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Scientists recorded a Pink Floyd song from patients’ brain waves. The tech could eventually allow for communication without words::Listen here.

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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google just sucking the thoughts out of your head to serve you more rELeVanT ads🤩🤩

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

And that's how we went full circle back to the invasive porn ads of the early 00s

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

Cool for the disabled to have another means of communication but I personally wouldn't want a literal mind-reading implant put in.

[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, that guy is listening to Pink Floyd in his head without paying a licensing fee!!

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guess we'll have to remove it.

[–] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BourneHavoc@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Just to be safe, yes.

[–] wabafee@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can already imagine a Amazon warehouse worker have his brain waves monitored and gets reprimanded everytime he is not focused. They would probably reason it out that it's for safety reasons.

[–] blue_zephyr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You've already had your 5 minute happy thought break. Go back to being miserable!

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And you know it'll eventually become true

[–] clgoh@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

And they didn't even use "Brain Damage".

[–] emptyother@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

and eventually, for anyone who wants to work more efficiently

Oh.. How many years until we have Deus Ex Human Revolution in real life?

[–] mall_ninja@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

This tech will be used to "personalize" your ads. And by personalize, I mean convince you that it truly is a life-or-death situation that you buy whatever monthly subscription they're advertising.

[–] OrdinaryAlien@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We already can do it. I can't imagine a life without it. It makes things easier. Really. I hope humans can achieve it soon.

[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kinda scary if this becomes reality. I can see a few cases where this can be good and many cases where it won't be good at all.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 12 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


It may not always be that way, and that’s a good thing for patients unable to speak due to neurological problems—and eventually, for anyone who wants to work more efficiently, researchers at the University of California Berkeley say.

While receiving surgery they hoped would cure intractable seizures, Pink Floyd’s 1979 single “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1” played in the operating room.

Using artificial intelligence, Bellier was able to reconstruct the song from that electrical activity in each patient’s brain, according to an article published Tuesday in the journal PLoS Biology.

Bellier’s work will be used to develop even better brain-machine interfaces, which can be used by paralyzed patients like the late Stephen Hawking to express themselves, Knight said—only not so robotically, and eventually, perhaps, merely by thinking.

If the technology is streamlined, it may eventually aid those without disabling conditions—think thought workers—more easily sync with a computer to type text from their minds.

As for the potential of privacy concerns to develop, Bellier said he’d be more worried about what Big Tech knows about us now, thanks to the monitoring and tracking of online activity.


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[–] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

So... job interviews are going to become even more humiliating in future?

[–] ThePantser@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Captain Pike could do more than beep beep?

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, he just didn’t want to.

[–] TheYear2525@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Next step, Guantanamo Bay.

[–] Downcount@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know how it sounds in the original version of Dark Star (1973/John Carpenter) but it sounds quite similar how Commander Powell, being in cryogenic suspension and "speaking" through some brain-computer interface, sounds in the German synced version.