Let me guess…
- not very accurate
- needs to be trained on an individuals brain.
Although DeWave only achieved just over 40 percent accuracy based on one of two sets of metrics in experiments conducted by Lin and colleagues, this is a 3 percent improvement on the prior standard for thought translation from EEG recordings.
The Australian researchers who developed the technology, called DeWave, tested the process using data from more than two dozen subjects. Participants read silently while wearing a cap that recorded their brain waves via electroencephalogram (EEG) and decoded them into text.
Yep.
When the number og test subjects is that low, it almost feels like the 3% improvement might as well be a coincidence.
This is wonderful news, it means it’s good enough to operate my lights with a thought but not good enough to be admissable in court as evidence
their goal is 90%. I could see it if the ai was given a long enough time with feedback on what you are doing. Which I think would be tough with stroke patients. Great for folks that would like to control a pc with thoughts but not get cut open though.
Participants read silently while wearing a cap that recorded their brain waves via electroencephalogram (EEG) and decoded them into text.
Was the AI trained on the text that the people were reading?
I’m not sure if this was your intent, but your comment gave me a good giggle as I recalled this article: An AI bot performed insider trading and deceived its users after deciding helping a company was worth the risk.
Not to personify an LLM, but in my (fantastical) imagining, the AI knew the desired outcome, and that complete success was unbelievable. So it fudged things to be 3% improved.
Yikes. Now that I’m overthinking it - that idea is only funny because it’s currently improbable.
… I hope people pleasing is never a consideration for any ‘AI’ that does scientific, engineering, or economic work.
Wonder how it interacts with neurodivergent people too :p
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We really do have to get through the Black Mirror sci-fi before we can have the Star Trek stuff, huh.
Lots of scary shit will have to be banned. I’m always surprised when I watch a new Star Trek episode and they describe some new terrifying technology that is outlawed.
Nutrek is so grim. Where’s the optimism?
Just wait until this is used on suspects to try and get the “truth” out of them and then it’s discovered that the accuracy is bad. Wouldn’t surprise me if many an innocent person is sent to jail because of this mind reading AI.
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The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language
this is a 3 percent improvement on the prior standard
A giant leap for a man, one small step for mankind…
So is it only useful for people who silently read? Because I don’t see any use case if so, it is not like we think using words, lol.
“No, doc, I came here in a time machine, that you built!”
anyone remember the movie Strange Days? Or the movie Brainstorm?
Eventually this will streamline justice systems : freeing innocents and punishing culprits. At least it will be a powerful tool, just like DNA analysis before it and digital prints were also groundbreaking.
Or more likely we will arrest people for thought crimes.
Which tbh even if it did work to create a “utopia,” imo a utopia by force is dystopian by nature.
