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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A computer has been trained to "read" people's minds by looking at scans of their brains as they thought about specific words, researchers said on Thursday.

They hope their study, published in the journal Science, might lead to better understanding of how and where the brain stores information.

This might lead to better treatments for language disorders and learning disabilities, said Tom Mitchell of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who helped lead the study.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080529/tc_nm/computer_mind_dc


Ok so maybe not but an interesting study is it not?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7423184.stm

Monkey robots are already here!

Another step closer to uploads.

Sounds neat, but yeah mind reading computers are a while away. Something to do with the low resolution of brain scanning techniques (also why they still carry out mental research on primates).

I for one welcome our.....blah blah blah.


I dare them to read my mind. :D

I for one welcome our.....blah blah blah.


I dare them to read my mind. :D

The computer would self-destruct instantly, out of sheer terror.

The computer would self-destruct instantly, out of sheer terror.

And LG is once again the savior of the whole human race, someone give this man a metal!

And LG is once again the savior of the whole human race, someone give this man a metal!

I think you mean Medal, unless you're going to give him all rights to say, copper.

I think you mean Medal, unless you're going to give him all rights to say, copper.

No, I mean metal... how about Goofballium Atomic Number 216

bandwidth and storage capacity. analog did an editorial on that not much more then a year ago. mass market journalism is always two and a half steps behind anyone who actually and honestly thinks.

i'd love to download some of the dreams i have at night to a 3d renderer, animation and game engine, but not even the most super of super computers YET have the bandwidth to do so.

this is not inhierently a perminent obstical however, just a milestone we haven't quite gotten to. it's mildly interesting that work is being done on the interface side of it; but for the time being that is all.

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And LG is once again the savior of the whole human race, someone give this man a metal!

You assume the computer doesn't recognise a like soul and they start colluding.

LG with mind reading capabilities?

The horror, the horror.

And the majority of mind reading computers on the market fail due to insufficient input.

And LG is once again the savior of the whole human race, someone give this man a metal!
Goofballium?

No, I mean metal... how about Goofballium Atomic Number 216

Goofballium?

Great minds and the like I suppose...

Great minds and the like I suppose...

Actually The_pantless_hero is a mind reading computer.

I was just thinking about this!




OH SHI-

Mind Reading Computers Will Soon Take Control!
Limited Brain-Scanning Programs Will Maybe Help Us Do Something, Someday!

No, I mean metal... how about Goofballium Atomic Number 216

Uh...wouldn't something like that have to be artificially created and also probably be unstable to the point of self-destruction within an instant of its creation?

Sounds like something out of Ghost in the Shell.

On a second not this tech gives me the creeps. Sound like something the gov in F451 would have.

And so it begins. Legislation for thought crime.