Science New mind-reading machine can translate your thoughts and display them as text INSTANTLY - I seriously hope this is fake news.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-machine-translate-thoughts-display-text.html

  • Researchers say they have developed a machine that can translate our thoughts
  • The astonishing machine will analyse what you are thinking and display it as text
  • Scientists hope that the machine can be used by people who are unable to speak
Scientists have developed an astonishing mind-reading machine which can translate what you are thinking and instantly display it as text.

They claim that it has an accuracy rate of 90 per cent or more and say that it works by interpreting consonants and vowels in our brains.

The researchers believe that the machine could one day help patients who suffer from conditions that don't allow them to speak or move.

The machine registers and analyses the combination of vowels and consonants that we use when constructing a sentence in our brains.

It interprets these sentences based on neural signals and can translate them into text in real time.

In fact, scientists claim that the machine can use words that it hasn't even heard before.

Study leader David Moses told the Sun: 'No published work has demonstrated real-time classification of sentences from neural signals.

'Given the performance exhibited by [the machine] in this work and its capacity for expansion, we are confident in its ability to serve as a platform for the proposed speech prosthetic device.'

There are fears from critics, however, that the device will cause problems if secret thoughts are exposed accidentally.

The device was developed at the University of California and explained in the Journal of Neural Engineering.

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The moment this pic gets on 4chan, let the memes begin...!



I don't like this. I hope it's fake news. I really don't like this.
 
Just reading it at best it sounds like a scam to drum up investment capital, and at worst an April Fools gag. Just read it. It's clearly pure BS.

Probably. It would be great for the disabled. But too easily abused.
 
100% April Fools.

(no they didn't paid me to say that nonono)
 
Here's the original study if you want a less exceptional source than the Daily Mail. It's one of those setups where you have to request/buy the full text of the study, but they summarized it.
Objective. Recent research has characterized the anatomical and functional basis of speech perception in the human auditory cortex. These advances have made it possible to decode speech information from activity in brain regions like the superior temporal gyrus, but no published work has demonstrated this ability in real-time, which is necessary for neuroprosthetic brain–computer interfaces.
Approach. Here, we introduce a real-time neural speech recognition (rtNSR) software package, which was used to classify spoken input from high-resolution electrocorticography signals in real-time. We tested the system with two human subjects implanted with electrode arrays over the lateral brain surface. Subjects listened to multiple repetitions of ten sentences, and rtNSR classified what was heard in real-time from neural activity patterns using direct sentence-level and HMM-based phoneme-level classification schemes.
Main results. We observed single-trial sentence classification accuracies of 90% or higher for each subject with less than 7 minutes of training data, demonstrating the ability of rtNSR to use cortical recordings to perform accurate real-time speech decoding in a limited vocabulary setting.
Significance. Further development and testing of the package with different speech paradigms could influence the design of future speech neuroprosthetic applications.
So it isn't entirely fake, but Daily Mail being...well, Daily Mail, they did some reaching.
 
April Fool's Day and a technology meglomaniacs would savor like no other? Yeah, thanks for the laughs.

Attributing the development to Dr. Hugo Strange would have made it more convincing.
 
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The scientists who developed this are currently dead by suicide from 3 gunshots to the back of the head.

We can't have a machine that would let people ask The Lady President : "Are you corrupt?"
 
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