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  • The Torment-Nexus industrial complex continues to grow. Would really love to have a conversation with researchers who work on these kinds of things. I'm sure there are peripheral avenues that this research will open up, but how do you just ignore the very obvious dystopia that you are working to bring to fruition?

    Deemphasizing the humanities in STEM education is turning into a disaster.

    by b00ty4breakfast
  • Wait a minute, they can hear my internal monologue???
    by BobbyTables2
  • I'm not interested in seeing this technology progress any further. The ability to read someone's inner, unspoken thoughts is too easy to weaponize against them.

    I wonder whether a subject could poison the process by consciously thinking about something unrelated in the same way that public speakers used to get past stage-fright. As you look out across the audience picture something funny, like your boss in a pink tutu.

    by doodlebugging
  • Put another way, EEG moves top-10 retrieval out of 512 candidate words from 20.3% -> 27.7%. Hardly "open-vocabulary word decoding"

    The paper is also missing a critical control of feeding Llama the preceding ground-truth text and asking how well it ranks the current word among the same candidate set.

    by tbenst
  • Am I reading it right that they are claiming about ~%15 word prediction accuracy?
    by SubiculumCode
  • Having proper sub-vocalization interfaces would be so cool! A 19-channel EEG does seem a bit invasive though (from a social aspect, I understand that it's used here in a medical context).
    by PMunch
  • This isn't a miraculous step toward mind reading, I think, since much could be deduced about silent reading from subvocalization before. My understanding is that it is a very distinctive process.

    We laugh hearing that the library of Alexandria was noisy with people reading the texts out loud, thinking 'how dumb were they?' -- just as they considered it a miracle when they came upon one who read silently. But though there is training the difference is slight; the advance to keeping one's mouth shut pretty much boils down to keeping one's mouth shut and doing everything else the same.

    by applicative
  • It would be nice to add a "right to private thought" to the Bill of Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as something similar to other countries' rights and freedoms laws wherever possible.
    by dustfinger

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