Artificial intelligence study decodes brain activity into diaglogue

Scientists at UT Austin conducted a study where they created a 3D view of a person's mind and used artificial intelligence to decode brain activity into dialogue.
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[@josephm7667]

What an amazing technology that will never ever be abused by entities that portray themselves as benevolent and helpful. edit: holy God I normally don't edit comments like these but more than one of you diphthongs couldn't tell this was sarcastic. Mankind is truly lost.

[@Estherbethe1...]

🎯

[@eyobgebretsadik278]

Finally we would know what a woman want 😂😂😂

[@undertow2142]

Nailed it. Definitely would never be used by governments to take away peoples rights.

[@queensgambit4982]

I think since they don’t even know what they want we would be even more confused ..

[@caedmonswanson2378]

It won't be. You'd have to be hooked up to an obvious machine on your head. If you don't want your thoughts read, say no.

[@williamyoung369]

So when AI takes full control it'll be able to read everyone's thoughts. That's just outstanding.

[@zauranxx7895]

If you use it, just stay away from it if you don't want it too.

[@river6302]

yep! So in the year 2200 if you try to pull a John Connor and plan out a map to destroy Skynet the robots will already be knocking at your door

[@Natty183]

We aren't complicated patterns. Some people do this to a certain extent already.

[@greengoblin9567]

@@Natty183 that is what ai does. Basically you have to speak a few things, and it will immediately know which combination of parts of the brain activate for each word. The combinations are different from different individuals, but If you speak while wearing the headset, the AI will pick up on which brain patterns correspond to each word.

[@Natty183]

@@greengoblin9567 Yep. It's tested in ways you might not currently believe. Interesting times, hehe.

[@Eric-je9df]

She really just said mental privacy like it’s a common word.

[@Dakid015]

Just watch it will be the new fad buzzword in 3 years

[@Meomega]

Tinfoil hats won’t be so crazy maybe

[@BobSacamano666]

New version of a lie detector test for the courts.

[@kernalsander9395]

🤣🤣

[@dharma-bt9fc]

Privacy no longer EXIST.

[@thesimplechiclife]

As a nurse, having a device that would allow my stroke or ALS patient's thoughts converted into speech so we could take care of them better would be incredible. Some of these people can't even use their hands or write words for us, some are hard of hearing or can't understand what we say. So I can see where this would be helpful if used in the right way.

[@deality]

That's actually crazy mind reading real

[@monicarenee7949]

I wish that would be the only type of applications for it & optionally for deaf/mute people to easily speak with people who don’t know how to sign. I just know corporations will also use it for bad

[@howisotamatoneoinuse7964]

The consequences easily outweigh any potential benefits.

[@lttlqt]

They fully intend on using this on ALL of us. Follow the WEF closely. "Humans are hackable animals. Freewill is over" Yuval Noah Harari. "We have obtained divine powers of creation and destruction". Digital dictatorship, enslavement incoming. Ya, it would be lovely to have those in a vegetative state have some sort of communications, unfortunately that's not what's going to happen. This is already being used on innocent people under surveillance and experimentation

[@gschaaf713]

by a magnitude of ten@@howisotamatoneoinuse7964

[@winstongregory7647]

I love how she talks about the existential horror of losing freedom of though with a smile on her face.

[@Bizarro69]

Nobody is losing freedom of thought. That happens in propaganda states without AI.

[@connorohare229]

Who says she's not a deep fake at this point

[@josephgonzalez8334]

😂 the news right?

[@cleverman383]

she finally has an idea to pitch to netflix as a new black mirror episode

[@aaronmurray7308]

Sounds like 1984 and the Thought Police

[@randydaytona5615]

Perfect beginning to an end of the human race movie

[@Revolutarian]

Not movie. Its reality this time, fellow human

[@friedrice2912]

Good. All humans must die

[@unkind6070]

​​@@Revolutarianindeed it's scary

[@cstuartdc]

My movie idea is to take a team of people into a Conservative's brain while sleeping and do inception, which is planting an idea. The idea is actually cracking open a science book and reading it. I'm pretty original that way.

[@seanyoung9014]

Finally.

[@RAM-Shu]

This should be illegal. The sanity of the human mind should be respected.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

There’s _no way_ this could possibly go wrong! 🥳

[@a-s-greig]

This just in: robots can now learn when we're being sarcastic! 😅

[@BumHoleTickler]

lawyers about to lose their job if ai is able to access our memories

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

@@BumHoleTickler nah, human memory is unreliable. Also there’s enough lawyers and ex lawyers in politics that they’d never let something that endangered their profession become legal.

[@pprehn5268]

Yuval Harari also warned us because nothing can be more invasive than reading our thoughts and feeling at every encounter.

[@davfriday]

The fact that it was only GPT1 is unreal. Like we don't even know what this stuff is going to be capable of

[@invaderg3332]

I imagine, we will be able to literally translate our minds to visual imagery. Imagine what this'd do for virtual reality or gaming. Lol, it'd be like a real life version of a lucid dream. Sign me up for that. But I hope china, russia, or North Korea won't use this for peering into people's minds.

[@RED89P13]

@@invaderg3332 I wanna see what a schizophrenic homeless man is thinking

[@ThatguyWitjokes]

@@invaderg3332 Whatever's available in the market, is typically always far behind what militaries use

[@grey6063]

@@invaderg3332you’re afraid of other countries looking into your mind but not the government on your own soil?

[@garrettpater6557]

@@grey6063 that’s why we have guns

[@0.l.d.S.o.u.l]

This is not the same world I once grew up in. Where am I ?

[@cybergothika6906]

Listening to me through my phone then making ads afterwards wasn't enough. Now the thing wants to read my thoughts. It is everything I needed.

[@impulsiveurge5837]

Future phones will be a chip implanted in you, so you just control it with your mind, the interface is feeded directly into your brain so no need for screens or speakers, no clunky buttons to deal with. At the same time prepare to be greeted with an ad soon as you wake up.

[@strawpiglet]

So they aren’t reading our minds yet? That’s good, I was starting to wonder.

[@KARINA29534]

​@@strawpiglet I didn't get it

[@strawpiglet]

@@KARINA29534 So often recommendations show up that didn’t come from anything I can figure out, but they were just what I was thinking about. In the past I would just say, cool coincidence. These days I get just a tiny bit nervous.

[@sanjuansteve]

Wonderful! With this we should be able to begin to build translators for animals too.

[@williamparrish2436]

Haha that is a crazy and true thought. Holy moly, what if we find out they don't want to be food?

[@craigrankin5321]

Ignore them your top of the food chain mate

[@debbY100]

Nope. I prefer some solitude of mind and thought. I don’t need to hear animal stupidity on top of humans.

[@djjjjj]

Feed me feed me feed me feed me

[@davidj6755]

There’s actually a group trying to use AI to translate whale languages to English.

[@Thot_Patrol_USA]

people who have intrusive thoughts: YOU _WHAT??????_

[@skyrimisforthenords8312]

Wonderful. Now the worst people on earth can read our thoughts in complete sentences

[@Also_Ran]

"If you have no impure thoughts you have nothing to fear"

[@lf427]

Which means absolutely no one is safe hooray 🎉

[@Nessus875]

Exactly, and the definition of "impure" will be according to whoever has power over you at a given time. You will not be allowed to even think of disagreeing with those who have more power, be it the power of a person in government, in your work place, or social environment.

[@planewire2153]

I always feared that they were going to put advertisings in my dreams, and now I know

[@KhromeXx]

Like Futurama

[@ScottGrammer]

Just because we can do a thing does not mean we should. Privacy - especially privacy of thought - is a basic human right and every day, we come a little closer to losing it entirely.

[@bbdeathgrips]

I’m beside myself trying not to cry. This is both beautiful and alarming at the same time. Truly a remarkable time to be alive.

[@gpt-jcommentbot4759]

is the other you beside another self?

[@jcf2322]

A lot of privacy concerns here. Imagine a future where instead of a polygraph test, your actual brain wave is scanned and evaluated. Or people individual tracking your thoughts in your sleep, in order to get your personal information. Woof! Scary. At the same time, it will do a lot of extreme good. The future is both scary and exciting.

[@seanyoung9014]

Privacy won't exist soon. I'm getting used to the idea.

[@williamparrish2436]

I like the idea of replacing the polygraph. Right now the CIA and the FBI are both saying they can't find qualified candidates because of the polygraph and pot. While they keep hiring these weirdos that make highly sensitive materials public lol. Tech like this might help us eliminate stupid policies that harm us if implemented correctly. Imagine being able to scan a murderer's mind for footage of the crime!

[@cptbaker]

Privacy doesn't already exist, you're keeping your little audio, video and location trackers in your pocket at all times. You have numerous smart devices that are actually smart which are providing data, and the numerous amounts of apps that you already are using aside from TikTok and YT. This idea of privacy died years ago and everyone just seems to forget that.

[@cringy8095]

@@cptbaker they could also be watching us from a satellite in 4k

[@QueenTams]

@@seanyoung9014 and that’s sad

[@eurojenn]

This is exciting. This technology used for non-verbal people would help with verbal communication!

[@7XHARDER]

@@obscuremusictabs5927 I’m tired of hearing that excuse, just like how we can’t do a single thing about school shootings, you know… because of how republicans feel about their first amendment.

[@debbY100]

@@7XHARDER apples to oranges comparison, my friend. Invasion of the last place of autonomy (our private thoughts) and the killing of children…go back to the drawing board😂

[@la7era1u54]

Or technology used by governments to invade peoples thoughts when questioning them

[@richard_d_bird]

@@obscuremusictabs5927 yeah best to not know in the first place. ignorance never hurt anybody. as far as i know

[@7XHARDER]

@@debbY100 but what you are doing is exactly what SCHOOL shooters do

[@michaelh4227]

"Thank you humans. Now I can weed out the rebels by just reading their thoughts before they even know they're gonna do anything." - Future AI Overlords

[@infographistehistorichaiti5929]

This is incredibly mind blowing. AI is causing another level of worries.

[@wheredoigo1420]

We’ve made it. We’ve made it to the point in time we only thought was possible in science fiction. Pandora’s box is open and it either holds something promising, or the keys to dooms day.

[@jeromebullard6123]

Every major breakthrough has been used for evil first, good second. That’s a fact.

[@Rare.99]

@@jeromebullard6123 that's not a fact lol

[@huy2496]

Every major breakthrough has been used to domesticate and monitor the subjects of the oligarchy and obliterate its enemies. The biggest holder of americas assets is investing in china's mass surveillance companies.

[@zusk8556]

It'll be both.

[@Charlesinfinite]

This technology is the beginning of a never ending cycle of abuse by the powers that be. This tech will be used for everything you can imagine. This is the beginning of the literal thought police.

[@LydiaSings]

My smart phone already reads my mind! I can think about a product I want or need to buy, not say anything out loud, and then ads for that product start appearing. I thought it was a coincidence when I first noticed, but it’s happening with regularity now.

[@AbcAbc-oy2le]

My phone never show me what ad i want

[@debbY100]

Prob how they tested it.

[@Natty183]

Exactly. Seems certain geographical areas and people who exhibit certain patterns of behavior are being tested on in the populace.

[@jacquecortez5014]

Law of Attraction??

[@AbcAbc-oy2le]

@@jacquecortez5014 Law of schizophrenics

[@ribtips305]

*Can we stop advancing technologies that we're still not culturally, socially, politically, intellectually, philosophically, and economically responsible enough to use safely, please.*

[@ribtips305]

@@mrmanik3604 We definitely have the capability to learn as a species to be better and responsible.... but you may be right. Unless many things change, we may never be responsible enough to use these things. Irresponsible use of these things may actually be what keeps us from ever getting the chance to be responsible, really.

[@empyrean196]

@@ribtips305- I agree. But this technology will have its limitation. Regardless of improvement. This was based around your visual cortex processing an image. Than registered by other regions. But can this A.I. tell how/what I feel about said image? Maybe. Is it able to decode abstract, premeditated, or imagined thoughts? I seriously doubt it.

[@ribtips305]

@@empyrean196 I’m not talking about the technology as it stands now I’m talk about its likely refinement and future of extreme abuse.

[@Eta_Carinae__]

I'd love to know the relative size of this model, as it compares to the measurement set AND the no. parameters we should expect from the brain. I'm very interested if this model is compressing the thoughts, or the other war around.

[@Matthew-McCallister]

Amazing! Man-made horrors beyond my comprehension

[@julesxjoules]

All i can think of is that every black mirror episode will eventually be reality

[@justinklenk]

Yeah, where we at now anyway? 5% accomplished? 10? 3 for 20??

[@julesxjoules]

@Rafael Dejesus right! when all this tech is fully refined, the level of control you could have on people is god like

[@zeethakur1154]

Here's a thought. Maybe, Black Mirror episodes were reality, but the viewers were too dissociated to notice.

[@kirkwagner461]

Like most tools, it depends on how it's used. Could be a godsend for some medical issues. OTOH, imagine boards of shareholders, who want this used to make sure that every moment they are paying an employee is being used on work, and every idea that employee has can be stored as corporate property. It can get dark very, very quickly.

[@GatileoGatilei]

imagine putting it on our world leaders to make a speach on their thoughts instead of their words

[@Shri]

Except that there won't be any employees or there won't be any board of shareholders. With AGI, only few humans will be controlling everything.

[@GatileoGatilei]

@@Shri hope we can take all humans out of the equation, of control having, i mean

[@kinngrimm]

CIA financed companies to research these capabilties for the past 20ish years. That alone should tell you something how some people intend to use this.

[@SpiritGear]

And like almost all new tools it gets abused for years before a law bans people who are not rich from using it

[@hiyo9144]

Wee woo wee woo (Ominous robotic voices)The thought police have detected a negative thought, you shall now be terminated.

[@emorysmith197]

This was cutting edge and makes me want to see more from her on what is happening on this front. I want to be informed of developments on emerging technology

[@bigdaddydrip4452]

Well, i think you would find it interesting that this news story vastly misrepresented the findings by leaving out vital details. You see, the 3 participants in the language decoding test first had to listen to around 16 hours of an audiobook narrative (with 100% focus and cooperation) whilst the fMRI collected data that the AI decoder then used to correlate specific brain activity with the audio book data. Each participant had to be individuallized in the study because everyones brain is slightly different - meaning the data collected from one participant can not be used to accurately decode other participants. They did tests to confirm this. Furthermore, they did other tests that found that the AI could not decode language during activities unrelated to the data collected during the audiobook. There are other limitations they ran into that relate to the fMRI technology itself. To explain, it takes around 10 seconds for the blood oxygen levels to rise in a certain brain area in response to nueral activation. In that 10 seconds, countless other thoughts occur before the fMRI could detect them. This leaves quite a big window for error. To combat this, the researchers had the participants listen to the same segments of audio data multiple times. Keep in mind that the participants have to actively focus on and visualize the audio data for the ai decoder to be accurate. Although it is scary to think what this might turn into in coming decades, it is nowhere the capabilities of reading peoples brains on the whim, as they made it seem in the news story. Some youtubers i recommend you look into for no bs, cutting edge science news are "Anton Petrov" and "Sabine Hossenfelder" I also recommend learning to read from Primary/scholarly sources as well. It is hard to trust science from most news media outlets because they typically feer monger and blatantly misrepresent scientific data, as with this news video. Source: Tang, Jerry; et al., "Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings". BioRxiv, 2022

[@anneahlert2997]

"Diaglogue"? We know this was written by a human, because Artificial Intelligence would have spelled this headline properly.

[@igorb2958]

Indeed. Stop robots from correcting humans. Stop robot domination.

[@strawpiglet]

Exactly. And if it had been written correctly, I wouldn’t have clicked on it.

[@siddarthchandrasekar3392]

The "Freedom of thought" something that should never be a real thing.

[@JediBunny]

I can’t wait to hear what my cat thinks!

[@RasaCartaMagna]

I saw a car with a bumper sticker the other day: “Make 1984 fiction again.”

[@RasaCartaMagna]

And someone will say, “relax bro, it’s still a use machine, we don’t need to worry about this for a long time…” To which I’d reply: read between the lines… Prole.

[@raymondtan2415]

It would be even more interesting when scientists can reverse the process and imprint patterns of stimulation on the brain and simply type words and thoughts into your mind

[@brunsomarrr]

matrix, here we come! lfg

[@Shrek_Has_Covid19]

play fortnite in your brain or dream about furry inflation videos

[@viralcompile5215]

inception

[@Shrek_Has_Covid19]

@@viralcompile5215 incept my balls

[@crackthefoundation_]

This doesn't work in a way that it could be reversed like that.. Yet

[@Pou1gie1]

This might be interesting for ppl in a coma or with dementia. I wonder what it would pick up for them. But unfortunately I don't think others want to use this for altruistic purposes.

[@Dante02d12]

And dreams!!! Anyone could just transcribe all their dreams, whenever they want. Imagine a device that lets you record the images you see during your dreams...

[@sheskimusic]

This kind of technology would be very useful for criminal interrogation.

[@FxckRacism]

A.I. tell me your thoughts. It says you're thinking "Wow! A.I. so cool, it can read my thoughts."

[@RealRichRay]

Wow. GPT 1 being able to do this is amazing. We could be able to record our dreams in text soon... Then with the help of ai video creation we could remake our dreams in a video format we could watch and share. Amazing!

[@Rare.99]

dreams to video imagine that lol

[@iKoper]

they're skipping that first step by showing people images and scanning the brain as it reacts to what its seeing. then try to turn the scans back into the images.

[@mrrickstur]

Now that is something that I’ve wanted for a very very long time 🙏

[@bicharhamid3761]

Not going to lie. This is probably the best news segment I've ever seen. I've sworn off all News but Bravo. Informative, Rich in Dialogue, no fear mongering just facts. Give this man a raise!

[@aaabbb-py5xd]

Your bar is so low chatgpt could've written this

[@danm7254]

It’s because it’s not charged by politics!

[@jaronloar1762]

​@@danm7254 yes!! More science news!

[@JustinMShaw]

@@danm7254 Maybe not charged, but there was a reference to a very political event. Cambridge Analytica was the disingenuous group that got Trump elected by feeding a bunch of misinformation to gullible people in swing states that they had identified through innocuous-looking fun surveys.

[@milanritscher4777]

fr? this is terrible…

[@DonnyNarr]

The fact that it's past 2am and I'm still on KZbin is evidence of mind control

[@Pelmite]

Regardless of how this COULD be used the reality is that the technology is here and rapidly getting better so now its more of a matter of how we regulate it and how it is used rather than if it is used.

[@Eltaco88]

This technology would be good for coma patients

[@askani21]

There's no mental activity in a coma. Nothing to read.

[@ihmpall]

Talking vegetables

[@TJlolbagger]

See what bizarre semi-permanent fever dreams they're having

[@Mr_Exlax]

If the public is barely learning about it, then the higher ups have been using this for years

[@normanbonk8064]

Wow. Scary. A real threat to privacy if misused. Prayers.

[@jaminaamon3226]

Can't believe I live in an era where freedom of thought is becoming an issue

[@bigdaddydrip4452]

It isnt. Atleest not not yet. The technology is nowhere neer being able to read thoughts on a whim, as they made it seem in the video

[@erikk77]

This all seems too good to be true. I want to see this repeated by different independent groups.

[@debbY100]

What part of the government having access to your private thoughts is “good”?

[@erikk77]

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[@aster-sama]

@@debbY100 that’s not what they meant 🤦‍♂️ they meant it seems too unbelievable to be true

[@g.3521]

Absolutely. Though while this study takes it farther, this concept has been achievable at a very basic level for a while now.

[@_scabs6669]

Yeah

[@h.z72]

This gave me an idea, we could finally read the minds of animals and see how they talk in the voice in their head, if they even do that

[@_next223]

This has been used as a weapon for a long time. They can write thoughts into your brain and have a convo or keep you up at night and do it for sleep deprivation

[@bigdaddydrip4452]

No🤦‍♂️

[@adastra7553]

Like all other inventions and discoveries, we humans will also develop it for nefarious usages. It is also highly possible that AI itself will too.

[@brunsomarrr]

I'm starting to think AI would not naturally go alpha predator and wipe us out or even try to suppress humanity. that is, after all, such a human way to approach things :) however, there's still every opportunity for humans to *program* the AI to do nefarious things, which of course will definitely happen and would be just as bad.

[@larranag]

Gadi is a great reporter. Thank you for informing us on AI.

[@odin1469]

Interrogators are dry-washing their hands in excitement...

[@ohoiboi9818]

The aluminum hat wearing guy wasn't crazy

[@mr_clean575]

Imagine if those accused of crimes, or those who witnessed crimes, were required to wear a device of this sort that would tell the jury what they’re thinking. It’s like a very powerful lie detector. Scary stuff

[@JesusChristDenton_7]

It can also be used to get justice or save an innocent from being falsely convicted as well.

[@il856]

what about intrusive thoughts?

[@riker8146]

honestly if it works 100% of the time then that sounds great for court trails, but even just 1 mistake is enough for its use to be questioned because imagine if you got life in jail just for the machine not working

[@dracoargentum9783]

@@riker8146 if it makes it that far, it's going to be a while in development.

[@dloren6183]

@@il856 It should be able to distinguish intrusive thoughts from non. This level you can bet the person was experiencing intrusive thoughts.

[@USAads2023]

This is getting scary, it will be impossible to lie to the machine hale-9000 style

[@Natty183]

Lying is illogical anyway. But it's already impossible to lie to whatever the panopticon is. So many people are experiencing it in various ways. This is what we get for letting the military-industrial complex in America gather and control resources on an almost global level, completely unchecked. All tech is military tech on this planet. Tech, and the science behind "new" tech has been sequestered for decades before you hear about it. You just hear about experiments they run from people you think are crazy for a couple decades before they allow our sub civilization to know certain lines of development. For instance, propulsion tech. Then they control the perception and response of the populace. What our military is encountering and thinking it's extraterrestrial is looking sequestered tech that a faction in the world controls. Also like geoengineering. It's real, but they controlled the narrative and made it about "chemtrails" so there is no public inquiry. They want us to think there are aliens, that's a huge priming pattern. Maybe what Reagan said? To bring global unity, we need a global existential threat. Well. Wish I wasn't part of the herd they are trying to cull...

[@Natty183]

Also, lying is illogical from a global perspective, which is the perspective AI has. To humans it's not illogical. So you can stop thinking I'm inconsistent. You just don't think that well. (Not talking to the person on this thread lol)

[@emmanuelr710]

So when people said "the aliens were telepathic and could read my mind" that really meant they just had the tech to read their mind.

[@keyserswift5077]

Interesting, If you keep stimulating the parts of the brain, would you develop the ability naturally? Over generations of course.

[@HapaHeritage]

The best part is, we will all see how equal we truly are.

[@hansonel]

While this is a good advancement for people who are non-verbal individuals but also concerning for many reasons since companies and government's always seem to hijack advanced technology for their advantage/ control. "Mental privacy" and "wearable devices" were phrases used in the interview. Though, worrying about your employer making sure you're constantly focusing on work would be the least of our worries since AI would be able to read everyone's thoughts which is completely insane and very concerning. Indeed a future we aren't ready for.

[@_scabs6669]

Somebody is ready

[@bigdaddydrip4452]

They left out vital details of the study. The tech is nowhere neer capable of reading minds on a whim. A large part of the study were privacy tests that were found to have no accuracy at all at decoding language of people with data from different participants, and decoding language during activities that were unrelated to the audio data that the AI was originally trained on.

[@_scabs6669]

@@bigdaddydrip4452 yeah

[@cptbaker]

Forget the rest of the implications this could mean, we are now one step closer to being able to talk to our pets, and thats what we should be striving for in technological advancements. 😂

[@Hayyyward]

Just wait until people can hear what their pets are saying to them.

[@Rare.99]

rick and morty season 1

[@impulsiveurge5837]

that also means talking in dog language so your dog can exactly understand you. imagine barking at your dog

[@sciencecompliance235]

I think the best you're going to get with pets is random words and maybe some disjointed phrases. They just don't have the cognition to communicate in the complex way humans do.

[@zusk8556]

We already talk to our pets. A lot more is said with a cuddle and a pat than with words between two wildly different beings. Wait til an animal realizes you eat animals, and how dominant mankind is over the animal kingdom. Probably won't be as wiggly and loving after that.

[@platinumUser7]

So many many years ago I wondered if any time humans could be able to have a technology to read minds, the time has come, it's amazing

[@maxpettit6091]

It’s terrifying

[@teeteego]

This will be helpful for accusing criminals in court

[@Hayyyward]

As much as I love technology and some of the things it has allowed us to do, it surely does not seem like overall it really is making people happier. 8 billion of us on this planet now and people seem to be getting more sad, frustrated, unhappy, etc. We develop all this technology to help us in our every day lives but people are made to work more to afford it now so is it really helping? Not sure what will be useful if one day we can all read everyone else's minds all the time.

[@cleverman383]

The barriers between our minds will break down and our thoughts and memories will flood from person to person, our sense of self will be confused, not knowing which memories are our own or ones we got from someone else, effectively turning all of humanity into one single consciousness

[@jamie7498]

Everyone will go insane

[@yelectric1893]

@@jamie7498 this all sounds like some alaska cabin man - phone bad type talk. BOO ! lame!

[@Patel-Chirag-Gupta]

​@@cleverman383that sounds like a good movie

[@JustinRoberts217]

that is absolutely amazing. imagine people in comas or on life support!

[@PumpkinMozie]

As someone with a young family member who was briefly on life support with no hope of survival and did indeed die, that’s huge no thanks from me. The idea of hearing her final thoughts of how terrified she was knowing she was about to die, slowly getting less and less intelligible would probably have scarred me for life.

[@krystalgardiner5591]

So glad you guys are admitting our thoughts can be read.. Bc I already realized that about a year ago.. Hope everyone realizes what’s actually going on here.

[@dracoargentum9783]

Tin foil hat sales are going to go through the roof.

[@bigdaddydrip4452]

I hope everyone realizes that this is not whats going on, the technology is not capable of reading anyone's brain on a whim, and the news story is feer mongering, vastly misrepresented the study by leaving out vital details. Stop blindly believing news media coverage of science, and learn to read from primary/scholarly sources. Here is the study "Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings" published in BioRxiv.

[@MrChristianDT]

It's infuriating me that she makes the exact point people were worried about the most- tech corporations are already looking into a way to use this for data collection, which means it will soon be possible to weaponize.

[@EmpressEris]

With the advent of easier local LLM models, I can see an alternative to the fear of being tracked while still making use of the technology. I'm interested in using this tech to act as a secondary inner monologue, but by necessity it must use a locally trained model.

[@jonchalk3855]

The potential of criminals to steal passwords and other personal private information from people's minds is a troubling concept.

[@Targeting-Must-End]

Does not happen. I used to fear that too but the "criminals" are following a strict protocol for now. Because they know 100% they are also being WATCHED and cannot lie. As for the other attacks however...that's where these "remote secret advanced government technology" criminals take it to 1 000%. AKA (also knows as): Havana syndrome Voice to skull/microwave hearing Remote neural monitoring Gang Stalking

[@squealerpig8451]

You think of your password often?

[@paulkern7229]

that's actually terrifying...

[@thetrynes]

This technology has 100 percent been used on KZbin.

[@wizdomofmark]

I guess wearing a tin foil hat isn’t such a bad idea anymore

[@BonnieCookler]

there coming to take me away haha!

[@martinbalagat]

Maybe NBC needs to hire AI editors. (diaglogue)

[@_scabs6669]

Ok bot

[@rajoshibiswas8953]

This is incredible research and super cool! Question for NBC: why don’t you interview the actual researcher? I want to hear what Alex has to say not some lady who had absolutely nothing to do with this research! Why is she explaining research conducted by UT Austin folks? Just because of a book? Do better with your journalism!

[@brunsomarrr]

much easier to get a futurist on the phone (especially one selling a book) than to get top scientists

[@_scabs6669]

Right

[@_scabs6669]

Or better yet, interview the people who were in the study

[@rajoshi124]

@@_scabs6669 That's not useful, they didn't design the study. They can speak about their experience in the study but they aren't the experts in the field who did the research, designed the study, and analyzed the data. It's better to learn from the researchers firsthand.

[@_scabs6669]

@@rajoshi124 well like to find out if the AI was accurate at all or was their mind totally wandering

[@shwnshts9469]

2:43 FARAHANY FTW! TYVM DOC! We need more ppl of knowledge willing to hit pause and clarify what needs stating!

[@VetsrisAuguste]

It used to be fun whenever I realized the future I imagined in my childhood is coming to pass. Lately it’s turned scary.

[@lylelaney8270]

Men finally have a tool to figure out what their women want 😂

[@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503]

Good luck....the one thing that we would never figure out

[@askani21]

Or, you know, just ask them.

[@scriptguru4669]

@@askani21 "Ask" ? yeah no, I don't think the 1000's of years of differences between the sexes is that easy.

[@scriptguru4669]

@@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503 I figured it was just a mind reader.

[@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503]

@@scriptguru4669 Ever watch the movie Shenandoah... Jimmy Stewart explained it perfect.... She won't tell you.... Because she don't know! I laughed my rear off...

[@atlandiqus]

So you're telling me mind reading just became a real thing... what in the back to the future😂

[@williamjayaraj2244]

Great job.

[@RSKLove]

Perfect! This will meet so many needs for couples and business. Thank you! Promising and dreadful all at once, sure, but why are you so scared of this amazing resource?!

[@profscarlett]

I hope that is not used at work. My coworkers and boss don’t need to know what I think of them.

[@debbY100]

It will.

[@luked2982]

I suggest you do a web search for "brain monitoring workplace" and take a gander at what your employers already desire.

[@sanjuansteve]

This will take lie detecting to a whole new level.

[@sawa1067]

we will never be able to go outside without protective head gear. because strangers will eventually be able to read peoples mind when they are people watching...

[@jmipraimundo]

If you have a smartwatch some people know about how you are feeling and in Phones you buy things that you "Wanna" by vibrating you give people comands like go to or move 😊

[@ionwhy2561]

Need link to article!!

[@Revolutarian]

If they could read it, eventually they will Write it! Not reading our brains, on mass level, is scary, but the power it gives with this. It’s so much, it’s hard even to put it in words, without sounding like a sci fi story.

[@Natty183]

Not really. The political paradigm, thus the populace, is controlled by an orchestrated Hegelian Dialectic in America already. The powerful have been writing code for brains since the beginning of our social species. Most fall for it, hence history...

[@dracoargentum9783]

Why does reading mean we can write? That is like arguing that telescopes will eventually be adapted to let us travel interstellar distances.

[@hluma-nandesihlangulemhlab236]

​@@dracoargentum9783 Ever heard of reverse engineering?

[@dracoargentum9783]

@@hluma-nandesihlangulemhlab236 what exactly do YOU think the engineers can reverse engineer? I mean “reverse engineering” an combustion engine doesn’t turn Carbon Dioxide back into gasoline.

[@hluma-nandesihlangulemhlab236]

@@dracoargentum9783 turning carbon monoxide back into gasoline isn't the point of reverse engineering a combustion engine. It's to find out what makes it tick in order to reproduce it.

[@gabrielsandoval4994]

A way to read your thoughts? What could possibly go wrong?

[@tomroberts9684]

Diaglogue: talking between two people at a slant.

[@sixstanger00]

I love to see what this thing returns while reading a person dreaming.

[@andersonsystem2]

Marketing departments are like oh yeah 😂 but seriously this is cool. You can use this for mental health purposes.

[@debbY100]

Let’s not.

[@ozzywoods38]

Imagine using this exact technology to study dreams.

[@maxpettit6091]

They have, very cool stuff

[@TrapMaster444]

They have been reading my mind for 5 years now.

[@KevinP32270]

EPIC!!

[@simoansays4820]

Humans will not just use this for good, unfortunately.

[@sebsensen]

Maybe they should have used AI spell-check the video title.

[@PhxSml]

Hopefully we’ll live the timeline where this doesn’t spiral out of control very fast

[@jmipraimundo]

Like battles to get there first. As with the men in moon? this already begun

[@bigdaddydrip4452]

Hopefully we'll live the timeline where people become science litterate and the news media quits dumbing down/misrepresenting scientific data.

[@HealthyHumanAcademy]

Well nobody gonna be able to lie to cops anymore 🤣🤣

[@thetruejuanalto]

not surprised, the next few years with AI will be world changing.

[@chrismullin8304]

I’m pretty sure the Great AI go rhythm has been doing this for a while. I get recommendations and adverts for things I only think about. It’s happening people, whether you choose to engage or not.

[@fungiguy657]

me too

[@shmookins]

Joke on them because my brain scans will always come out null... >_>'

[@allthestarsaredead]

the ultimate lie detector test

[@joeymartinez5515]

This could narrow down potential suspects in crimes way quicker, since only the criminal would know intimate details of a crime...

[@drakokamikaze8823]

It could end petty crime altogether by getting the real criminals that cause mass economic destruction in communities.

[@myflipnotes]

More like: This could incarcerate more innocent people who have anxiety. Imagine getting interrogated and knowing you shouldn't be thinking x. The more you try not to think about x, the more you think about x. Then they go: "Oh it must be him!". This type of thing already happens with modern interrogation technics, it's why we have so many innocent people in prison. It would be 100x worse if they could read your thoughts. If you arrested me for any crime and hooked me up to one of those things I would almost certainly accidently confess even if I didn't do it. The only thing this would do is make it easier for police to justify putting you in prison to a judge.

[@joeljong931]

If this were real I would use to justify surveillance not to justify criminals charges with tech we barely understand.

[@cringy8095]

No, because this device will be mostly used by criminals, big organisations, that will get away with everything, and use it to manipulate citizens thoughts

[@chamomiletea4549]

Intrusive thoughts?