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Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people’s minds

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Re: Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people’s minds

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“We take very seriously the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and have worked to avoid that,” Tang said. “We want to make sure people only use these types of technologies when they want to and that it helps them.”

This will obviously be abused decades from now. Why wouldn’t authoritarians listen in on brains that have trained transformer models based on forced textual consumption over years.

Re: Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people’s minds

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“We take very seriously the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and have worked to avoid that,” Tang said. “We want to make sure people only use these types of technologies when they want to and that it helps them.” This will obviously be abused decades from now. Why wouldn’t authoritarians listen in on brains that have trained transformer models based on forced textual consumption over years.

Just like we pay people money to sing for us, we'll pay people money to dream for us. The best dreamers and imagineers will sell their distilled thoughts for the rest of us to consume.

We'll have an indie scene. We'll share them on internet platforms. Remix them.

There's so much more good that will come from this than bad.

Re: Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people’s minds

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“We take very seriously the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and have worked to avoid that,” Tang said. “We want to make sure people only use these types of technologies when they want to and that it helps them.” This will obviously be abused decades from now. Why wouldn’t authoritarians listen in on brains that have trained transformer models based on forced textual consumption over years.

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I'd take this over being water boarded.

no, you wouldn't.

you know where the water is coming from. you know it's water.

oh. they don't need the fancy machine to interface. it's remote. they reply. you don't know where it comes from, either. or who.

trust me. you don't want to know what it's like.

Re: Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people’s minds

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post #5

“We take very seriously the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and have worked to avoid that,” Tang said. “We want to make sure people only use these types of technologies when they want to and that it helps them.” This will obviously be abused decades from now. Why wouldn’t authoritarians listen in on brains that have trained transformer models based on forced textual consumption over years.

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You can't just leave it at that and not get on a throwaway and whistleblow.

Re: Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people’s minds

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post #4

“We take very seriously the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and have worked to avoid that,” Tang said. “We want to make sure people only use these types of technologies when they want to and that it helps them.” This will obviously be abused decades from now. Why wouldn’t authoritarians listen in on brains that have trained transformer models based on forced textual consumption over years.

Just like we pay people money to sing for us, we'll pay people money to dream for us. The best dreamers and imagineers will sell their distilled thoughts for the rest of us to consume. We'll have an indie scene. We'll share them on internet platforms. Remix them. There's so much more good that will come from this than bad.

Yeah, like get this, when the world is turning to shit because of climate change and we're forced to live underground like rats, we can all collectively hallucinate what the world used to be like. It'll be grand. You'll be hallucinating, I'll be hallucinating, the AI'll be hallucinating too.

"His older work was much better," ChatGPT will proclaim. "... what older work?"

Re: Brain activity decoder can reveal stories in people’s minds

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I'd take this over being water boarded.

no, you wouldn't. you know where the water is coming from. you know it's water. oh. they don't need the fancy machine to interface. it's remote. they reply. you don't know where it comes from, either. or who. trust me. you don't want to know what it's like.

What are you even talking about? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01304-9

It's fMRI, there's nothing remote about it.

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