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Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Aside from all the horrific implications, this enables something very cool: two-way telepathic communication. Think your message, think "send", hear responses via earbud. With voice cloning, you even get the message in the sender's voice. Totally silent and invisible to outside observers.

Be careful what you wish for. The unintended consequences of this are going to exceed imagination.

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

#22

Aside from all the horrific implications, this enables something very cool: two-way telepathic communication. Think your message, think "send", hear responses via earbud. With voice cloning, you even get the message in the sender's voice. Totally silent and invisible to outside observers.

Invisible except for the 72 EEG probes strapped to your head.

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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I agree sadly :( You're right, this is why in year 2200, your job application is going to be fast-tracked by analyzing your thoughts directly. If you have a Neuralink, no problems, you can directly upload a trace of thoughts. In case you have wrong thoughts, don't worry, we have rehabilitation school, which can alter your state of mind. Don't forget to be happy, it's forbidden to be sad. Also, this is read-only for n…

When your bosses require you to wear one of these while working from home.

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Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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post #22

Aside from all the horrific implications, this enables something very cool: two-way telepathic communication. Think your message, think "send", hear responses via earbud. With voice cloning, you even get the message in the sender's voice. Totally silent and invisible to outside observers.

Invisible except for the 72 EEG probes strapped to your head.

For now. Modern antennas are amazing. Maybe you could beamform from a lower number of devices.

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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"Seriously, what were these researchers thinking? This 'BrainGPT' thing is a disaster waiting to happen. Ching-Ten Lin and his team of potential civilization destroyers at the University of Technology Sydney might be patting themselves on the back for this, but did they stop to think about the real-world implications? We're talking about reading thoughts—this isn't sci-fi, it's real, and it's terrifying. Where's the line? Today it's translating thoughts for communication, tomorrow it could be involuntary mind-reading. This could end privacy as we know it. We need to slam the brakes on this, and fast. It's not just irresponsible; it's playing with fire, and we're all at risk of getting burned.

Like, accurate brain readers are right under DWIM guns in the pantheon of things thou mustn't build!

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Combine hallucinations with police adopting this as the new polygraph and this could take a pretty bad turn. Cool tech though, lots of positive applications too.

I wonder if a subject has to train it first, such as by reading a bunch of prompts while trying to imagine them. Or, are our linguistic neural networks all very similar? If the former is true, it would at least be a bit harder to work as a polygraph. You wouldn't be able to just strap on the helmet and read someone's thoughts accurately.

I wonder if you could develop techniques to combat it, like a psychic nail in the shoe. Or maybe an actual nail. How useful is a mind reader when all it reads is “PAIN!”

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Ground Truth: Bob attended the University of Texas at Austin where he graduated, Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies in 1973, taking only two and a half years to complete his work, and obtaining generally excel- lent grades. Predict: was the University of California at Austin in where he studied in Beta Kappa in a degree of degree in history American Studies in 1975. and a one classes a…

Well you are going to have a brain scanning device directly linked to your social credit score.

That's the future.

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