TweetCoincidentally, after I finished my post yesterday, I had an email in my inbox from a friend with a link to this article from The Daily Galaxy. The article discusses a University of Florida study about using a BCI combined with learning algorithms to teach rats how to do a successively harder task. The computer, …
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My Mind Has A Mind Of Its Own
TweetSometimes I wonder if thought controlled computers would be a bad thing. During a business meeting daydream would I accidentally surf porn? Fortunately the technology doesn’t work like that yet. But the technology for mind controlled computers (or brain-computer interface) is coming along. Already three products exist or will soon exist on the market: the …
Sign of the Singularity
TweetVernor Vinge, the mathematician and author, once predicted the technological singularity which states that computational technology once achieving a certain threshold would accelerate past human intelligence. This possibility sounds like fiction, but it’s a concern serious technologists have voiced. Recently, a team of researchers in Aberystwyth Univserity in Wales, created a robot that could formulate theories and …