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First use will be for criminal suspects, to "save lives". Then its use slowly expands from there.
"For the children" is the first excuse usually.
"To fight terrorism" usually is the second.
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#192I did a PhD in brain-computer interfaces, including EEG and implanted electrodes. BCI research to a big extent focuses on helping paralyzed individuals regain communication. Unfortunately, EEG doesn’t provide sufficient signal-to-noise ratio to support good communication speeds outside of the lab with Faraday cages and days/weeks of de-noising including removing eye-movement artifacts in the recordings. This is a phy…
...This seems really, really confidently dismissing a new technology as impossible, which of course this forum loves (b/c GPT). This very paper seems like pretty damn strong evidence that prehaps the signal-to-noise ratio of EEG might be coming down as we get better algorithms.
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#194Ground 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…
Guys Figure 1 is not real results, it's an illustration of the "goal" of the paper. The real results are in Table 3. And are much worse.
Why is it such a "pattern" in these brain-computer papers that the authors keep making wild clickbait claims. Last year it was the DishBrain paper, which caused a lot of reactions, as it referred to the tiny system as "sentient" (https://hal.science/hal-04012408)
This year it is the "Brainoware" which is claimed to do speech recognition , and now this.
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Recently, a Swiss-French team made the communication between the brain and the legs possible, and the device looked relatively mature. I think patient had nerves damaged in the vertebral column. What do you think about it ? Looked like a promising development. https://actu.epfl.ch/news/thought-controlled-walking-again-a...
Not OP, but Ttat article's use of the word "implant" implies a much more invasive device, which means a way better signal. Additionally, the output, while still complex, is far from the level of decoding of thought presented here. Thus, while still impressive, it is less of a leap from existing technology, and much more within the realm of what we know is very much possible.
Yes, there is a part that is under the skull, if I understand it correctly ("at the surface of the cortex"). It claims to be the first success in the world, so it is indeed impressive!
https://youtu.be/6Ee3kZIW5fk
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What’s your thoughts of Elon’s NeuraLink? Also, do you have an opinion on whether good AI algorithms (like in the article) can help filter out or parse a lot of the noise?
It was a little bundle of what looked like thin, glisteningly blue threads, lying in a shallow bowl; a net, like something you'd put on the end of a stick and go fishing for little fish in a stream. She tried to pick it up; it was impossibly slinky and the material slipped through her fingers like oil; the holes in the net were just too small to put a finger-tip through. Eventually she had to tip the bowl up and pour…
Excession, by Iain M. Banks.
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#197I did a PhD in brain-computer interfaces, including EEG and implanted electrodes. BCI research to a big extent focuses on helping paralyzed individuals regain communication. Unfortunately, EEG doesn’t provide sufficient signal-to-noise ratio to support good communication speeds outside of the lab with Faraday cages and days/weeks of de-noising including removing eye-movement artifacts in the recordings. This is a phy…
What’s your thoughts of Elon’s NeuraLink? Also, do you have an opinion on whether good AI algorithms (like in the article) can help filter out or parse a lot of the noise?
The problem with using AI to filter and denoise is that the things we clearly know are unwanted noise are more quickly removed through other means (I can run the fully automated part of processing EEG data in under an hour with my code). The laborious part is quality control related to more subjective things that research is still figuring out what is important.
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> Being able to analyze your thought patterns outside your own head could lead to all sorts of improvements. Typing in a journal text file for 15 minutes every morning is already a thing... and it's free.
I found it completely useless in my therapy seasons. These trains of thoughts are more like hallucination than real thoughts, because you think different at writing than during the day. I’m not even sure if keeping a diary makes you understand yourself better or just become more coherent with your delusions.
> you think different at writing than during the day
This might not be everybody. I don't feel that way.
> keeping a diary makes you understand yourself better or just become more coherent with your delusions
That might be true, but once they're coherent are they still delusions? I call those plans.
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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.
> and read someone's thoughts *accurately*
Sadly accuracy has not been a big concern historically of polygraphs and much of forensic "science".