Ars TechnicaAI plus MRI yields the ability to recognize what the mind is hearing
System can also reconstruct speech a person imagines.
electrical tape@arstechnica mind reading (:
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Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)Yeah, but aluminium is useless for this, the M in MRI stands for Magnetic. They need mu-metal shielding (and lots of it).
I'd be buying up stocks in iron and nickel miners myself.
Peter Held
EvilGinger- Queen of Naps@arstechnica
I can see some practical uses for this tech (after it matures and has become more accurate). Determining depth of injury for a person who suffered a traumatic head injury, traumatic brain injury, stroke, or Alzheimer's. Determining if a person in a comatose state has any functional cognitive and/or reactive brain activity or if any brain activity is just autonomic in nature.
Interesting subject. Thanks.
It may just give someone with locked-in syndrome a voice. At the moment, those who are locked in have at best a very inefficient eye-gaze method of communication, or in some cases, basically can only indicate very rudimentary yes/no responses.
That said, permanently stationing a patient in a MRI machine is not practical, and a device portable enough to be used say, on a wheelchair could have unintended consequences.
@stuartl @arstechnica
I was talking about diagnostic uses. Not daily functional uses.
The tech is new- it will likely mature into practical diagnostic use long before it can be made to be practical for daily functional use for communications and things like "thought control" of smart devices.
I was talking about diagnostic uses. Not daily functional uses.
The tech is new- it will likely mature into practical diagnostic use long before it can be made to be practical for daily functional use for communications and things like "thought control" of smart devices.
Gregnee@arstechnica
Interesting medical applications. I doubt any consumer tech will ever come this. The strength of the magnetic field required for MRI makes it impractical in any but the most controlled environments.
Interesting medical applications. I doubt any consumer tech will ever come this. The strength of the magnetic field required for MRI makes it impractical in any but the most controlled environments.
Mori@arstechnica Well, the free thinkers are stuffed now! 😏