I hope someone will do a similar experiment with visualization (imagination) only. Some people are better at this than others so maybe focus on those people who easily create vivid images in their mind's eye.
Or maybe text.
MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-to-Image with 1 Hour of Data
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Re: MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-to-Image with 1 Hour of Data
#12So here is a question: what would happen if this process faced a person who was specifically hostile to it? Could you "trick" the process by intensely thinking of, for instance, a yellow ball while viewing a cat picture, as one example?
I assume the two would be discernible from each other in your brain data to a sufficiently advanced AI. One is your visual stream and one is your visual imagination. On top of that would be signatures of intention to deceive, which are also detectable in theory :)
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#13Why does anyone think this type of scientific inquiry should be pursued at all.
Same reason we study and do research in biology and fields in general. Understanding more about biology, whether in neuroscience or elsewhere, is the fundamental backbone of medicine. Do you want to live in a world where we don't pursue scientific research into things because they seem scary to you? Does it not concern you us building AI smarter than humans, while knowing little to nothing about our own brains? Before we start fading in relevance, we ought to understand how our own bodies (and minds) work! So in fact I think the exact opposite. We should be doing much more work in understanding our own biology (as long as it's ethical).
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#14So here is a question: what would happen if this process faced a person who was specifically hostile to it? Could you "trick" the process by intensely thinking of, for instance, a yellow ball while viewing a cat picture, as one example?
I assume the two would be discernible from each other in your brain data to a sufficiently advanced AI. One is your visual stream and one is your visual imagination. On top of that would be signatures of intention to deceive, which are also detectable in theory :)
All your brainwaves are belong to us.
Re: MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-to-Image with 1 Hour of Data
#15Why does anyone think this type of scientific inquiry should be pursued at all.
Same reason we study and do research in biology and fields in general. Understanding more about biology, whether in neuroscience or elsewhere, is the fundamental backbone of medicine. Do you want to live in a world where we don't pursue scientific research into things because they seem scary to you? Does it not concern you us building AI smarter than humans, while knowing little to nothing about our own brains? Befor…
I’d be fine living in a world where nobody bothered to invent non-consensual mind reading tech. Or, if that’s too much to ask, where we invent everything else that needs inventing first.
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#16As someone with damage to my visual cortex with a very specific effect I’m very curious what this would come up with for me. Not something useful on its own, but more understanding means more possibilities for treatments.
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#17Why does anyone think this type of scientific inquiry should be pursued at all.
I definitely believe that this technology will get misused. But I expect the researchers are thinking of helpful medical applications. Perhaps to aid people with locked-in syndrome?
Edit: More interestingly, it would be amazing if this could show us someone’s perception rather than what they’re looking at. That would be tremendously useful to therapists.
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#18Looking at the result (figure 4), the model looks more like a good classifier than an image retriever, the generated images have the same subject as the original but are very different, even the colors of the subjects.
Exactly. The whole image generation bit, at this stage, is noise. But you could easily describe what someone is looking at. Even that is very interesting. And perhaps this will scale up to get high quality, accurate, outputs.
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#19Why does anyone think this type of scientific inquiry should be pursued at all.
Cause it has huge medical implications?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same reason we study and do research in biology and fields in general. Understanding more about biology, whether in neuroscience or elsewhere, is the fundamental backbone of medicine. Do you want to live in a world where we don't pursue scientific research into things because they seem scary to you? Does it not concern you us building AI smarter than humans, while knowing little to nothing about our own brains? Befor…
I’d be fine living in a world where nobody bothered to invent non-consensual mind reading tech. Or, if that’s too much to ask, where we invent everything else that needs inventing first.
It's not more dangerous than non-consensual body killing tech.