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Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Post by RobertDeNiro »

pants2 wrote: post #22
chaosmachine wrote: post #10

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.

These are also wet electrodes meaning you need to apply gel to every single one. You’ll notice that the person wearing it is also not blinking or using any facial muscles, as that activity would completely throw off the very weak brain signals.

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Post by dexwiz »

Everyone is this thread immediately went to mind readers as interrogation. But what about introspection? Many forms of teaching and therapy exist because we are incapable of self analyzing in a completely objective way.

Being able to analyze your thought patterns outside your own head could lead to all sorts of improvements. You could find which teaching techniques are actually the most effective. You could objectively find when you are most and least focused. You could pinpoint when anxious thoughts began and their trigger. And best of all, you could do this personally, with a partner, or in a group based on your choice.

Also you can give someone an FMRI as a brain scanning polygraph today. But there are still a ton of questions about it’s legitimacy.

https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Post by derefr »

rvnx wrote: post #9
giancarlostoro wrote: post #2

This is very impressive and useful, and horrifying all at once. I imagine it would help a stroke patient, I also imagine it would give out unfiltered thoughts, which might be troublesome.

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…

> If you have a Neuralink, no problems, you can directly upload a trace of thoughts.

Except that someone with a jailbroken Neuralink could upload a filtered and arbitrarily-modified thought trace, getting ahead of all those plebs. Cyberpunk! :)

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Post by RobertDeNiro »

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.

Anyone familiar with Brain computer interfaces would not be surprised by this article. People have been capturing brain waves for a while and using it for all sorts of experiments. This is just an extension of what has been done before. It’s still not applicable to anything outside of a lab setting.

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Post by notfed »

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…

I'm optimistically going to assume that model training is per-brain, and can't cross over to other brains. Am I wrong? God I hope I'm not wrong.

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Post by ceejayoz »

jprete wrote: post #41
WendyTheWillow wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it’s not. Good lord…

There are already businesses tracking their employees' fitness for insurance purposes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/with-fitness... EDIT: There's also a national legislative proposal to mandate that all cars have a system to monitor their drivers and lock them out on signs of intoxication. https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1053847935/congress-cars-drun...

The fix here is banning these sorts of potentially abusive uses, not hoping the technology itself doesn't develop.

Re: BrainGPT turns thoughts into text

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Post by drdeca »

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…

What does “DWIM” mean in this context? My first thought is “do what I mean”, but I suspect that isn’t what you meant.
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