By xaosseed
… was the future just turning over. “Not quite yet the headband of the Ono-Sendai deck in William Gibson’s Neuromancer, but close.” to quote Ken MacLeod, writer and general future seer-y sort.
And think - if this is on the open market, what level is secret technology at? I mean, in 2004 we had neurons in dishes flying *simulators* - so now that we have brainjacks, and many thousands of years experience in hawking… who’s to say whats really piloting those UAV’s?
And I suppose you could get someone to wear one of these things all the time, and over a long enough period build up a model of their brain activity while they act, sleep, remember, feel - and once you’ve got enough datapoints just drop the whole set into a big neural-net correlator and hatch some sickening parody of sentience that will spend the rest of its existance wreaking vengeance on us for the cruel act of ever birthing it in the first place.
Lets start tomorrow!
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21st of February, 2008
Would that it were that easy.
There’s a good TED Talk on AI:
http://www.ted.com/speakers/view/id/151
21st of February, 2008
Something I’ve often wondered is how such a device would work if used by someone whose brain physically works differently from the norm.
I’ve heard of people who had to re-learn language skills after an accident, and now use a dfferent section of the brain for it, and of people whose corpus callosum is gone (this can result in a literal “Left hand does not know what the right is doing” scenario). How would that machine cope with non-standard brainwave patterns?
21st of February, 2008
Presumably their is a calibration for your first use, every brain being sligthly different. hmm.
22nd of February, 2008
I imagine there’s a learning < -> learning aspect to the system, meaning that the interface element has some aspects that adapt, and the brain is well capable of making substantial changes in order to achieve a goal.