The possibility of Read the thought without the need for brain implantsit’s a little closer. Meta is testing in Spain a magnetoenphalography scanner, a kind of «hat» that, placed on the head, without implants, allows the user type.
The ultimate goal of Meta It is to learn how the human brain thinks, to instill it to artificial intelligence.
It is also a first step towards the reading of thought using external devicessince this goal helmet does not require cables or implants.
The goal helmet that reads thought
Goal has already announced a device for a few years ago type using the mind. He abandoned it because it was not practical, but has resurrected it again after finding an unexpected application: artificial intelligence.
As collected MIT Technology ReviewMeta has successfully tried this «hat» to type with the mind in the Basque Country.
They call it that, but in reality it is a kind of helmet that weighs half a ton, and is worth two million euros. Meta has been testing it with 35 volunteers from the Basque Center for Cognition, Brain and Language.
The volunteers were thinking about the phrase «the processor executes the instruction», letter by letter, and the Magnetoenphalography scanner He managed to read 80% of the letters correctly.
Maybe for a copyist or a typing is not valid, but it is enough for an AI to fill that 20% of the missing letters, and we already have A machine that reads thought.
The amazing and, at the same time, chilling, is that it does it No brain implants or cablessimply by placing the «hat» on the head.
This device to type with the mind records the magnetic fields that generate the neurons, and try to determine which brain wave is related to each letter.
Since the Earth’s magnetic field, a billion times more powerful than the one that generates the brain, interferes with the results, it is necessary to electromagnetically isolate the room.
The ultimate goal of this experiment is Learn how the brain thinks, to apply it to AI. Jean-Rémic King, head of the «Brain and IA» research team, in the study:
«Trying to understand the architecture or precise principles of the human brain could be a way to improve the development of the intelligence of machines. That is the way.»
The finish box to read the thought that is testing in Spainit is already a reality. At the moment it recognizes 80% of the letters you think, but this is just the beginning …
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