Pentagon's Mind-Reading Computers Replicate
"Augmented Cognition," the Darpa program to build computer interfaces that adapt to their users' brains, has officially run its course. But efforts to build mind-reading PCs continue throughout the military establishment.
Augmented Cognition relies on the idea that people have more than one kind of working memory, and more than one kind of attention; there are separate slots in the mind for things written, things heard and things seen. By monitoring how taxed those areas of the brain are, it should be possible to change a computer's display to compensate. If people are getting too much visual information, send them a text alert. If they reading too much at once, present some of the data visually -- in a chart or map.
The Air Force has tapped Design Interactive, Inc. to build a battlefield command-and-control system that works along these lines. It's supposed to use EEG and eye-tracking monitors to "assess the operator's actual cognitive state." That way, the system can play around with its "information display" to "avoid cognitive bottlenecks before they occur." And that's just the start. Eventually, the company wants the program to "anticipate future mission state and operator functional state ahead of time," too.
This Air Force has also handed out a contract to Quantum Applied Science and Research, Inc. -- that's right, QUASAR for short -- to perfect a mind-reading interface for squads of killer drones. Supervising all those armed, flying robots might be doable when things are relatively calm. But, in the heat of battle, it might be too much for one puny human mind to handle unassisted.
Darpa isn't done with these technologies, either. The agency plans to spend $12 million next year on brain-science programs like Neurotechnology for Intelligence Analysts. It's an AugCog-inspired effort to tap the firings of the subconscious mind to sort through satellite pictures quickly. Early tests have shown as much as a six-fold increase in the analysts' efficiency, when the computer and the brain work together.
Photo: Jeff Corwin Photography, Boeing
That is almost creepy.
Go f#ck yourself incredible!
Anyone here ever watched Ghost in the Shell? Perhaps a more realizable vision of the future than I've imagined...
Imagine how much the everything we think about war will change when the soldier doesn't even need to show up on the battlefield.
i agree. president bush just needs to be replaced. wait so does the entire government of corrupt mother f**kers!!!
haaaaaaaaaaaa
kghkhkbmfjkujkf, You go get screwed by w. That loser will go down as the worst president this coutry has ever had. Lied to get us to go to war, Triple gas prices since he got in there, Let me remind you he is an oil man & Home foreclosures at an all time high. It's the dumb people that are easiest to hold down!!!
skynet will be going online shortly, do not fear!
zedloch...thats exactly what i thought when i read the article!!!
What a monumental waste of our deficit spending dollars unless our enemies are also researching this.
Spending dollars on scientific research is not a waste bv. Just because our government has swindled our money away on to foreign nations, we can't stop the funding of this type of work.
Our state of technological development and scientific prowess is already bad enough now with the Bush era, lets not make it worse by deciding that funding research is a waste.
Ghost in the Shell; I, Robot; Cowboy Bebop; Just like so many others before them and after them, they are not just telling a fictional story, but rather, they are preparing us for the future. Whether that future includes The Major, Nano-warfare or quantum computers, it is the future.
Don't forget, the government is always 20 years ahead, roughly. Think about what we had 20 years ago. Do you really think the government sees this as threatening? If so, would they let DARPA put it out? This simply means that the government is a full generation ahead of this, and believes they have the means to control it, should a 'civilian' figure out what to do. Just look up Joe Cells, or nuclear devices made from smoke detectors, or Orgone energy, or HHO gas.
The technology is there to do what we want, but we are not allowed to see it. DARPA and NREL and just a facade for what the government could do if it wanted to. Remember, the internet as we now know it was only created in 1991, and the major advances have all come in the past 5 years (google has only needed 2 to develop some of the most powerful, easiest to use applications, which prior to their release were thought impossible. Look up the Vienna Project, now more commonly known as Joost).
Sorry, didn't mean to go conspiracy there, but it really is happening. NREL just came out and said they hit a milestone at 19% efficiency for thin-film solar. 2 years ago we couldn't touch 9% for the same production.
First, there was electromagnetic. Now there is full-digital. Next will be the leap to quantum and 'mental' and 'time/space' flux and so forth.
If you think I am wrong, quote me 10 years from now, and see if we aren't closer to widespread electric vehicle use, the oil crash of 2015, the colonization of Mars starting in 2021. I may be paranoid, but that doesn't mean they aren't out to get me. If the do get me, make sure I am placed in cryostasis.
Now why would Dick Cheney need a hand puppet with an IQ of 95?
This is kinda creepy and the fact that our government is doing sooo much supposedly in the public interest when this public can't make up their own mind as to what their interest is non the less weather funding (more or less) mind reading machines that truly have many applications out side of the military. Such as telling how engaged a driver of a car truly is and to find out ways to correct any errors. Or to make a supper productive office of workers whose computers can anticipate what they will do next and change things around so that the computer is ready to work for them. And ultimately the ability to project peoples thoughts out of their minds and basically taking most peoples last private space away. Validating my statement: Your public is invading my private...
'Go fuck yourself incredible!' is a somewhat funny phrase. Commas help sometimes. Or adverbs. If only Spitzer had taken that advice instead of seeing a prostitute, the media would have had to find a way to drive the Election '08 coverage even further into the ground. I might add though, the most 'taxing' part of that, I would think, would not be the information, but having to wear that while processing it. Hopefully $12m will streamline it a bit. I doubt it. $12m probably won't go very far considering the rate at which the value of the dollar is decreasing. By next year it will probably take $12m to pay for the gas for the researchers to get the the lab. I tried to tie in everything going on right now. Because it's all ridiculous. It's amazing the attention this shit gets when important stuff is actually happening. It reminds me of 'No one died when Clinton lied' except I would now say 'there are over a million dead in Iraq but we don't give a fuck because a Governor fucked a prostitute'. Not exactly parallel or rhyming, I realize, but you get the point. I guess the media are at least talking about politics and government... but still nothing a governING.
Now if only the tek could be used for something important. Like to screen out psychopathic, murderous and fanatical "leaders" and the people around them before they can steal elections and assume office.
Hey kghkhkbmfjkujkf, why don't you run over to Washington and ask if you can kiss W's butt? If it's not available you can kiss mine! BTW, how do you pronounce that name? Looks like a real jawbreaker.
I'm wow-ed by this article. You do include interesting facts about the subconscious mind and how it works. Hmm, do check out http://www.subconscious-mind.org, they have a whole host of interesting and helpful articles. Also,maybe you can use some tips here.
Hah, kghkhkbmfjkujkf is Bush's alias.
George you misspelled it. It's spelled "Idiot Boy".
Well now we know where the future of warefare is going, it's not that expensive skynet tech. Its swarms of killer bee bots.
The Ghost In The Shell and other anime references are very good. I think that is more of a viable danger to 'organic humans' than DNA or stem cell research could ever be.
Replication is evil! I've seen it in Stargate SG-1/Atlantis XD
You've been warned!
You Liberals are funny!
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Bush's IQ is ~115.
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http://www.csbsju.edu/uspp/Election/bush011401.htm
The "Government" has been tapping my mind for years. Now I am totally telepathic, probably trained with your tax dollars.
They hate it when I submit evidence in Federal Court, as a Whistleblower. I blew the whistle on International Signal & Control (ISC)(Selling Arms to Iraq & a $Billion Dollar Fraud) in 1987, and they will not let me alone.
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@AHbd:
The link doesn't prove that, but it does suggest Al Gore is smarter.
This device looks almost exactly like the cover art of my novel, The Aremac Project. The Aremac is a backwards-camera, that take pictures out of the mind and projects them on a screen. The novel explore the first of the societal consequences of such a device.
@demophilus
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...And your point is..?
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You liberals are funny, always changing the subject when the facts don't jibe with your pre-conceived notions!
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With this incredible technology, would it not be possible to augment President Bush's brain to boost his IQ to 95? However, it would probably cheaper to just get another president.