Having just gone through it today, I'm imagining getting this from my shiny new neural interface:
"Due to unusual account activity, you must change your password. Please enter 12 characters with at least three upper case and four lowercase letters, punctuation, two UTF-16 and one unprintable ANSI character.
Error: You may not use any password you've ever used (or imagined) previously. Please try again."
This is awesome - when I first read the headline I totally expected something different.
The user has a password to start or stop the BCI from decoding what they are thinking - this way they have control over what is said out loud or translated. Seems like a no brainer.
Okay, I'll be honest, this looks very finicky. I've tried to understand the premise of this article, but it all look like just a bunch of random facts and promises, none of which could be traced or confirmed.
I can't tell 100% that the text was machine-generated. I won't be too amazed to find out that it was.
But there is no technology explaining how this thing works.
So... How fast it will start being used to read thoughts nonconsensually? Military and "law enforcement" always wanted something that isn't torture but gets the information out of people.
> When a participant imagined the password ‘Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang’ (the name of an English-language children’s novel) the BCI recognized it with an accuracy of more than 98%.
I wonder how difficult having a conversation about that novel (or film) would be. I imagine you would accidentally start saying your thoughts out loud.
Is there any way to encrypt your brain's traffic and then handshake a decryption key to the implant to ensure that accidental activations merely result in garbage output?
"Due to unusual account activity, you must change your password. Please enter 12 characters with at least three upper case and four lowercase letters, punctuation, two UTF-16 and one unprintable ANSI character.
Error: You may not use any password you've ever used (or imagined) previously. Please try again."
The user has a password to start or stop the BCI from decoding what they are thinking - this way they have control over what is said out loud or translated. Seems like a no brainer.
I can't tell 100% that the text was machine-generated. I won't be too amazed to find out that it was.
But there is no technology explaining how this thing works.
I wonder how difficult having a conversation about that novel (or film) would be. I imagine you would accidentally start saying your thoughts out loud.
(if you know what that is, you just lost)