[QUOTE]Military intelligence analysts spend a lot of time scrutinizing countless images from various sources, such as drones and surveillance systems. An automated program developed by cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Anthony Ries, however, can make the process a lot faster. Ries works for a US Army research facility called the "The MIND (Mission Impact Through Neurotechnology Design) Lab," which has just began testing a program that can interpret brain waves. In simpler words: it can read human minds. During a recent test, he hooked up a soldier to an EEG connected to one of the lab's desktop computers and asked him to look at a series of images on screen flashing at a rate of one per second. Each image falls under one of five categories -- boats, pandas, strawberries, butterflies and chandeliers.
The computer revealed by the end of the experiment that the soldier chose to focus on images that fall under the boat category. How did it know? By taking note of the changes in the subject's brain waves. The soldier produced distinct brain wave patterns whenever he looked at something he deemed "relevant." In time, analysts can use the system to view large images cut up into smaller sections (called chips) to quickly find items of interest.
Ries explains:
[I]Whenever the Soldier or analyst detects something they deem important, it triggers this recognition response. Only those chips that contain a feature that is relevant to the Soldier at the time -- a vehicle, or something out of the ordinary, somebody digging by the side of the road, those sorts of things -- trigger this response of recognizing something important.[/I][/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/07/us-army-mind-lab/[/url]
In definitely not-related news, the total number of Non-Judicial Punishment proceedings is expected to skyrocket in Fiscal Year 2016 :v:
Also, :science101:
So when can we have artificial psychics?
This comes off sounding more like a hobby project than anything else honestly. It's fascinating of course but it's just the surface of what we'll be able to do.
we've known this for a long ass time, they noticed this and did plenty of experiments with certain parts of the brain acting specifically when they saw an image or heard music ect.
So this could essentially be used for things like facial recognition using the human brain to process images. I wouldn't call this truly mind-reading, but it's interesting.
Seems like a fascinating but scary precursor to the tech in Psycho-Pass, no thank you sir.
i always thought the limit to this tech though is that nobody "saves" images exactly the same, so you'd have to calibrate it for each person before you tried
lol it doesn't read minds this is actually already existing technology, you can easily tell when someones focusing on something or activating a major muscle in the body
Whoever comes up with these acronyms must get paid a lot of money because I never suspected MIND to mean this.
[quote]The MIND (Mission Impact Through Neurotechnology Design) Lab[/quote]
[QUOTE=Code3Response;49080357]Whoever comes up with these acronyms must get paid a lot of money because I never suspected MIND to mean this.[/QUOTE]
That's usually how military acronyms are from what I've seen.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;49080287]lol it doesn't read minds this is actually already existing technology, you can easily tell when someones focusing on something or activating a major muscle in the body[/QUOTE]
Estanislao Bachrach, last year, when I started Uni and gave a speech to all of the newcomers, told of a interesting case, in which they used this same technology to communicate in some way with those who were paralysed or almost in a coma. They were asked yes/no questions and depending on the answer, an "area" of their brain would lit up.
this is like barely one step above a polygraph gj us army
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soldier probably couldve just told you he liked boats
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also is the sample size just that one guy or
The only way this can be practical for finding out about something specific would be to have the system actually have sample sources of pictures of every possible thing, including the thing of interest.
For example, if they wanted to find out from a suspect where they hid an object, then they would need to supply the program with pictures including every possible thing that could resemble the place that the suspect could have hid the object in.
Of course the program could then try to hone in on a more specific answer by recognizing the pattern of activity and supplying even more specific pictures within a particular category.
There have been some really interesting technologies created to "read minds"
There is this one thing that scans your brain with fMRI, and they coupled it with a program that over time would learn to interpret the signals in the visual centers of the brain, basically it was able to partially re-create what you are seeing.
if anyone ever creates actual mind reading technology, governments(especially US, china and russia) are going to collectively have an orgasm at the prospect.
[QUOTE=Wizards Court;49081459]if anyone ever creates actual mind reading technology, governments(especially US, china and russia) are going to collectively have an orgasm at the prospect.[/QUOTE]
and then it'll turn out to be a horribly expensive thing to run and maintain, of limited and dubious benefit, run by a bloated institution that has more information than it can process and analyse reliably and quickly
The main thing about this is that all you need to tell the computer to learn what you're thinking.
First you have to capture your idle state as a baseline. Then you have to think of something like a boat and capture the brains state when you are and assign that to boat. You could be lying and say you're thinking of a boat but actually thinking about a car, the computer wouldn't know. Besides that no brains are equal so your idea of a boat will produce a different pattern from another persons idea of a boat.
I don't know about these high end devices but you can get things like emotiv for about $400 usd to try it out yourself. In reality it can be noisy and it takes a bit of time to learn if you want to control stuff on your computer with your mind.
Nerve staplings when, fellow drones?
Here's me thinking it would have been Russia at the forefront with this.
[QUOTE=Fr3ddi3;49080439][IMG]http://attackofthefanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/psycho-760x4281.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
You're that ninja!
Am I the only one that doesnt find this impressive at all?
similar technology has existed for at least a few decades now. This is only really one step removed from a polygraph.
I often wonder how much money is wasted on "novel" ideas in military development rather than improving incrementally on technology that is already proven and works reliably for its intended purpose.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;49081793]and then it'll turn out to be a horribly expensive thing to run and maintain, of limited and dubious benefit, run by a bloated institution that has more information than it can process and analyse reliably and quickly[/QUOTE]
one thing doesn't negate the other, also, that's only until someone makes it efficient of course.
You know, when you live in a world where a guy wearing tin foil has a 50 percent chance of not being crazy, something has gone wrong.
[QUOTE=Wizards Court;49090795]one thing doesn't negate the other, also, that's only until someone makes it efficient of course.[/QUOTE]
It won't be efficient. Even if mind-reading technology as foreseen by science-fiction was possible, they haven't yet bothered to deconstruct it by applying reality to it.
The costs of inventing and developing new technologies only increases year-on-year, and the infrastructure and research necessary for it all would constitute a massive drain on the resources of those governments.
Relying on technology to fix this problem is foolish in itself, since the costs of research and development have been steadily rising for the past century and the limitations of the scientific industries will prove them to be a finite source of solutions for problems.
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;49092077]The same could be said about computers
in the 80's[/QUOTE]
Research and development costs are still rising steadily. It costs far more today to research things and to innovate new solutions and technologies than it did back in the past. The capabilities of computers continue to be improved upon, but at an exponentially increasing cost in terms of manpower and financial resources.
MIND bullets when?
Reminds me of The Men Who Stare at Goats
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