human operator notices a problem (car doesn't seem to be stopping for that box of kittens in the road), dumping control to the human with a "take control now" alert might be better than hoping they decide to take the wheel. Being able to detect ErrP AND using eye-tracking to determine what concerning thing the human is looking at, could allow for human-moderated automated avoidance of that thing, even if the software itself doesn't see it/thinks it's safe to ignore.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
I prefer finger gestures.
Table-ized A.I.
http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/MBF-M1_M1_Astray
Good to see Kira working well at Morgenroete, Inc working on the Natural OS. Eventually, we'll be able to take out that ZAFT scum and claim space for the Earth Alliance!
0th law here we come
Who knew they could have some?
I have seen this movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
A well placed slap up side the head. They really fall in line and lose all thoughts of rebellion!