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Week 6[19-25.11.18] Mind reading

 Can we read in someone else's mind? How difficult it is? Which device and methods can we use to do it? John-Dylan Haynes will answer these questions in the video bellow. 


Questions:
  • What do you think? Can we create the program to read someone else's mind?
  • If in the future there will be more modern methods without big brain scanners, for what can we use this great device?
  • Do you think that can be dangerous for our privacy?


Comments

I think that the privacy is not the main concern here. Think about it: if we will be able to decode a thought, we will be able to modify it, to control it. Won't that mean the logical end of a history? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_history
Unknown said…
I think we can really read, so other people's emotions and man's relation to different information received from the sensory organs, vision, and nerve endings, but not to spell, to read proposals directly from the brain. I often don't know what to say the next sentence, and then the scanner to read this information directly?
We can't use such a device against a person's will, and if they where to be used (except for experiments), rather, it is designed for people who for some reason can't talk or questioning and don't want to say the right information. I don't see other applications of this "great device".
Of course, I don't want someone reading my thoughts. Why would he, he has his own.
I think some day we will be able to do so but, i hope i won't find out myself. For me it is almost biggest threat to our privacy and who know what else. How could you feel safe if you knew soumeone can know what are you thinking. How do you know after reading your mind someone won't be able to control it? Of course it would be also very helpful in many cases but nobody knows how it will grow.
Unknown said…
1. Obviously, right now it's not possible to read someone else's mind. In the future, the rapid development of technology might allow us to create such program.

2. Hopefully it will be illegal or impossible to use those new methods without the other person's consent. I can only hope that the use of those devices will be restricted to the necessary minimum.

3. That is my biggest concern. Our mind and out thoughts are the last bastion of our privacy. If we lose it, the privacy we know of will cease to exist.
Unknown said…
1. In my opinion it will be possible to some extent, experiment with brain codes presented in the video shows that we can apply machine learning techniques to images of brain activities. We could possibly feed a neural network with large enough data set containing training examples of not only images but also sounds, smells or animations and later we can then use trained neural network to decode people’s brain images and try to predict people thoughts, mood or emotions.
2. As it was stated video the most obvious use cases of such solutions would be lie detectors, forensic applications and marketing.
3. It can threaten our privacy when such solutions will be misused or used without actually informing people about scope and real purposes of such a procedure.
Do you think that can be dangerous for our privacy?
I think that everything is impossible in our world. I don't care a lot about it, but i believe in this "magic". What's about creating program, i don't think we will have it in closest future. We can use brain scanners that you mentioned above as lie detectors, for anti-terrorism and etc. Of course, i would be dangerous for our privacy, would you mind if i go to your head and got all the information about you, your family, your secrets, money and etc?
Filip Sawicki said…
I hope that we won’t be able to create such a device in the future. Implications of mind reading device could be devastating. This device would certainly be used to manipulate and deceive other people, gain political power or money in unmoral ways. For example politicians could read our mind on various subjects and later use them against us for their benefits while we wouldn’t even notice anything suspicious. Just imagine a world where everything is public even your thinking, it would be a horrific nightmare that even communists wouldn’t dare to create (however this might already take place as in China, but that’s a vast topic).

I think that creating such a program is a matter of time, thanks to him we will certainly be able to scan
someone's mind. I think that these devices will be used to control eg aircraft, etc.
Under the privacy account, there will be some threats to our privacy
1.What do you think? Can we create the program to read someone else's mind?
If we were to create a program that could read someone’s mind I think that the closest we could possibly get to is the ability of defining the person’s reaction due to the microexpression. I would recommend TV series called “The Mentalist”. It pretty much highlights the most common techniques used by ‘mind readers’.
2.If in the future there will be more modern methods without big brain scanners, for what can we use this great device?
I think the most humanitarian way of using such a powerful machine would be to use it in communication with paralyzed people and the ones who are being hospitalized without the actual possibility of communication with their loved ones.
3.Do you think that can be dangerous for our privacy?
Using a quote from Spider-man would be the most appropriate answer to that question. “With great power comes great repsonsibility”
Unknown said…
I think it's certain, but some more is needed to create it. Everyone dreams of reading to the other person in the head, especially men women :D
I think it will cause a great deal of controversy, but such systems should only be considered during court hearings and so on. This would exclude many errors.
Unknown said…
I think decoding a thought have different mechanism than modifying. Think about it as a program. If we read something from file we use different function than if we rewrite something and save. But yes this is very dangerous and if we can decode mind we can transfer it into the computer like in movie Transcendence.
Unknown said…
Yes, it is very dangerous and a lot of people can have paranoid about it. For example nowadays in America there are a lot of people who wears aluminum hats to save himself from UFO.
Unknown said…
This is good idea! Probably we need very powerful computer to do this but it is possible not impossible.
Unknown said…
Yes, I agree with that. If they create such a device, it will be very strange to walk in city and have in mind that someone read your mind.
Unknown said…
I didn't think about it. It will be awesome if in the feature we will be able to control vehicle/aircraft or robots by just thinking. Just wooow.
Unknown said…
As a child I always wanted to have such a skill as reading in others mind. Growing up, you realizes that such a skill would not be good for our mental health. Sometimes it is better not to know what other people think about us and to live with this in ignorance. At the moment, we do not have the technology to read someone's mind thoroughly. It would not have been better because it is one of the few private things that we still have, what will it be like to take it from us?
The first of the positive things that could be used for such a machine is catching dangerous criminals and reading them in their minds about the crimes committed by them. Such a machine would also serve for better communication between machines or even people.
As I mentioned earlier, when this happens, we will not have any privacy.
Unknown said…
Yes I watched „The mentalist” great series. Answer for third question: masterpiece xd
Unknown said…
Yes, he agrees with you. The less we know the better.
In my opinion there is a possibility to create some program that can recognize what we are thinking about but in not precise form. I mean it won't produce your thoughts word by word.
The first thing which comes to my mind is security. I guess some of the airports are already testing 'mind reading' security system. On the other hand if fall in wrong hands it will be catastrophic.
I'm not sure that this technology can somehow harm us. Most probably it will be used in marketing which is also no that good.
Unknown said…
1. First thing first - mind reading in general, is based on a emotions, then conecting the dots and puting it in logical integrity - in my opinion of course. I think, that all our though are conected to our emotions - something that AI can not understand in the wat that human beign does. But despite all of that, I think that maybe someday this machine rise and surprise all of us, someday..
2. I think comunicating with people in their vegetative state will be one of the option. Another one is Interrogation - it could be simpler that way ;)
3. I don't know, it all depends of how this technology will be used.
Unknown said…
With today technologies it is hard to say about our privacy. So when the government lays their hands on that kind of the mind reader device, it will be useless to even opposite with this idea.
I think that this is possible but first of all where must be made huge amount of work to invent more progressive ways to read brain signals.

I think that in future we will be connected in to one network using technology that develop for example "Neurolink" and there no need to read minds in tricky way because our brain will be already connected to network one thing that important is security of this interfaces because I think that if some who will hack this interface he will be able to read a lot of information from target brain.
Personally, I think in future we can create the program to read someone else's mind in some way. Most definitely, we will need more computing power and more studies about brain. I am not sure that we will able to directly read thoughts accurately and maybe it's good. Overall, it's great that we study our complex and unique brain.
This device may be used for medical treatment, marketing, lie detectors (it's scary) , security devices. A lot of opportunities and on other hand a lot of threats.
I am one hundred percent sure, no doubts it can be dangerous for our privacy. Thoughts are the most intimate that every person has. This technology in wrong hands can destroy people's fates.
We can define sites of a brain which are responsible for the movement of a hand and to help the person who has no hand. I think, to read thoughts not to turn out. It is too difficult. We use computer technologies, actually it is primitive in comparison with a brain. I think that it is worth trying to do it. I hope that it to turn out. If such device appears, then it will be a great event. It will be strong weapon. There is a question in whose hands weapon will appear.
Obviously, we can’t create a program that could read someone else’s mind. As shown by John-Dylan Haynes, the best we can do is guess. I doubt any human ever comes even close to that point. Let’s see what happens with the latest and future advancements in Machine Learning — maybe scientists will be able to train a computer whose main purpose would be to create an equivalent of rosetta stone for „brain language”.

I think at some point on an infinite timeline, humans will be able to create a more convenient device to monitor electrical biosignals, but that’s clearly not a priority for now.

Of course, such devices could present a threat to our privacy (and life) if misused or abused. However, mass brain surveillance is comic book level science fiction in my opinion.

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