What words am I thinking of?
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012Horrible Outcome.
“Near-sighted humans develop the brain-reading tech future Robot Overlords will use to find and eradicate last remnants of our species”
“Leading sex researchers predict knowing what people think during sex likely to end sex altogether, eradicating species.”
“New tech dooms ‘High five up high, down low, too slow’ trick to extinction, world’s Uncles out of ideas.”
Or, as the stiff-upper-lipped BBC editor went with, “Science decodes ‘internal voices’.” Whatever, Beeb.
Science decodes ‘internal voices’
By Jason Palmer, Science and technology reporter, BBC News
Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words.
The technique reported in PLoS Biology relies on gathering electrical signals directly from patients’ brains.
Based on signals from listening patients, a computer model was used to reconstruct the sounds of words that patients were thinking of.
