I am both impressed and scared lol the future is going to be an interesting place for sure.

Robots have been doing an awful lot for us lately: filling in as nursemaids, scaring our world champion chess players. Isn’t it about time we returned the favor? A new brain-computer interface, developed by Professor Paul Sajda at Columbia University, pulls a tricky role-reversal on the traditional human-machine relationship. Instead of using a computer to give the grant the disabled a new voice or improved mobility, Sajda’s project uses the processing power of the brain to solve problems faster than a computer can manage alone.

Good job, brain; we always knew you had it in ya. Here’s how Sajda’s brain-computer interface uses the unconscious mind to process images at incredible speeds.

The key to Sajda’s research is tapping into the power of the unconscious mind. The conscious mind has a weakness--it takes a long time to take a defined concept and search for it. In this case, Sajda’s example is “funny looking.” Coming up with that qualifier and plugging it into a Google Image search takes a few seconds. Computers have a weakness, too--they’re not good at recognizing vague categories like “funny looking.” But we can make that distinction near-instantly in the unconscious, before our waking mind even realizes what we’re looking at.

Sajda’s device, cortically coupled computer vision or C3Vision for short, shows a test subject 10 images a second while their mind is monitored by an EEG cap. The team developed an algorithm to recognize and rank which items the brain registers as interesting. It’s then able to grab other pictures  similar to the highest-ranked images that grabbed our attention. Our brain is able to differentiate between the images that interest us and the ones that don’t before our conscious mind enters into the picture.

Images that surprise us will naturally score highly as well. The ability to measure unconscious reactions poses a wealth of possibility to advertising agencies that wish to track the influence of their ads. But that’s just one possible use scenario. C3Vision has already spawned a company, Neuromatters, with $4.6 million in funding from DARPA. What will our brains do next?

http://www.tested.com/news/human-brain-lends-computer-some-helpful-processing-power/1414/

Real life inception here I come!

Wii 2 leaked....

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Mr.Metralha said: Wii 2 leaked.... oh god...

In Russia the Wii plays you

This sounds like an extension on Kevin Warwick's work. He used brain cells from a Rat to control a robot. Computers are great at remembering numbers, but rubbish at analysing images, where as brains are the opposite. We can analyse images, such as faces, very well, but struggle to remember more than a few numbers. Ideally the perfect machine would need to be able to do both. This is taking the brains ability to analyse images and using it because its better than a computer. Pretty cool.

 

And what the hell did they do to my face?

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zarx said: I am both impressed and scared lol the future is going to be an interesting place for sure. Robots have been doing an awful lot for us lately: filling in as nursemaids, scaring our world champion chess players. Isn’t it about time we returned the favor? A new brain-computer interface, developed by Professor Paul Sajda at Columbia University, pulls a tricky role-reversal on the traditional human-machine relationship. Instead of using a computer to give the grant the disabled a new voice or improved mobility, Sajda’s project uses the processing power of the brain to solve problems faster than a computer can manage alone. Good job, brain; we always knew you had it in ya. Here’s how Sajda’s brain-computer interface uses the unconscious mind to process images at incredible speeds. The key to Sajda’s research is tapping into the power of the unconscious mind. The conscious mind has a weakness--it takes a long time to take a defined concept and search for it. In this case, Sajda’s example is “funny looking.” Coming up with that qualifier and plugging it into a Google Image search takes a few seconds. Computers have a weakness, too--they’re not good at recognizing vague categories like “funny looking.” But we can make that distinction near-instantly in the unconscious, before our waking mind even realizes what we’re looking at.   Sajda’s device, cortically coupled computer vision or C3Vision for short, shows a test subject 10 images a second while their mind is monitored by an EEG cap. The team developed an algorithm to recognize and rank which items the brain registers as interesting. It’s then able to grab other pictures  similar to the highest-ranked images that grabbed our attention. Our brain is able to differentiate between the images that interest us and the ones that don’t before our conscious mind enters into the picture. Images that surprise us will naturally score highly as well. The ability to measure unconscious reactions poses a wealth of possibility to advertising agencies that wish to track the influence of their ads. But that’s just one possible use scenario. C3Vision has already spawned a company, Neuromatters, with $4.6 million in funding from DARPA. What will our brains do next? http://www.tested.com/news/human-brain-lends-computer-some-helpful-processing-power/1414/

Brain it only does everthing

highwaystar101 said: This sounds like an extension on Kevin Warwick's work. He used brain cells from a Rat to control a robot. Computers are great at remembering numbers, but rubbish at analysing images, where as brains are the opposite. We can analyse images, such as faces, very well, but struggle to remember more than a few numbers. Ideally the perfect machine would need to be able to do both. This is taking the brains ability to analyse images and using it because its better than a computer. Pretty cool.   And what the hell did they do to my face?

The borg put skin on it and then when Captain Awesome punctured the plasma coolant tanks, it burned the skin off on your face. You don't remember?