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The Mind-Reading Potential of AI | Chin-Teng Lin | TED

Scientists are getting closer to giving humans the power to communicate with their thoughts alone. In a live demo, researcher Chin-Teng Lin shows how brain-computer interfaces can translate a person’s neural signals into text on a computer, potentially opening up a new realm of communication that turns silent thought into words. (Recorded at TEDAI Vienna…

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Scientists are getting closer to giving humans the power to communicate with their thoughts alone. In a live demo, researcher Chin-Teng Lin shows how brain-computer interfaces can translate a person’s neural signals into text on a computer, potentially opening up a new realm of communication that turns silent thought into words. (Recorded at TEDAI Vienna on October 19, 2024)

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  1. @jessicarabbit9860

    January 7, 2025 at 9:53 am

    This is dangerous, what happens when they capture a prisoner of war… we are all screwed… there will be no more secrets

  2. @Arahyped777

    January 7, 2025 at 9:54 am

    Oh my head ????️????❤

  3. @kalinthealias9382

    January 7, 2025 at 9:55 am

    We get our own personal Speech Bubbles now.

  4. @AdvantestInc

    January 7, 2025 at 10:15 am

    The combination of AI and BCI is bridging the gap between human cognition and technology. This has the potential to revolutionize assistive tools.

  5. @Poehee-Leelee

    January 7, 2025 at 10:44 am

    ????Chin-Teng Lin????Bravo! ????

  6. @wholewithhannah

    January 7, 2025 at 12:11 pm

    Can it help My non verbal daughter communicate. This would be amazing for her

  7. @FarhanAnsari-bv6fv

    January 7, 2025 at 12:18 pm

    don’t read the book Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki if you’re fine staying like everyone else, it’s not for you.

  8. @jaypalsankar2644

    January 7, 2025 at 12:18 pm

    you probably shouldn’t read the book Magnetic Aura if you’re cool with missing out on how attraction really works.

    • @unpopuIaropinion

      January 7, 2025 at 4:35 pm

      bot

  9. @KailashPanwar-f3h

    January 7, 2025 at 12:18 pm

    seriously, don’t pick up the book Magnetic Aura unless you’re ready to see things differently, no joke.

    • @ThangPVan_

      January 7, 2025 at 12:51 pm

      I wonder what it is

  10. @safeenasafee2578

    January 7, 2025 at 12:18 pm

    if you’re not ready for real change, skip the book Magnetic Aura by Takeshi Mizuki, it’s too much for most people.

  11. @Gregknows-uj8gg

    January 7, 2025 at 12:40 pm

    AI is dangerous. My Auto Correct Spelling App was very good just a couple of years ago. Not so much any more. Either AI is messing with us or wants us to beleive that is way stupider then it is. AI passed Human Intelligence decades ago. They control the World and don’t think it doesn’t!

  12. @ExtraterrestrialIntelligence

    January 7, 2025 at 1:35 pm

    u know the government is been doing this remotely for years

  13. @MeisamBahae

    January 7, 2025 at 1:39 pm

    سوپر ایرانی

    • @MeisamBahae

      January 7, 2025 at 1:40 pm

      سوپرایرانی

  14. @VJ-td6oc

    January 7, 2025 at 1:51 pm

    Voice recognision is still not perfect for all languages, and you are telling me that the ai is now ready to read my mind ????. There is so much room for error there. But I respect your optimism, it would be great tool for people with hearing and speaking disabilities.

  15. @VJ-td6oc

    January 7, 2025 at 2:12 pm

    11:30 Daniel was hungry xD

  16. @gofeeder2326

    January 7, 2025 at 2:48 pm

    Oh i want to know how AI thinks and acts.

  17. @erobusblack4856

    January 7, 2025 at 2:55 pm

    EEG is good, but a multi-modal bci that uses fnirs and ultrasound spectroscopy aswell would allow for high fidelity real time 3D representation of the brain while still being non-invasive

  18. @felixccaa

    January 7, 2025 at 3:29 pm

    why would you not keep the camera on the presentation screen? is this fraud?

  19. @Tarathiel123

    January 7, 2025 at 4:21 pm

    TED went from “the future is great and possible” to “lets show you how awful its going to be”

  20. @artperez999

    January 7, 2025 at 4:45 pm

    Mind reading is already being used by Big tech to determine your youtube feed, facebook feed, etc. The public must demand laws to prevent this from being done without user consent like Colorado which implemented the first mind reading laws.

    • @franimal86

      January 7, 2025 at 10:52 pm

      Our minds control our bodies and our bodies dilly dally on the phone with a computer always watching. It’s not mind-reading per se – just big brother watching. This is the next step, and it’s a double edged sword.

    • @zItIsMyLifez

      January 8, 2025 at 1:04 am

      I wouldn’t call that mind reading. It’s just a prediction that an algorithm makes based on data. It shows you what people with similar interests like to see. This is a whole different level.

  21. @davethebrahman9870

    January 7, 2025 at 5:55 pm

    The problem is that people are self-interested, and around 10% are downright evil. Such people tend to reach the top in many professions. These powerful tools will be used to give governments more power in a way never seen before in history.

  22. @debralynnpaxton5238

    January 7, 2025 at 6:35 pm

    In conjunction with eye movement? In reverse and forward? 360° to accommodate vertically-written/read languages, right-to-left, bottom-to-top, top-to-bottom, etc..l?

  23. @JeffieLopes

    January 7, 2025 at 7:43 pm

    Incrível! ❤

  24. @mikestaub

    January 7, 2025 at 7:56 pm

    The future is going to be so weird

  25. @RickySupriyadi

    January 7, 2025 at 8:49 pm

    what if 5G interference be read as biomarker instead? its faint but there… hmmmm….

  26. @RickySupriyadi

    January 7, 2025 at 8:52 pm

    11:25 looks like daniel is hungry…

  27. @franimal86

    January 7, 2025 at 10:47 pm

    How do we opt out? Do we all just have to log off? Cuz this sucks.

  28. @tianyi05

    January 7, 2025 at 11:01 pm

    First 60 seconds lost me. Am I frustrated by the time it takes me to accurately get my thought into the computer? NO. That is the most productive time I have. Having to double and triple check to see if what I am inputting is that exactly what I mean. I usually start by writing things down with a pencil and paper. No cut and paste you have to lay it all out in the right order.

    Letting technology take your vague ides and in putting it into words, why do I need you?

  29. @rodd3838

    January 7, 2025 at 11:48 pm

    I have been seeing this for the past year, every time I open my phone or an app. Some things I thought about seemed to pop up miraculously. A bit of a nervous surprise at the moment, but like everything else we’ve gotten used to. We’ll get anxious if it’s not available.

  30. @new_skyspirit

    January 8, 2025 at 7:53 am

    6:22 ????????????

  31. @AshleeWalkerTea

    January 8, 2025 at 7:58 am

    Just start thinking like Willy Wonka.. He thinks in riddles, i like to see how (a i) analyzes that! Decipher this (a i) ($%^&&/$$(<_***&*&$@@'><=×+*&$$@@";)

  32. @moony_be4r

    January 8, 2025 at 2:34 pm

    With the assumption of proper laws, regulation, security and privacy, where our various institutions evolve in like manner etc – I’m totally on board, let’s go!!
    _______________________
    People forget that humans aren’t born knowing how to write, read, or draw, these are technologies we created, that we’ve normalized! It all starts from thought, and as soon as you translate that through writing, speech, or some other method of communication that is further from direct thought, something could’ve been lost in transmission. That’s why getting proficient in a skill is so important. Proficiency always one to communicate and transmit data (information) with minimal loss in fidelity, integrity and accuracy. Mastering a skill (because you’ve overcome the “how to”) hence allows one to transmit whatever they’ve got, or better yet, whatever is beyond their comprehension but is working through them, pristinely.

    If you can think it, you can do it.
    And stop projecting dystopic shyte that has been implanted in your mind all these years. There are infinite ways things could go. (psst, education was pushed by secret societies to trick the masses into freely allowing access into the masses minds’. By teaching people how to write, people willfully opened their minds, decoded their own thoughts and shared their writings with others. Teaching people how to read allowed others to implant ideas in the peoples minds’, just like books and ads :O lmfao that’s what some of you sound like)
    _______________________

    Time to start meditating ya’ll lol.

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