Having just gone through it today, I'm imagining getting this from my shiny new neural interface:
"Due to unusual account activity, you must change your password. Please enter 12 characters with at least three upper case and four lowercase letters, punctuation, two UTF-16 and one unprintable ANSI character.
Error: You may not use any password you've ever used (or imagined) previously. Please try again."
This is awesome - when I first read the headline I totally expected something different.
The user has a password to start or stop the BCI from decoding what they are thinking - this way they have control over what is said out loud or translated. Seems like a no brainer.
So it's still not unsettling to you they came up with something that is actually capable of reading your very private thoughts. You're aware the potentially secondary password protection isn't what made this feasible, aren't you.
So... How fast it will start being used to read thoughts nonconsensually? Military and "law enforcement" always wanted something that isn't torture but gets the information out of people.
> When a participant imagined the password ‘Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang’ (the name of an English-language children’s novel) the BCI recognized it with an accuracy of more than 98%.
I wonder how difficult having a conversation about that novel (or film) would be. I imagine you would accidentally start saying your thoughts out loud.
Okay, I'll be honest, this looks very finicky. I've tried to understand the premise of this article, but it all look like just a bunch of random facts and promises, none of which could be traced or confirmed.
I can't tell 100% that the text was machine-generated. I won't be too amazed to find out that it was.
But there is no technology explaining how this thing works.
Is there any way to encrypt your brain's traffic and then handshake a decryption key to the implant to ensure that accidental activations merely result in garbage output?
https://archive.md/8PBtz
Having just gone through it today, I'm imagining getting this from my shiny new neural interface:
"Due to unusual account activity, you must change your password. Please enter 12 characters with at least three upper case and four lowercase letters, punctuation, two UTF-16 and one unprintable ANSI character.
Error: You may not use any password you've ever used (or imagined) previously. Please try again."
https://neal.fun/password-game/
New College Courses in "Critical Thinking", but they really mean "think of a number between 1 and 10"
TBH 74% accuracy is quite impressive for a device that "reads thought sentences".
This is awesome - when I first read the headline I totally expected something different.
The user has a password to start or stop the BCI from decoding what they are thinking - this way they have control over what is said out loud or translated. Seems like a no brainer.
It very much is a brainer
So it's still not unsettling to you they came up with something that is actually capable of reading your very private thoughts. You're aware the potentially secondary password protection isn't what made this feasible, aren't you.
So... How fast it will start being used to read thoughts nonconsensually? Military and "law enforcement" always wanted something that isn't torture but gets the information out of people.
Not anywhere fast taking into account that it requires invasive surgery of the microelectrodes
This is the last thing social retагds on this site and in corrupt industry R&Ds care about.
I assume that's a rhetorical question.
> When a participant imagined the password ‘Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang’ (the name of an English-language children’s novel) the BCI recognized it with an accuracy of more than 98%.
I wonder how difficult having a conversation about that novel (or film) would be. I imagine you would accidentally start saying your thoughts out loud.
Okay, I'll be honest, this looks very finicky. I've tried to understand the premise of this article, but it all look like just a bunch of random facts and promises, none of which could be traced or confirmed.
I can't tell 100% that the text was machine-generated. I won't be too amazed to find out that it was.
But there is no technology explaining how this thing works.
I wonder what happens if you tell the user not to think of their password.
I think that is kinda what Tim Robbins does in the opening scenes of Code46 i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaVXASxNrq4#t=7m35s
That is like playing The Game
(if you know what that is, you just lost)
The last thing we need is more people running around with no filter between their inner thoughts and their vocal apparatus.
Is there any way to encrypt your brain's traffic and then handshake a decryption key to the implant to ensure that accidental activations merely result in garbage output?
You could invent your own language - then think in that. Go oldschool
The drawback to that is, if you lose the key you have to hack your own brain, then loop it through Jones.
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