re: AI reconstructs whatever you see just by reading a brain scan

It seems like this might be able to be used to record dreams. Crazy.

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It seems like this might be able to be used to record dreams. Crazy.

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I think this would be so fascinating.

I also wonder what kinds of implications the refinement of this method will have on things like the criminal justice system and on the study of mental illnesses, i.e. schizophrenia, addiction, bipolar disorder, etc.

Schizophrenics gonna be all like, "I told you they were stealing my thoughts. I've been saying it all along."

Reconstructing an image of what someone is looking at and retrieving images of previous visions are two entirely different animals. I agree it's a leap in technology but the later will likely take a leap across the Grand Canyon to achieve.

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This is actually terrifying.

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I've visited the little known yet one of the biggest "nonprofits" in the world, the Howard Hughes Institute. This was the big program they were beginning when they moved to a new, equally hidden facility, a massive complex dug into the banks of the Potomac that you can't see from the highway where its address is.

This technology is our bleak future.

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Reconstructing an image of what someone is looking at and retrieving images of previous visions are two entirely different animals. I agree it's a leap in technology but the later will likely take a leap across the Grand Canyon to achieve.

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This is a good point, but I bet that it won't take long to make that second leap from reading image recognition to reading original thoughts (at least original visualizations). I wonder what the difference would be in terms of imaging a thought that had no visual counterpart, like internal logic or hearing a song in your head, vs. someone visualizing a tree or a beach while closing their eyes.

Crock of shite!!!! Not 1 pic of tits or a vag.......this is 100% bullshite.

a family member who is in the tech industry was telling us about this a few months ago. he said that they show you an object, and read your brain activity. when they have done it enough times, the computer learns how your brain reacts and can interpolate you brain activity to an image.

in 50 years a deposition will consist of plugging your brain into a computer and downloading what you know.

these days, your wife has to smell your dick after you are "working late." in a few years, she'll plant an iphone in your pillow and get details of your evening.

I wonder what will become more mainstream first...a more refined version of this, or a version of the little lens camera/implanted memory chip combo from that Black Mirror episode "The Entire History of You".