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TALKING to yourself used to be a strictly private pastime. That's no longer the case – researchers have eavesdropped on our internal monologue for the first time. The achievement is a step towards helping people who cannot physically speak communicate with the outside world.

"If you're reading text in a newspaper or a book, you hear a voice in your own head," says Brian Pasley at the University of California, Berkeley. "We're trying to decode the brain activity related to that voice to create a medical prosthesis that can allow someone who is paralysed or locked in to speak."

When you hear someone speak, sound waves activate sensory neurons in your inner ear. These neurons pass information to areas of the brain where different aspects of the sound are extracted and interpreted as words.

In a previous study, Pasley and his colleagues recorded brain activity in people who already had electrodes implanted in their brain to treat epilepsy, while they listened to speech. The team found that certain neurons in the brain's temporal lobe were only active in response to certain aspects of sound, such as a specific frequency. One set of neurons might only react to sound waves that had a frequency of 1000 hertz, for example, while another set only cares about those at 2000 hertz. Armed with this knowledge, the team built an algorithm that could decode the words heard based on neural activity aloneMovie Camera (PLoS Biology, doi.org/fzv269).

The team hypothesised that hearing speech and thinking to oneself might spark some of the same neural signatures in the brain. They supposed that an algorithm trained to identify speech heard out loud might also be able to identify words that are thought.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429934.000-brain-decoder-can-eavesdrop-on-your-inner-voice.html#.VFJ--JDF9Nw



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This is a very interesting technological development. This research will likely get a lot of funding. Do you think we will live in a world in which we can see the thoughts of people before they say them? ???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1UaqV5IbHY

The link is not free or look for it on the internet. Pretty cool show as it is based on tech that exists or being developed in labs right now to predict the future.

200 years from now all science fiction (emphasis to the word science) literature before 2015 will become everyday's stuff of life.

6 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyN4ViZ21N0

This technology's applicability to mass surveillance is very limited, for the simple reason that to be able to distinguish any of the signals that originate in a person's brain, the detectors have to be situated very close to their brain... preferably directly implanted into the brain, but attached to the surface of the head can yield some very rough but usable data. As you move the detectors farther away, say a few feet away from the person, the signal to noise ratio is such that it is completely impossible to distinguish the radiation emitted by the person's brain activity from all the background noise. Therefore, yes, someday such a technology could be used to "read a person's mind" if you already have them in hand and can stick electrodes on/in their head. But such a technology is fundamentally unable to monitor people's thoughts from a long distance away.

However, it's also very possible that in the near future most people will have various kinds of electronic implants or wearable technology allowing for communication, payment systems, etc... solving the problem of needing a detector close to the person to be able to detect the signals.

Couldn't a cell phone be used as such a device to read these signals? It certainly has proximity.

until brain fakers... if there is take to decode it, there is a tech to fake it.

Vision Reconstruction (The Science of Mind Reading) - UCTV Prime Cuts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o17Zwzam1g

No quite mind reading power yet but this is today and not in a distant dystopian future...
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What happens when your friend’s smartphone can tell that you’re lying





In just a few weeks, the next installment of “The Hunger Games” will arrive in movie theaters. The latest in a long line of films to depict a future all-knowing or controlling government — think “1984” or “Minority Report” — the dystopian tale will likely be a runaway hit. But the power to seem all-knowing – or at least know more than do now – may soon lie in technology that’s already in the palm of your hand.

We are nearing a point where our smartphones will be able to recognize a face or voice, in real life or on-screen. And identification is only the most basic of the possibilities. Many app-makers are experimenting with software that can also analyze – able to determine someone’s emotions or honesty just by a few facial cues.

This interpersonal assessment technology promises to make our lives easier. For instance, facial recognition technology can allow people to get immediate and amazing customer service. If a restaurant or retailer can identify me before I walk in the door, it would be able to identify me as a returning customer, accessing my favorite dishes or products. I would be greeted like an old friend (whether I were, or not).

Similarly, algorithms are now being developed that link thousands of facial cues with human emotions. Our brains do this naturally – we know without asking whether someone is happy or upset based only on their expressions. Law enforcement and poker players take this a step further, using facial cues to determine someone’s honesty. But with technology augmenting our brain’s natural behavior – possibly providing direct, measurable and verifiable input – we can produce measurable and verifiable data. As sensors move from our smartphones to activity trackers to smartwatches from Apple and Samsung, we are measuring more than ever and are not far off from continuously tracking our emotions. And software is now in development to interpret people’s emotions, then project the results via an app onto a screen such as Google Glass.

Technology can also analyze the human voice to determine emotion – again, not just mimicking, but surpassing our brain’s abilities. Moodies, an app developed by Beyond Verbal, is able to detect a speaker’s mood based on nothing more than a voice. Worldwide call centers are testing the technology to help operators determine whether callers are upset and likely to switch their business to a competitor.

There are also some potentially negative consequences. If you can simply run a person’s image and voice through an app to determine their emotions and veracity, we will have to adjust as a society. Many of our daily interactions are built on small lies: “So happy to see you”, “Of course I remember you,” and “This is the best (food, activity or place).” In other words, society’s function is smoothed by little white lies – do we really want to eliminate that?

As we uncover our deceptions – implicit and explicit, including those of which we have convinced even ourselves – a market for technology that hides our emotions will arise. Entrepreneurs may create “emotion-cloaking devices.” Facial coverings may become more popular. Perhaps there’ll be sanctuaries where no devices are allowed, either by custom or law — an atmosphere akin to how we now feel about taking pictures in public bathrooms and kids’ classrooms.

One thing is for sure: politics is in for a major overhaul. With every smartphone possessing a virtual lie-detector test, elected officials will need to be creative in the ways they talk to us. In fact, my fear is the most insecure and most powerful politicians will resist, and quickly seek to regulate or restrict these technologies — ignoring their obvious good — in a hidden but discoverable attempt to preserve their own power and half-truths.

Ready or not, technologies are quickly arriving, which allow us to assess other people to a degree of accuracy we never before imagined. While by no means a cure for Alzheimer’s — at least in the disease’s early stages — facial recognition software could supplement a sufferer’s slowly deteriorating memory and help recall acquaintances, friends and loved ones.

Before we rush to decry these assessment technologies, we must also consider their incredible array of benefits. If this “recognition revolution” can indeed realize its potential, won’t it absolutely be worth a little uncertainty today?


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/10/31/what-happens-when-your-friends-smartphone-can-tell-that-youre-lying/

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You're really overvalutating a new embrional technology who will probably never sucess guys, and i'm not talking about bitcoin.

You can already do that via telepathy.

Look, even if something like that worked, what's the use? I mean, people are constantly thinking things all the time. It might be useful as a lie detector sort of, if you asked you subject pointed questions, but you would be inundated with other people's thoughts if you tried to grab thoughts in general. You would need a super-duper-duper computer to sort everything out, and to find thoughts that were relevant to what you were looking for.

:)

They could create a massive network of computers that could decipher all those hours of prerecorded video-thoughts and point to the stuff that will certainly send you to jail...


Avoid watching marathons of R rated animé on netflix before getting that brain scrub...

Proof that they had violated the 4th Amendment, and should go to jail.  :)