This is simply very cool. Sounds like science fiction, but it's not.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/22/twitter.locked.in/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/22/twitter.locked.in/index.html
Just... WOW.
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That's fantastic. I don't think I can begin to comprehend how it works, but yeah: wow.
This is wonderful. All those people who have been trapped inside their paralyzed bodies will be able to communicate with their family and friends... and us! 
WOW! the future is now!
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How soon until employers attach this to their workers and start firing people for thinking the wrong thoughts? How soon until the government requires all citizens to wear one and arresting people for having UnAmerican thoughts?
Amazing technology, but the potential here is the utter end of the privacy of thought
Amazing technology, but the potential here is the utter end of the privacy of thought
''UnAmerican thoughts?'' You mean like speaking out about your differing opinions then that of the OBAMA administration?
Read the article. You have to make a conscious effort to post to Twitter, it doesn't post your every thought. I'm sure there will be steps taken to stop any invasion of privacy, if companies try to implement this.
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I think the GOV'MENT would be more then likely to implement this then companies.
And this is based on what?
It is currently legal for your employer to:
Record your phone calls
Read your e-mail
Video tape you
Record your keystrokes
...among other things. It is illegal for the government to do these things. So your theory is that mind reading will NOT be like phone tapping or e-mail reading?
Interesting, if slightly odd interpretation.
The GOV'MENT does a LOT of things behind closed doors.
The GOV'MENT does a LOT of things behind closed doors.
I think you need to brush up on the term "more likely." it doesn't mean "equally likely" which is how you seem to be using it.
Excuse me then. But lets get back to what I said. I do belive the Gov'ment will do this to it's people.
I have to admit this is a bit scary. I can see it metamorphing into something much worse. Look how far the phone has gone in 130 years, Plus technology now seems to be moving at a breakneck pace. I can see this device getting smaller and more sophisticated in the next ten years and people modifying it to grab other peoples thoughts rather than just letters they are concentrating on but maybe full sentences.(Yes sometimes I think with pictures of words running through my head. It could happen. And we though cell phone cameras were gonna be a big impediment to privacy.
This is nothing more than a classification problem on electrical impulses. Classifiers are getter better, but electrical impulse detection is still pretty noisy even with direct skin contact. I wouldn't worry about "thoughts through the air" for quite some time.
^I hope your right.
I recall years ago (maybe a dozen?) reading a science article where researchers (I think in Europe) had done something like using alpha brain waves to turn on & off a light switch circuit from across the room.
I heard the same thing.
Discriminative classifiers need cleaner and cleaner data inputs, the more classes you add to them. On/off is a lot easier than A-Z. And they can't tell you anything about classes you don't train them on.
Generative models might be slightly more concerning, but they're harder to train well by nature.
Generative models might be slightly more concerning, but they're harder to train well by nature.
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