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Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Post by jprete »

Sanzig wrote: post #16
admax88qqq wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If noninvasive mind reading ever becomes practical, we need to recognize the right to refuse a brain scan a universal human right. Additionally, it should be banned from being used for evidence in the courtroom. Unfortunately there will be authoritarian regimes that will use and abuse this type of tech, but we need to take a firm stand against it in liberal democracies at the very least.

That's not sufficient - it needs to be actually banned for any uses resembling employment purposes, because otherwise people will be easily pressured into it by the incentives of businesses who want their employees to be worker bees. Just look at how many businesses try to force people to waive their right to a trial by law as a condition of being a customer!

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Post by WendyTheWillow »

varispeed wrote: post #30
joenot443 wrote: post #7

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.

No, it’s not. Good lord…

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Post by andy99 »

admax88qqq wrote: post #6
notnmeyer wrote: post #3

pretty interesting but with how much current llms get wrong or hallucinate i’d be pretty wary of trusting the output, at least currently. amazing to think of where this could be in 10 or 20 years.

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.

Police is far down the list or realistic concerns.

- insurance discount if you wear this while driving

- remote work offered as a "perk" as long as you wear it

- the "alladvantage ecg helmet" that pays you to wear it around while you're shown advertising

- to augment one of those video interviews where you have to answer questions and a computer screens your behavior

That's all stuff that already exists more or less and much more likely to be the form that the abuse of this technology takes

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Post by MoSattler »

varispeed wrote: post #30
joenot443 wrote: post #7

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.

First use will be for criminal suspects, to "save lives". Then its use slowly expands from there.

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Post by garbagewoman »

varispeed wrote: post #30
joenot443 wrote: post #7

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.

Why are you so certain that’s the future?

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Post by derefr »

joenot443 wrote: post #7

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…

Seems like it could work a lot better still, very quickly, just by merging the trained model with an LLM trained on the language they expect the person to be thinking in. I.e. try to get an equilibrium between the "bottom-up processing" of what the TTS model believes the person "is thinking", and the "top-down processing" of what the grammar model believes the average person "would say next" given all the conversation so far. (Just like a real neocortex!)

Come to think, you could even train the LLM with a corpus of the person's own transcribed conversations, if you've got it. Then it'd be serving almost exactly the function of predicting "what that person in particular would say at this point."

Maybe you could even find some additional EEG-pad locations that could let you read out the electrical consequences of AMPAR vs NMDAR agonism within the brain; determine from that how much the person is currently relying on their own internal top-down speech model vs using their own internal bottom-up processing to form a weird novel statement they've never thought before; and use this info to weight the level of influence the TTS model has vs the LLM on the output.

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Post by arlecks »

ctoth wrote: post #28

"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…

If you're referencing the AI safety discussion, there's obviously the fundamental difference between this and a technology with the potential of autonomous, exponential runaway.

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Post by ShamelessC »

opdahl wrote: post #32

It’s crazy to me that someone has developed a technology that literally reads peoples mind fairly accurately and its just like a semi popular post on Hacker News.

It’s at the top of the front page now fyi

edit: and it’s sliding down again. Your comment will be relevant again shortly ha

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