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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[josephm]

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.

[williamyoung]

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

[RAM-Shu]

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

[Eric-jedf]

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

[winstongregory]

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

[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

[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.

[randydaytona]

Perfect beginning to an end of the human race movie

[pprehn]

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

[DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

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

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

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

[cybergothika]

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.

[jcf]

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.

[hiyo]

Wee woo wee woo

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

[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.

[sanjuansteve]

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

[wheredoigo]

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.

[ribtips]

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

[h.z]

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

[skyrimisforthenords]

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