I hate to be the one to bring this to everybody’s attention, but a team from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia and a neurotechnology company has developed an “electroencephalography cap,” coupled with a “generative artificial intelligence system,” that makes it possible to read minds.
(True.) Makes you wish you had one that time you heard, “Maybe it’s time for you and me to move in together.”
I imagine the electroencephalography cap to be a helmet with a Disney ray-gun beaming at everybody. You meet up with an acquaintance: “Good afternoon, I hope you’re doing well.” While you’re thinking, “Whoa, your cologne... could kill remaining life forms at Chernobyl.”
In reality, we don’t know what a thought is, but we do know that it’s formed with language components. These new mind-reading systems would be deciphering words that aren’t spoken by noting where the cap sensor bounces about in your brain. It’s every thought with no clothes or even a bath towel to cover your private neural connections—connections that could question where you acquired your sex education.
The potential to read minds and manipulate communications is upon us. According to the researchers in Australia, they have actually done it. They’ve read the mind of a mouse. (True.) Now, what the mouse was thinking hasn’t been revealed, but it could be something as simple as “You got anything more interesting than Cheese Whiz?”
According to their research, they’ve also managed to decipher the mental language of human volunteers with an accuracy rate at around 40 percent—with significantly greater accuracy in many other test volunteers.
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