[extropy-chat] NASA Develops System To Computerize Silent Speech

Bryan Moss bryan.moss at dsl.pipex.com
Mon Mar 22 00:22:01 UTC 2004


David Lubkin wrote:

> If true, the ripples are significant. Combine with the research on
> non-invasive medical remote sensing and one could monitor someone's
> thoughts without their permission. We may need the human equivalent of
> Tempest shielding before too long.

I think those quotes misrepresent what they're doing.  From the articles
I've read (I don't have links on hand), it sounds like they're picking up
subauditory speech *signals* but they're not translating those into what's
actually spoken, they're using those to say *other* things.  That is, they
can't read what you're "thinking," but they can use the (untranslated)
signals created by what you're "thinking" to control a computer, which can
then be used to communicate via speech (or do anything else).  You have to
be trained to use the system, they can't actually *read* subauditory speech.

BM




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