Intel Making Computers That Will Read Your Mind
Those if you with dirty minds should probably open the private browsing window first.
While Intel is still concentrating on making chips that'll continue to push the performance limits of our desktops and laptops, there are researchers at the chip company looking at the next step ahead – reading our minds.
Dean Pomerleau, a senior researcher at Intel Laboratories, is part of a team developing a computer that's able to 'read' the human brain of what word it is thinking about.
"The computer uses a form of 20 questions to narrow down what the word is," Pomerleau explained to the Telegraph. "So a noun with a physical property such as spade, which you dig with, produces activity in the motor cortex of the brain, as this is the area that controls physical movements. A food related word like apple, however, produces activity in those parts of the brain related to hunger. So the computer can infer attributes to each word being thought about and this lets the computer zero down on what the word is pretty quickly."
Intel hopes that this will eventually lead to people being able to write emails and perform web searches just by thinking.
While we're still lusting after the best laser mice and mechanical keyboards, Intel's CTO Justin Ratner said, "Mind reading is the ultimate user interface. There will be concerns about privacy with this sort of thing and we will have to overcome them. What is clear though is that humans are not restricted any more to just using keyboards and mice."
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"concerns about privacy"
Bingo. THIS is why no one except the army will use it...
Ok then, so why are they not making their CPU's Cheaper?
20 or 30 years from now this may be possible.. but i dont see this happening mainstream anytime soon.. and i dont really see this as a good thing..
THE MATRIX anyone?
or maybe this is a skynet pet project?
SKYNET
I can see many uses for this technology, and it will be supported by many. For those concerned about privacy, there is always the option of taking off the mind reading helmet and putting on the tin foil helmet just in case. But there are more types of people around computers than people who can type +70 wpm. What about those without both hands or all fingers? If properly done, this will be awesome. Speech recognition will be a thing of the past. And I am very curious to use it in fact.
uh oh....my telepathic computer will download porn all day long...yours will too, but it will probably be gay midget porn
I can just picture being on the computer with the girl friend and your ex pops into your head and it spells out her name. Oopsy. Forget external forces stealing your ideas what about the ideas you don't want other people to see verbalized. Typing an email to a boss. The report(I want a twinkie) is attached(like a stage 5 clinger)below" Tragic!
Why not use this picture? Homer's Brain
My $10 IQ 20 questions game already is eerily close to getting it right every time. They need to spend million/billions on this?
Not good.....
I'm sure google already has a team working on how to beam ads straight in to your brain with this.
THE MATRIX anyone?or maybe this is a skynet pet project?
SkyTrix! The 2 will merge and completely dominate us
What the HELL, every time I turn this mind reading PC on, all I get is porn web sites. Must be broken.
I can see it now, writing an email longer than 2 minutes and suddenly boobs and other various sexual words randomly pop up
not good!
May open up a whole new world for those that need prosthetics.
im sure some folks wont "mind"
Did Google pay for the research?! Think beer and you have 20 popups in a nanosecound about beer. No THX to adds (Beer on the other hand.... =))
What's the point of knowing precisely in which part of the brain the activity takes place? 99.9% of the reading will come from in the part of the brain that directs blood flow in the mid-section of my body!
Even if this works at 1% of it's potential due to current technlogical limitations it still would be important for people with serious disabilities. Even though I'm not disabled myself I recognize the importance of said research in providing hope and accessibility to people that lead such challenging lives.
There is a full generation that will be getting "Device not found" errors
This is cool, but for a tech to catch on you gotta hit the early adopters - aka gamer enthusiasts. Meaning that instead of reading words, they need to refine on the OCZ NIA device and allow for mind-controlled gaming environments. MMORPGs may be too complex, but FPS games with simple commands like directions, turning, firing, jumping should be a walk in the park. Do it! Do it now!
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Not good!
It would be nice for programmers: you think of an idea for a class, method, or whatever, and it writes the code for you. Then all you have to do is try to understand it, and fix the bugs
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they can't even make a nice GPU , will they make this ?
Think SQL injection attack
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This is a fantastic idea, and I am excited to propel interaction 10 fold with a device interaction like this. As someone mentioned, people with physical disabilities would do great with this. Thumbs-up.
Aside from the obvious security risks this will bring as soon as its completely developed and can be done remote the biggest problem would be all the jobs that we will lose. Any one can think way faster then they can type and a lot of employees at a lot of different functions already lost their jobs to machines. Seriously an accounting firm where i am hired from time to time has 12 people just to type digits from a sheet in to a database. It would make sense that with this technology 11 of them will lose their job.
Ok then, so why are they not making their CPU's Cheaper?
Because they don't need to. Intel cpu's sell like hotcakes at current pricing.
Aside from the obvious security risks this will bring as soon as its completely developed and can be done remote the biggest problem would be all the jobs that we will lose. Any one can think way faster then they can type and a lot of employees at a lot of different functions already lost their jobs to machines. Seriously an accounting firm where i am hired from time to time has 12 people just to type digits from a sheet in to a database. It would make sense that with this technology 11 of them will lose their job.
Why is this a bad thing? Maybe it will force people to develop skills beyond that of a particularly industrious monkey.
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