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- czeman, on 12/26/2008, -2/+43I'll be in a lot of trouble. A LOT of trouble. It'll be like that time you went to a porn site and couldn't stop all the popups.
- hbyrne, on 12/26/2008, -2/+41Really interesting piece, and well worth watching.
- zephc, on 12/26/2008, -1/+26Finally, i can stop using my hands like these were baby's toys. Seriously, I've been waiting for many years for this kind of tech to arrive.
Also, might I add, is there anything hotter than a female Australian accent? - orangederange, on 12/26/2008, -0/+25They're offering their software development kit online on their website for free: http://emotiv.com/corporate/1_0/1_1.htm
It's looks like the headset has a good chance of getting out there to the mass market. - megaton, on 12/26/2008, -3/+25It's important to understand that what they've accomplished is not much more than binary processing: thinking about something or not thinking about something. It's not as complex as thinking, "I want to shoot that guy on that ledge with my rocket launcher." It's more like "arm rocket launcher. shoot." You're still going to have to control movement, so don't expect the mouse to go anywhere anytime soon.
It's also unclear how contextual distractions can/will muck up the signal they're processing. We have enough of a hard time interpreting speech, let alone a brain full of constantly changing thoughts. The signals from your brain are blurred when you're not just focusing on a single, disembodied cube, but rather the entire world of a video game. How does it separate contexts? Is it even possible without invasive implants? Can it make the distinction between, "I want to shoot this guy," and, "I want to shoot that guy." When playing a game, the two thoughts are usually intertwined -- you know you have to shoot both of them.
Yes, I think a lot of this can be overcome with proper training, but I just don't think it's getting enough information through non-invasive means. And that's not to mention the sheer amount of artificial intelligence that would have to be developed to make heads or tails of the intricacies of the signals, to a degree that is entirely unprecedented.
I'm not sure we're close to a popular implementation of "mind reading", let alone a singularity. - Nwsamurai, on 12/26/2008, -0/+20It looks pretty harmless to me.
On a completely unrelated note, does anyone know where I might find Sarah Conner? - restlessdesign, on 12/26/2008, -3/+21Resistance is futile.
- SevenTwo, on 12/26/2008, -1/+17I'd hit it...with my MIND.
- Paulorific, on 12/26/2008, -2/+18Imagine how cool it would be to play an RTS using this thing. Mega-cool.
- yayster, on 12/26/2008, -1/+17I believe that I have a crush on Tan Le.
- inactive, on 12/26/2008, -3/+17hasn't singularity been upon us for some time now?
- Paulorific, on 12/26/2008, -1/+14Still, you don't bury *****.
- untitlednet, on 12/26/2008, -2/+15And so it has begun...
- GMH24, on 12/26/2008, -4/+16Last time I checked, machines were still relatively stupid. AI isn't going anywhere until Intelligence can be defined mathematically. People don't realize that AI is a math problem, not an engineering one.
- Florian, on 12/26/2008, -1/+12Australian accent.
- nickycakes, on 12/26/2008, -2/+12Just what we need...less physical activity while playing video games.
- mike23w, on 12/26/2008, -4/+14Dugg for asian chick with a british accent.
- superkeer, on 12/26/2008, -0/+10Not quite.
When death becomes an "option," then we'll know we're just about there. - Paulorific, on 12/26/2008, -2/+11Who are these people burying *****?
- edwinjose, on 12/26/2008, -0/+9May the force be with us all..
I can't wait to edit text and play games with my thoughts. - spyderveloce, on 12/26/2008, -1/+9She is so hawt!
- rif42, on 12/26/2008, -0/+8And it works really well. I was just thinking about downloading it, then it turns out the download had already started ;-).
- statrick, on 12/26/2008, -0/+8the next Nintendo will use this tech i bet
- SystemError51, on 12/26/2008, -0/+8Wii Think.
- mogglas, on 12/26/2008, -0/+8Amazing, she said it was going to be available in months? Please please please don't be so very expensive!
- Rememberthe0511, on 12/26/2008, -0/+7I would only ever let linux read my mind.
- bagboyrebel, on 12/26/2008, -1/+8It's like the anti-wii.
- Godlike, on 12/26/2008, -0/+6This is using trick of the mind to interface with a computer, the thing does not 'read' your mind. This is nothing but a keyboard, except instead of a switch behind a letter it is using magnetic resonance to detect a change in neural activity.
The only reason it works is because we know ahead of time what result we will induce from whatever input we inject, we just have to replicate the same mechanisms each time.
If it 'read' your mind, it would be able to tell what you wanted without calibration. - PeppermintPig, on 12/26/2008, -0/+6More abstract singularity raving?? Interfacing the human mind with a computer is full of complexities. Appreciably deep interfacing has its limits, and this is not dissimilar to the problems in building a quantum computer.
- SMFB, on 12/26/2008, -0/+6Is their anything hotter than a girl who hunts kangaroo's?
With her Mind!..... - inactive, on 12/26/2008, -4/+10THAT CHICK IS SO ***** HOT!!
SHE HAS A EXTREMELY SEXY VOICE OMG!!! - Jaleho, on 12/26/2008, -2/+8Suddenly this scene doesn't seem so far fetched:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M32miOBJJk - rheaume, on 12/26/2008, -2/+8Hot woman, super smart, amazing accent, great subject matter, dugg the ***** up
- WriterSD, on 12/26/2008, -0/+5Wow! That's really interesting. Thanks for the link!
- KixEvilCereal, on 12/26/2008, -0/+5Imagine how cool it would be if they built an internet browser that responded to this thing. I would love to scroll and surf with my mind and I feel like it would be really easy to do. Simple buttons, simple commands.
Especially if they added voice recognition and you could search or type in words by speaking them. Including Ctrl+F searches.
Or if the mouse followed your eye movement and you could think to click.
I'm not going to be able to stop thinking about the possibilities. - warpdude, on 12/26/2008, -0/+4with that many sensor electrodes, it probably will be expensive (around ~$200 or so, I'd imagine)
- Grotm001, on 12/26/2008, -0/+4like, to prove algebra, u need calculus?
- Fordi, on 12/27/2008, -0/+4I'm sorry, at what point did anyone claim that computers would understand what people were saying? At what point did anyone even mention the requirement for such a claim, AI?
You're calling ***** on something that wasn't stated. I ask why. - inactive, on 12/26/2008, -0/+4There is a diference.
But yes, from the perspective on non-language humans we are something completely difference and incomprehensible. The singularity idea (and it isn't a theory and it isn't proven) states we will experience an equally fundamental shift.
Not just 100 times faster of being able to run all programs that exist in your contact lenses - fundamentally different thinking.
Let's assume if it happens (when it happens) people won't die en masse - and it will be better than what we have now. The next part of your life is more eventful than anything that happened in the last centuries. - jeexbit, on 12/26/2008, -1/+5The singularity is always at hand.
- erp6502, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3Not much except that OCZ don't have a hot Australasian chick to pimp their gear.
- carpespasm, on 12/26/2008, -0/+3If you still have to ask, the singularity has yet to arrive.
- Spoomeister, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3A female Austrailian accent whispering sweet nothings, and a female Japanese accent whispering furtive replies?
- mike23w, on 12/26/2008, -0/+3You're right. I always get them confused.
- mgcristi, on 12/26/2008, -0/+3"User the force Marvin" :)
- Skurt, on 12/26/2008, -2/+5If the collective has sex, do we have a 'Borgasm'?
- funkydude101, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3So what's the difference between this and the brain reading thing from OCZ that you can currently buy?
- denoxis, on 12/26/2008, -1/+4"Last time I checked, machines were still relatively stupid."
So is the president of country X (or anybody who has power but not the capability). It's not the question of whether machines are smart enough or not, it's more like whether we are smart enough not to give the control to them.
"AI isn't going anywhere until Intelligence can be defined mathematically. People don't realize that AI is a math problem, not an engineering one."
I agree. And I think it will be, one day, defined as one hell-of-a function. What I don't know is whether a human or a machine will figure that out. - Cowicide, on 12/26/2008, -0/+3Wow, what's with all the inane "I'd hit it" posts here instead of discussing the tech? You little boys obviously need to step away from your computer for a spell and maybe someday you'll know the touch of a woman IRL at some point in your sad, misogynistic existences.
Thank God most digg users aren't like you or it would be useless. - Chebsi, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2I do that all the time.
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