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Lapsa ◴[] No.45957619[source]
more or less same crap is achieved via radiomyography from your local telecom towers. down to deciphering your inner monologue
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BriggyDwiggs42 ◴[] No.45966608[source]
Were this the case, it would be trivial to read the internal monologue from your brain activity with a device placed on your head. Can you find me examples of medical devices that can do this?
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Lapsa ◴[] No.45969562[source]
here's an example - you can download and run code for yourself https://github.com/CNN-for-EEG-classification/CNN-EEG
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BriggyDwiggs42 ◴[] No.45974892[source]
That’s just a library that applies a CNN to EEG, but that doesn’t show that it can actually extract text reliably. As far as I know, the machines that successfully do that use the nerve signals to vocal muscles, not the brain directly.
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Lapsa ◴[] No.45976690[source]
this particular library may not be as reliable as one would like to. but the approach is fairly simplistic and likely without an access to powerful data center computation power. as far as (!) you know - you have already acknowledged existence of such machines. what I'm advocating for is existence of slightly more exotic sensing mechanisms - available to be used en masse straight from the telecom towers. RMG as a successful substitute for EMG (which in turn is a substitute for EEG) in context of deciphering whatever data captured into inner monologue.
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BriggyDwiggs42 ◴[] No.45976788[source]
My logic is pretty simple. If it’s hard or impossible to do something by placing a high conductivity sensor on the surface of a person’s skin, then it’s probably not possible to do it from a long distance right now. Doing this with telecom towers, which are randomly positioned relative to people, would be an absolute technological marvel, sci fi stuff.
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1. Lapsa ◴[] No.45977195[source]
I don't think it's that hard nor impossible. I mean - here's a dude playing a video game with (!) somebody else's hand https://www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/27/researcher-contro... 12 years ago