Lost me at “AI-powered decoder”.
AI is a meaningless term now. They should have just said algorithm, either that or it’s bullshit.
There should be an indefinite moratorium on this research under the current regime. Way too much potential for abuse.
This research uses a direct computer interface to the brain, a BCI.
Due to the invasiveness of the procedure, I don’t imagine the current administration would find much use for it. Their strongarm and propaganda methods are working well enough for their evil plans.
The procedure is invasive at the moment, but that doesn’t mean it will always be
But it’s in Everyone’s Best Interest! Do you want to hide your thoughts? Why would you want that? Why do you oppose our unbridled access to the deepest recesses of your mind? Are you scared of what we might find? Do not be afraid, we just want to make you better! To bring our Harmony to your mind! To bring you our Peace! You must let us Enlighten you!
How do you imagine the current regime abusing this technology in a way that doesn’t imply they already have complete power over the people they want to abuse?
I think if you’re saying this you probably didn’t understand what is involved in this research.
Just so it’s clear, each subject spent hours training their own AI to recognize words they intentionally produced as “inner voice”. At the end, each trained AI could only recognize those trained words, and only from their trainer.
That’s quite a bit different than an AI that could recognize new words in a completely different person. I think that’s as unlikely as training ChatGPT using only English texts and then expecting it to understand Chinese.
Was there any reported reduction in training time needed for subsequent words?
Just getting a computer to understand anything from the implanted wires is progress, but it’s “spend hours training for each single word” we’re still at a 1970s scifi level of interaction.
Normally words are all trained together, not one after another. Subjects do a monitored task that includes the entire vocabulary list, data from that task is processed extensively off-line, and finally subjects return to test all the vocabulary words.
First they built a silicon cube the size of a toaster with a little switch in it that responded to electrical signals.
Now we have billions to trillions of those in our pockets.
Etc.
My inner monologue: “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”.
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