Meta Just Achieved Mind-Reading Using AI
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Published 2023-11-18
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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[**www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01304-9**](www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01304-9)
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All Comments (21)
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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.
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I really don't think anyone in the world is ready to let META of all companies to read their minds.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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Just when you thought Meta couldn't get any creepier, Mark finds away to read your mind and know your thoughts.
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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
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Imagine having ultra sensitive scanners that can surveil large areas knowing every thought of everyone simultaneously 😮
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It would be a nightmare if Google, Facebook or the Government know what you are thinking at any given moment because everyone have bad thoughts from time to time.
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I wonder if it could be used to record dreams or the thoughts of animals.
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This is equal parts terrifying and fascinating. Imagine, for the fascinating side, having this type of device hooked up while you sleep and dream. No more scrambling with your notepad after waking up to record that epic dream you just had, only to see it vanish from memory before you got it down on paper. The terrifying part? Need I say Facebook? And others?
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I think TicTok is doing something similar with micro-expressions and eye tracking to feed its algorithms. The power of the app's real-time filters is a strong argument for this theory as well as the originating country of China being a complete surveillance state.
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It seems like sci-fi as a genre can't exist anymore because we live inside a sci-fi movie that is actually real
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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.
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"It always gets in the wrong hands, like some of these, 3 letter agency owned social media brands" Right! Great minds think alike 👍
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the mark zuckerberg thumbnails whenever theres a headline like this are always so damn funny and uncanny
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I’m excited about the university research and absolutely horrified that Meta is doing the same thing
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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.
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They’ve used wifi to see through walls to get human poses in real-time. It’s a safe bet that at close range it’s probably already possible to do this with existing wearables like the quest.
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As always brilliant videos. thanks mate.
