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A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection
- efitz 1y agoThe last thing we need is more people running around with no filter between their inner thoughts and their vocal apparatus.
- LorenDB 1y agoIs there any way to encrypt your brain's traffic and then handshake a decryption key to the implant to ensure that accidental activations merely result in garbage output?
- bitwize 1y agoThe drawback to that is, if you lose the key you have to hack your own brain, then loop it through Jones.
- worthless-trash 1y agoI get that reference.
- Melatonic 1y agoYou could invent your own language - then think in that. Go oldschool
- neonate 1y agohttps://archive.md/8PBtz https://archive.md/8PBtz
- Retr0id 1y agoI wonder what happens if you tell the user not to think of their password.
- petethomas 1y agoI think that is kinda what Tim Robbins does in the opening scenes of Code46 i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaVXASxNrq4#t=7m35s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaVXASxNrq4#t=7m35s
- throwaway8654bb 1y agoThat is like playing The Game (if you know what that is, you just lost)
- Wowfunhappy 1y agoI know what The Game is, but I didn't loose, because I'm not playing. And before you say "one of the rules of The Game is that you're always playing The Game," I don't have to follow the rules of a game I am not playing.
- mrandish 1y agoHaving just gone through it today, I'm imagining getting this from my shiny new neural interface: "Due to unusual account activity, you must change your password. Please enter 12 characters with at least three upper case and four lowercase letters, punctuation, two UTF-16 and one unprintable ANSI character. Error: You may not use any password you've ever used (or imagined) previously. Please try again."
- HappMacDonald 1y agohttps://neal.fun/password-game/ https://neal.fun/password-game/
- tsumnia 1y agoNew College Courses in "Critical Thinking", but they really mean "think of a number between 1 and 10"
- sudobash1 1y ago> When a participant imagined the password ‘Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang’ (the name of an English-language children’s novel) the BCI recognized it with an accuracy of more than 98%. I wonder how difficult having a conversation about that novel (or film) would be. I imagine you would accidentally start saying your thoughts out loud.
- pvtmert 1y agoyou could set your password something like "hey siri", which essentially is a keyword to wake siri up. not often but sometimes, siri wakes up on it's own. i guess people were concerned at early times, but nowadays it's just _another bug_ in the software. I do not see passphrase (i think the passphrase is a better word for this feature) as a big issue at the moment.
- antegamisou 1y ago[flagged]
- Melatonic 1y agoThis is awesome - when I first read the headline I totally expected something different. The user has a password to start or stop the BCI from decoding what they are thinking - this way they have control over what is said out loud or translated. Seems like a no brainer.
- jilles 1y agoIt very much is a brainer
- antegamisou 1y agoSo it's still not unsettling to you they came up with something that is actually capable of reading your very private thoughts. You're aware the potentially secondary password protection isn't what made this feasible, aren't you.
- Muromec 1y agoSo... How fast it will start being used to read thoughts nonconsensually? Military and "law enforcement" always wanted something that isn't torture but gets the information out of people.
- musicale 1y agoI assume that's a rhetorical question.
- Gooblebrai 1y agoNot anywhere fast taking into account that it requires invasive surgery of the microelectrodes
- inemesitaffia 1y agoYou think that's going to stop the CIA if they plan to kill you after anyway?
- antegamisou 1y ago[flagged]
- Muromec 1y agoPlease, be nice. It's 2025 and you can write "Retard" with a capital R nowdays
- arresin 1y agoWhy with a capital R?
- antegamisou 1y agoCarefully re-read the parent comment, I never wrote what you've accused me of.
- polytely 1y ago[flagged]
- IFC_LLC 1y agoOkay, I'll be honest, this looks very finicky. I've tried to understand the premise of this article, but it all look like just a bunch of random facts and promises, none of which could be traced or confirmed. I can't tell 100% that the text was machine-generated. I won't be too amazed to find out that it was. But there is no technology explaining how this thing works.
- a2128 1y agoDid you see the study linked in the references section? https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00681-6 https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00681-6
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- can16358p 1y agoTBH 74% accuracy is quite impressive for a device that "reads thought sentences".
- randcraw 1y agoAnd I'm sure it will improve as the electrode placement and NN is optimized. Accuracy also may improve if the speaker can learn to slow their 'speech' and perhaps add brief gaps between words. I wonder if trying to enunciate distinctly would help? Its potential to recognize such a large range of words is also encouraging. That implies the signal is quite rich yet deconvolvable.
- can16358p 1y agoAgreed. It's fascinating to think about (no pun intended) where this could go, but also I can't keep myself imagining a world where this tech is ubiquitous and everyone's wearing those casually and it's all "cloud" connected and how it can be weaponized against users by governments and TLAs.