"Brain Reading" Device Can Predict What People See

[razors edge]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080305-...

Ker Than
for National Geographic News
March 5, 2008

A new computer program can match brain activity with visual images and even predict what people are seeing, a study has shown.

The work raises the possibility that one day computers could "read" a person's brain to digitally re-create memories, dreams, or imaginings.

Previous attempts to decode vision in this way could only extract simple information about images, such as their physical orientation, and could not identify images that participants were seeing for the first time.

"Our technique overcomes this limitation, and we show that we can perform identification for novel images," said study team member Kendrick Kay of the University of California, Berkeley.

The new computer model is described in today's issue of the journal Nature.



Well, look at the bright side, maybe we can stop torturing people in a few decades, if the lack of torture itself doesn't give away national security secrets.

[madrchsod]

1. "the prisoner " tv series developed this technology in 1968

wait a minute that was`t real? dam i knew i should`t have watched that series high..

[lonestarnot]

2. Well have you been to GDP yet?

:toast:

[TahitiNut]

10. There's no detectable brain activity there. None.

Zip. Nada. :shrug:

[lonestarnot]

11. LOL.

In the GDP? or elsewhere?

[madrchsod]

12. no

the shit storm at "latest breaking news" was enough to put me off going over to gd/p

[lonestarnot]

15. There's a shitstorm in LBN? I better have a look see.

What's it about?

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Along with strange women at a cocktail party.

[dweller]

4. "Women run through my mind all the time,

they don't dare walk".


can't remember the source of the quote, but it well applies.
dp

on edit: a flaked crust of rust just kicked off a cog in turning that jumped sparked a sleeping synapse, and i remembered ... it was Maurice Gibb of the BeeGees. Go figure.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. ERm.. I don't want people to see in my mind. I can think of so many ways this technology

can be abused.

[razors edge]

6. We have ways of making you talk.

Or we could just skip it and rerun some old black and white b movie clips spliced together to prove you a danger to society while we sit back and make fun of the stupid jury deciding your case like we were on Mystery Science theater 3000.

Its all good, if you are the one in control.

[lonestarnot]

13. No worries here. I can confuse myself w/o much difficulty.

:toast:

[blues90]

7. Keep the thing away from me .

Oh , I'll be dead by then , hopefully .

[razors edge]

8. Scary s**t. n/t

[The Straight Story]

9. Cool - they can see naked ladies in my brain

damned perverts :)

[pepperbear]

14. the link in the OP doesn't work. here's the correct link.....

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080305-brain-scan.html