Here is a surprising method of MRI scanning that links up a computer to a massive list of words that reads your brain patterns and turns it in to words with surprising accuracy – without the use of a Derren Brown in the room.
Mind Reading: FMRI – Machine that Reads Your Thoughts – 60 Minutes
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but does the machine have a goatee?
I’m glad I’ll never see this become reliable and cheap enough to be built into a Sharpie and sold to rubbish magicians with no taste.
I knew it! I had a MRI head scan a few days ago, I’m sure the guy knew that I thought he was a muppet.
Ah, another one that can read our mind …. What about talking to eachother man! Just ask, and the brain will answer via that opening in the face .. the oracle will speak …
Too bad I can’t see the movie right now .. really curious to see what nifty technique this was. MRI … computer … list of words .. puts patterns in to words … I hope it is a bit less standard than it sounds .. They probably invented words based on patterns but the patterns might not have been their due to the same words as a start .. reading the word .. pattern in the brain … comparing with list of words … and putting the word out on the other side .. it should be something like that to make it sort of correct .. Then you may only hope that people dont have a brain in the back while reading …
Scientists are obviously too preoccupied with asking whether they can do things to ask whether they should.
Guess it’s time to stop with the tinfoil hat jokes :-\
~the smile safe crackers understand is rendering their steady hand obsolete~
Although I’m generally against restricting scientific reaserch, I find this kind of thing scary. Computers used to take up whole rooms and now you can fit them in your pocket. How long untill this becomes portable? And then how long before the police get to use it to “fight terrorism”? I’m such a cynic.
I hope this is not gonna put Derren out of a job
Ah, here we go again…what to use it for, and we see the power and money hunters in the front first…there is this thing called privacy right and in matters of Political use it should not be allowed (same as dna question or working along to get yourself convicted by the police, that´s only for the fearmongering politics ´´bush-policy´´ so to speak)
There are however many other uses which this technology could be used for and could contribute to our society but that won´t make another kind of profit….ha, this is the ultimate test of strength in descision making and responsible use of technology or power.
Very interesting!
I am always amazed by the progress of science, and partly because it reveals things about Human and nature (here, our brains).
Creepy.
Neuro-marketing —shameful, nauseating.
9:17-9:40—spot on.
And to jack above–well put
Still in baby shoes indeed .. and let’s hope it will not be seen upon for police stuff and such the first time … I’m not all that sure about those not too steady patterns up there in the brain … it’s not a 100% full proof.
wouldn’t worry about DB’s job just yet – no way a machine could be as charming!
This only works for the few pre-observed objects or concepts. You can’t put someone in a scanner and look at their brain and determine that they’re thinking about an object that is not on the pre-tested list!!
Though every brain shares similarities, it is pretty dumb to say things like “this is the pattern for add” because we are all taught differently, we all learn differently, and this affects the way our internal neural networks developed. There is no universal pattern for adding or subtracting, because not everyone understands that concept in the same way. We don’t all follow the same process in our minds when adding, subtracting, thinking, etc.
With a subject that hasn’t already been pre-tested, there is very little chance of acquiring any knowledge besides very common things.
The whole video looks like it’s speeded up slightly…
notnearly as good of show as you put on i’ll give you that. i think it’s much more impressive coming from another human being though and without such basic measures.
does anyone else see the parallel between this and how they’re now experimenting with “AI” robots?