Meta Just Achieved Mind-Reading Using AI

Imagine if our brains could be scanned and the contents of our thoughts could be read. A team of researchers and also Meta have just achieved this feat by using AI. In this episode, we take a look.

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[BCI introduction]

[Neurally controlled robotic arm enables tetraplegic patient to drink coffee of her own volition]

[Restoration of grasp following paralysis through brain-controlled stimulation of muscles]

[Resrources from the research: videos, audio, manuscript, lab photos, etc.]

[Prof Shinji Nishimoto’s paper on reconstructing high-resolution visual images from brain activity using diffusion model]

[EEG earbuds]

[sylversyrfer]

If ONLY this technology could be used solely to help those with serious medical conditions, and to benefit society in general. Sadly, we all know that will NOT be the case.

[cinifiend]

As with all things big tech develops or gets their hands on, it starts out with something positive and beneficial "We can use this to help people who can't communicate". It then goes to the moral grey area "Let's use this technology to convict criminals". Then it goes to the inevitable "Let's use this technology to find people who think about things we disagree with so we can ban them".

[AXKoRnRocks]

I really don't think anyone in the world is ready to let META of all companies to read their minds.

[vandervampi]

I truly believe they’ve reading my thoughts for some time now. It’s like sometimes I’m thinking about something and then a few minutes later it pops up in my Facebook feed.

[andrewcheshire]

Just when you thought Meta couldn't get any creepier, Mark finds away to read your mind and know your thoughts.

[furanduron]

I wonder if it could be used to record dreams or the thoughts of animals.

[Inertia]

On one hand, I would love to see a study on why people become addicted to things, and move closer to helping more addicts find their way out of that spiral.
On the other hand, I am certain that those same studies would be used to get more people addicted to whatever it is that some company needs to sell.

[mbarker_lng]

Sometimes I think of what the future world will be like, then realize we are in that future world. The world is now changing significantly every 10 years or so, while if you lived from the years 1000 to 1040 you probably saw almost no changes. Also- Meta being able to read minds is truly frightening.

[thetalkshop]

My daughter roughly has two seizures a day, and this kind of technology gets me excited. But that’s just the thing, I find that most of this technology enters through the door of helping people. But then companies like Facebook uses this, in ways that we never agreed to have.

[markmuller]

It seems like sci-fi as a genre can't exist anymore because we live inside a sci-fi movie that is actually real

[torch_k]

I’m excited about the university research and absolutely horrified that Meta is doing the same thing

[smonline]

in switzerland, just after pandemic they passed a law on preventive detention at home for up to a year based on conclusions of police of what you might do

[LLlap]

The thing is, our thoughts are just thoughts. You can't identify a thought with a person. People constantly get thoughts they don't want to. Like the urge to step off a ledge. Or your ex constantly invading your thoughts.

[projectnitefall]

We can barely keep society together with what we have now. This is going to break the world I swear. A world where our minds can be read and used against us is a truly scary world I don't even want to begin to think about.

[SpiritmanProductions]

Let's just hope future systems can distinguish between intrusive thoughts that the thinker dismisses and doesn't act upon, and thoughts that lead to action.

[simons]

The thing about the earbuds @13:29 is this tech is in the apple AirPods & probably anything that uses bluetooth.

[paymentmaker]

I've never been more glad to be 59 years old . I used to be pissed about getting older but now in the last couple of years I think it's a good thing

[GregGBM]

Remember when Google's motto was "don't be evil" because companies had ethics on paper? Then they gave it up. Now Meta says "effit haha AI + MRI go

[TioDeive]

It scares me someone or something would be able to freely read minds around. About Meta, the psychosis of Mr. Zuck reached unimaginable levels and that really scares me. This is the ultimate tool for the psychopath who's in charge of Meta to invade everyone's life and profit from it.

[ir]

Imagine having ultra sensitive scanners that can surveil large areas knowing every thought of everyone simultaneously 😮