Algorithm Accurately Reconstructs Faces From A Monkey’s Brain Waves

[rcjordan]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/06/02/brain-waves-faces/

Interesting ...in an ominous  sort of way.

[ergophobe]

And in 5 years, your smartphone will read your mind - currently 90% accurate at numbers...
https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/871068025109303296?cn=bWVzc2FnZQ%3D%3D

[BoL]

Great for criminal line-ups I would suppose, and evidence... unless the patterns are hackable with training (I'd suspect probably not as they'd be fairly primal)

[Brad]

>hackable

Wave a banana around while monkey brain is memorizing or identifying.

[ergophobe]

unless the patterns are hackable with training

From everything I've read, these patterns only emerge as language after training. That is, if you want to translate brainwaves into language, the person needs to learn how to think. Or perhaps more accurately, how to talk using subvocalizations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization

The facial reconstruction thing from chimps is new territory... very interesting

[simplytheresa]

Whoa! Super interesting! I'm also excited because the full Cell article is available online. I don't have time to look through it in depth right now, but a few notes:

- Although they used fMRI to initially identify the face cell clusters, it looks like the actual data was collected via "electrophysiological recordings" --> tungsten needles. Very specific and invasive.
- Also, these are not memories of faces, but faces that the monkeys were looking at while the recordings were being taken. Memories are going to be much more complicated.