“Mind reading machine”, which had so far only seemed to be a product of science fiction, becomes reality – writes in the latest issue of the London weekly “Nature”. A team of American scientists – using a scanner similar to these, which are used to diagnose sick people – constructed a computerized system, which can read in the brain the images observed by humans at any given moment. In practice, a machine “he reads” to, what the human mind records. It functions with great precision: the computer can read nine out of ten pictures correctly, whereas in the case of mere guesswork, the ratio would be eight to a thousand. Research by designers “mind reading machines” they open – According to “Nature” – the perspective of reading thoughts and images viewed during sleep or memories, seemingly wiped out of consciousness. American researchers even put forward a hypothesis, that the new technique could be applied to discovery over time “crimes committed only in thought”, which, moreover, would be a serious threat to privacy and civil rights.
For now, the scanner in its first version is able to record the work of the brain while a human is viewing views or hundreds of photos, color or black and white. Operator, from which these views or photos are obscured, he sees them by scanning the work of the examined person's brain, that is, he looks at them through the brain of the examined person. During one of the experiments, the subject was shown 120 photos and images, and the researcher using the scanner read correctly with the computer 90 percentage of them. – In the future, we will be able to track a person's dreams with a machine and read memories in their memory, which faded into his consciousness – prof. Jack Galliant, a neurologist at the University of Berkeley (California), which leads the team of scientists conducting the described research. According to Galliant, for 30 do 50 for years, this technique will be completely available to the public. – It only depends on us what use we make of it – the scholar added.
There is already a mind reading machine
