Australian researchers have achieved 40% accuracy with a non-invasive head cap that can decode silent thoughts and turn them into text.
Portable, non-invasive, mind-reading AI turns thoughts into text
I'm guessing we need some laws pretty quick to stop this being used in police interviews?
That's DEFINITELY where this will go, and not a single politician will fight it, knowing they'll be exempt from the rules for thee.
Does it work on people with no internal monologue?
That is a very good question and may help trace where the monologue 'sounds' in the brain. It would also be interesting if this were done on sign-language speakers.
The mental pathway from reading to idea to utterance goes through several portions of the brain:
One interesting thing that suggests it would work was where the author stated i) it was better for verbs than nouns and ii) it would often pick a similar, related word rather than the actual one being read.
This suggests that (at least part of) what is being detected is the semantic idea rather than the phoneme encoding or the muscle rehearsal portions of the brain.
Usually with these technologies, they just straight up fail on the minority of the population that's weird in any way. You can breath a bit easier.
The technology could aid communication for people who are unable to speak due to illness or injury, including stroke or paralysis. It could also enable seamless communication between humans and machines, such as the operation of a bionic arm or robot.
This is great, but for the rest of us it also means it can be a way to have a conversation with someone else without needing to look at a screen or speak out loud.
I wonder how this research compares to research on subvocalization. When ChatGPT was announced last year one of my first thoughts was that the technology could create an enormous leap in subvocalization technology where sensors on your neck could detect your inner voice and output it to text. Subvocalization seems much more precise than reading brain waves for this type of use case.
I don’t wanna read, but someone confirm they did more than just predict between a small set of words?
I’ve seen claims like this before, and then upon further reading it was something like 40% accurate at telling the difference between “yes” and “no” (ok that might be a slight exaggeration)
I wish I could have just lived earlier in time and not seen how shit humanity gets going forward. How long until we're living in Minority Report?
Would be a massive help for the differently abled.
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