The implications are...

[Sean]

...amazing and a tad worrying.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16811042

Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words.

The technique reported in PLoS Biology relies on gathering electrical signals directly from patients' brains.

Based on signals from listening patients, a computer model was used to reconstruct the sounds of words that patients were thinking of.

 

[Peregrinator]

Reverse engineer AI time. Wintermute calling.

 

[torchthebitch]

The CIA will be pissed that waterboarding and rendition have just been rendered un-necessary.

 

[Sean]

The CIA will be pissed that waterboarding and rendition have just been rendered un-necessary.

Funnily enough, that's exactly what I thought when John Humphries was interviewing the lead doc this morning.

 

[torchthebitch]

Funnily enough, that's exactly what I thought when John Humphries was interviewing the lead doc this morning.

Fucking excellent pitch for research funding. And if they have any wit they will stretch it as far as they can.

 

[pointless]

well, on the plus side we can maybe eventually finally make movies of our dreams. that's kind of a plus though i'm sure that'll get boring after awhile. also, creepy.

 

[clutch1]

If my wife gets a hold of this technology, I'm really screw'd.

 

[torchthebitch]

If my wife gets a hold of this technology, I'm really screw'd.

For the first time since you married, no doubt.

 

[clutch1]

For the first time since you married, no doubt.

Not that bad yet, but getting there.