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We are there already. You are looking at an example of mind-reading. But it's an early version of mind-reading that requires expensive fMRI machines to get da
by cs702 6y ago
We are there already.
You are looking at an example of mind-reading.
But it's an early version of mind-reading that requires expensive fMRI machines to get data from the brain and uses deep learning models that don't work that well... yet. There are other early examples of mind-reading, e.g., Neuralink implants.
From here on, it's all about improving the technology -- making it better, faster, cheaper, smaller, etc.
- bckr 6y agoThat doesn't answer the question of how far we are from possible abuses. I'd say we need to start talking now about the legal aspects of this tech, rather than rely on governments to figure it out when it's already being abused
- cs702 6y agoYes, I agree, though I'm less worried about use by criminals than about use by large technology-driven companies and bureaucracies that are already abusing their ability to "read minds indirectly" by collecting behavioral data. I shudder to think what those organizations could do if they start getting data directly from people's brains.
- emptyparadise 6y agoHopefully I'll have a bullet pick my brain apart before a Facebook Neuralink Headset™ or a Palantir FREETHINK standard issue FBI neural interface kit get to do it.