Can AI read our minds? Probably not, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be worried

[BootinUp]

imo: AI LLM type data analysis of neural activity could be quite useful.
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Earlier this year, Neuralink implanted a chip inside the brain of 29-year-old US man Noland Arbaugh, who is paralysed from the shoulders down. The chip has enabled Arbaugh to move a mouse pointer on a screen just by imagining it moving.

In May 2023, US researchers also announced a non-invasive way to “decode” the words someone is thinking from brain scans in combination with generative AI. A similar project sparked headlines about a “mind-reading AI hat”.

Can neural implants and generative AI really “read minds”? Is the day coming when computers can spit out accurate real-time transcripts of our thoughts for anyone to read?

Such technology might have some benefits – particularly for advertisers looking for new sources of customer targeting data – but it would demolish the last bastion of privacy: the seclusion of our own minds. Before we panic, though, we should stop to ask: is what neural implants and generative AI can do really “reading minds”?

Continued :https://theconversation.com/can-ai-read-our-minds-probably-not-but-that-doesnt-mean-we-shouldnt-be-worried-227057

[Lovie777]

1. Human emotions.............................

we have been around for millions of years.

We still can't figure it out.

[lapfog_1]

2. note the date... "AI" is not new...

Current Generative AI is ELIZA on steroids... able to "learn" how to respond by ingesting and relating huge ( and I mean really huge ) amounts of data and then doing exactly ( more or less ) what Eliza did in 1967... trying to emulate a conversation by predicting the next word or set of words that match your query. But it does not "think".

[BootinUp]

3. After watching the MIT lecture I posted earlier on AI deep learning

AI neural networks, I do have an appreciation of the newer technolgy as a data analysis tool. Quite powerful. For almost any kind of big data analysis.

[lapfog_1]

4. yes of course. It is possibly the most disruptive technology ever invented.

what the malls did to the downtown mom and pops, the web did to the malls, AI will do to so many fields it is hard to comprehend.

The disruption to the economy will be massive.

Like so many things... it is a tool that we can use. or misuse.

[Jim__]

5. "Such technology might have some benefits - particularly for advertisers ..."

Yes, and benefits for advertisers are probably not benefits for most people.

Recently there were ads on TV for some product that could help bipolar people. The ads featured a woman, in a manic state, online and buying all sorts of expensive camera equipment that she couldn't afford. We all have our moments of weakness when we are susceptible to pitches from advertisers. My expectation is that AI will develop in that direction, pitching ads at us when we are most vulnerable. That potential aspect of AI definitely worries me.