Why Elon Musk, Facebook and MIT Are Betting On Mind-Reading Technology
Elon Musk, Facebook, MIT, and a 16-year-old inventor are in the race to read minds with computers. Currently, researchers can detect brainwaves and track electromagnetic pulses within the neurons in our brains. Will this technology completely change humanity and what it means to be human?
Big players like Elon Musk and Facebook have teased their entrance into a market that's expected to reach $1.72B by 2022. New research is pouring out of universities like Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The University of California in San Francisco.
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Why A 16-Year-Thinks He Can Beat Elon Musk To Mind-Reading Technology
I can't wait for a computer to read all my dark lewd thoughts, put them in an email and send it to everyone without me even noticing.
That is seriously a good prediction of future ransonwares.
You shouldn't care what other people think of you. hehe xd
That would be a interesting SciFi movie plot.
@@cpu6850 I cant wait till i can control a 5 thousand dollar robot to pick grapes, tomatoes, peaches, etc...through a computer brain interface and make 400$ a day.
Relatable 3000
That kid is 16? He sounds like a well established sales man in his 40’s.
I cant wait till i can control a 5 thousand dollar robot to pick grapes, tomatoes, peaches, etc...through a computer brain interface and make 400$ a day.
Narcccc
@tommy aronson agree, chances are the dad is the supervisor.
No he doesn’t all he can say is graphene
@@actualfactual8737 why spam that same comment? i dont think you need a robot, you already sound like one.
Isn't anything sacred anymore. There is a word called privacy
Was
I agree i will keep my thoughts to myself
NOT ANY MORE --- PART OF THE PLAN --- CONTROL OF THE MASSES.
Theres a thing called humanity that's the real victim
I thought about the same thing. No more privacy.
Let’s just be real and acknowledge that this kid's dad runs the company
I see a certain degree of tax avoidance here alright...
Agreed but this kid is obviously gifted for a 16 year old. Even his vocabulary is impressive
@edwong3 Take that kid and throw him in the slums and see what he can "invent".
@@tinkeringengr let's see YOU go to the slums and see what you can invent
it normally when you are rich and intelligent you can build and kind of kid you want
Thought crime coming soon
What if you think something illegal? Do you go to thought prison or a psychologist?
@@Baker.Matthew probably something like minority report tbh.
Psycho pass
Kek
Thought crime is not a crime by law
So what's going on? Are we all so collectively excited about companies developing mind reading tech that will absolutely, without any doubt, be used against us? ... it's like watching the sheep to the slaughter
Futurism taken to the level of blind ideology.
No. This technology is imoral and unethical. It's being used on people right now. It can manipulate thought and dreams.
@@kjones6515 it happened to me ( look up shockley's thesis- Firing Line by William Buckley Jr
I agree, wholeheartedly. Sheep to slaughter. DARPA?
Yes, me I be a cute sheep 🐑 ?
I need to go outside and be alone because it may be a rare thing soon.
Mike Bennett it already is. Wake up
Antichrist system
Covid.... loool
I think therefore I am...
The only true privacy we have is our mind, so now they want to read that too...... Okay....
not true
Your mind is private only if you don't share any information of you through internet, the problem is that almost everyone are sharing what are they thinking on social networks.
@@martiddy we may share a single thought at a time on social media, not everything going on in our brain. Kind of like reading a hard drive...... That would be insane!
@@ttemoj You're right, but I guess the BCI devices are going to implement some kind of advanced security to prevent this kinds of "mind reading" about your personal information in your brain. But the major security problem would not be the hardware, but the people accidentally sharing their passwords or granting access to dangerous virus or spywares from an anonymous user to their BCI device.
Your absolutely correct.
They want to program thoughts into your brain.
Harrison Bergeron
They already do
It's already being done to some people. Look into targeted individuals and organized stalking.
it might get rid of those lewd thoughts you’ve been having.
Antichrist system
Facebook reading our minds is what we definitely need because we love and trust them, Said Nobody.
Pretty sure they've been doing it for years already. Haven't you ever just thought something in your head, never looked it up or searched for it online, and yet a few hours after thinking it the topic just pops up as an advertisement, recommended video, or meme?
Who's here after the Neuralink Livestream?
yup
Me lol
you are so stupid
very inpalsive and informative.
😶
Black Mirror is a documentary from the future, not a sci-fi series
Except it explicitly looks at all of the negatives of technology and is overtly overly pessimistic.
so is westworld
@@Machiavelli2pc Because the people who make the sci fi are pessimistic and it regulates people to see the worst as average
If its from the future... why didnt it arrive earlier? You sure its just not "on time"?
what a time to be alive the acceleration of technology is getting out of hand... slow down
Roko's basilisk is watching you
it's too slow
Sorry but the Bible called this. Human brain & chip implant in order to buy & sell = mark of the beast. Do not be chipped people. Dare you to pick up your Bibles and read!
They were in their hands long time ago...
@@fionappleisthebest Freewill. You’re a Christian. I wouldn’t compare this to the devil lol.
*finally they can read our mind to get the information about what type of catgirl do we want*
*Catgirls. Do you really think we only want the one?
Dude....car girls are.coming.
@@Onii-san I cant wait till i can control a 5 thousand dollar robot to pick grapes, tomatoes, peaches, etc...through a computer brain interface and make 400$ a day.
@@actualfactual8737 I know right? and who said you can only operate one robot with your brain? You can control hundreds of your own muscles currently. With this stuff you could probably control a whole farm robot agriculture community or something crazy!
or you can just tell them
Can't wait to see AVG antivirus for this
W. Antivirus for the brain 🤣
Acyclovir
I wonder how a informatic virus could get in ? It's not like it's a piece of metal translating our thougts and that's it. It will not convert informatic codes into organics matter WTF.
When Alex Jones talked about it years ago, they called him a looney conspiracy theorist.
Alex Jones? Ted Kozinski.
@@edencastillo4417 No, he was saying that there were machines that could read your mind, which is true. The mind control thing is more like influencing or training.
@Hernando Malinche my favourite conspiracy theory is white privilige. Those dudes really tried to meme that one into existence 😂😂
@Hernando Malinche Be that as it may, he was made fun for something that was true.
@@edencastillo4417 You don't have a clue.
3:56 -- "they haven't found the KILLER application and I think that's what we've done." .......Wrong choice of words buddy, revealing the truth, huh?
This sounds like the very worst and extremely scary
Screwing with the natural order should and possible of it turning into mind controlled slaves to a computer.
The mark of the beast
My'Yah Meek Glad people notice the terrifying truth of revelations.
It is they are doing this to me I from Indianapolis Indiana on my lord
@@Nytemarezxz they doing this to me on real live face book and people can die from it I just telling everyone needs to no it's all ready starting and some mixed people and black people started this from Indianapolis Indiana on my lord
This is utterly terrifying, just imagine your darkest secrets and your fears and anxieties being exposed to the world.
This is disgusting. If you only knew how real it is getting.
OOOOOOOOOOOOH!!! So this is what Elon Musk was talking about on Joe Rogan's podcast!!!
Exactly
True. It's all about saving mankind, and people are trying to stop it. As usual.
The Bible called this. Human technology implant in order to buy & sell = mark of the beast. Do not be chipped people. Dare you to pick up your Bibles and read!
Cant wait to wake up to hear "Good morning America! Your day is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends" beamed into my thoughts every day. Thanks Elon
Future is endangered by tech.
Hahagahhaha
tech is just evolution, it is our destiny to merge with it.
They need to come out with something that cures baldness
EazzzY_Three0Three The first FDA approved hair restoration device is now available. It doesn't cure baldness but it can help a lot
I don't need a cure. I just need others to understand how it feels to be vitamin D enhanced.
1life To live is it a real problem or do you think it's a problem because others say so? What's the point of having hair on your head?
They do. It’s called a wig.
A wig
LMAO they already are. KZhead, Facebook & Spotify send me ads based on what I am thinking about. When I first realized, I was creeped out. Now that I am aware of it, it STILL creeps me out. This isn't new.
I don't need to control everything with brain, I just want to be smarter than now.
As a programmer, I find the concept of being able to programme brains VERY interesting
You might find it slightly less interesting on the day your brains openssh service fails and north Korea hacks your brain forcing you to bark like a dog for three days...
@@mickelodiansurname9578 i never laughed so hard in my life
Can we please be given info on how we can be disconnected for a network or legally never added.
having worked with a magnetoencephalogram (MEG), the amount of noise you get from the environment is massive and it has to be in a shielded room. Maybe they're not measuring magnetic fields but electric field (like an EEG)? That'd make way more sense
What they're measuring is the EM from neural body depolarization. Summated over a few billion neurons.
@Hernando Malinche I'm well aware. Opensource BCI has been a passion of mine since I first fell in love with the work of early pioneers like Kevin Warwick and Paul Bach-y-Rita. It is a technology that must happen if we are to survive the coming of AI but we cannot, must not, allow it to be a tool of the corporate and governmental control structure. Open BCI tech, and fostering understanding and ability to construct and use self made bci tech are the only way we can safely and happily survive what is coming.
Actually has more to do with recieving frequencies waves from the brain just like a futuristic well calibrated radio receiver.
@@Nytemarezxz What kind of waves?
Now..say if- certain levels of say:.. certain materials within our body - minerals, or metals as example...what If certain levels in our body where Forced to an increase via threw:food, air, Drugs.. and somehow that certain substance or material dramatically increased the neuron activity or wave activity so that our minds are easily read with technological instrument's???
Mind reading technology already exists. Without using electrodes.
Video: developing for a better future for everyone. -Everyone or just the ones who can afford it? There’s a difference.
this technology has already existed for at least 15 years.
I can't wait to get into the matrix hibernation with this hooked on my head.
I bet you just joking.... sarcasm detected!
Its not for me, I like my thoughts private and I have no problem typing on laptops , I don't want (ever) or need anything in my brain to communicate with a computer.
the most killer application I can see in this is how powerful the technology of fatherhood is
Eh
fatherhood is technology? I didn't know that.
Closer to extintion or total control
Black Mirror coming to life at an even greater extent
I watch articles like this and wonder: What is Apple making? Then I realize: Apple is making money
Anyone who supports this technology is obviously not listening.
I believe it can be fully achieved at zero risk without any surgery and no batteries... just like how prosthetic limbs have perfectly worked without any side effects which will involve visual (or audio cues) to achieve the correct focus. Technology has reached much further than most people can comprehend at the current moment, therefore... it's not that "we" are not paying full attention... there's just not enough information reported because it will require at least 2 hours to cover the topic enough.
This will prevent all RSI cases: RSI costs employers over $80 billion yearly.
There has to be a way to preserve privacy of thought for this to be accepted.
Imagine using this tech for VR
NO GET OUT OF MY HEAD
QUICK, PUT ON YOUR TINFOIL HATS
@@dancingdude32 Will that work ?
This is the level of tech seen in HALO. The Master Chief is able to link with his armor and AI Cortana.
so there will by no personal things that will be a hell
BALAJI GANESAN What you mean?
@@HardKore5250 there will be no secret
@@balajig1986 Privacy in it's most sacred institution, the mind will be completely destroyed.
@@HardKore5250 what he means is the government will control everything you do and watch you on the inside.
Michael Young What if you are wrong?
yeah you always need a sixteen year old "genius" to portray a con. Good work!
Nice..we are getting closer step by step to total control.
We can build mind reading technology but not end wars?...
I cant wait to have computers read my thoughts. Definitely not concerning at all.
When I think of something, a simple thought... I get an advertisement for it.
Cool
Who else is here hoping that the Intelligence Services can monitor what your thinking in real-time?
I heard that, or did i think it and you conveyed my thought? Is that your thought or mines, as so it was...never to be known to have been known by the one who knows....
Awesome! Soon I won’t even have privacy inside my mind.
Celeste Celestial People think this is a great idea. Unbelievable.
How did ever know did to begin with?
It's very sad and horrifying.
I wonder how a device like this would work for indecisive people like myself. Any Ideas? Cause like, I'll be using my phone and playing music, then switch to like an article; however, in terms of what I'm actually thinking, I'll easily toss around far far more activities in prior to actually settling & partaking in a single one (and still tend to change my mind soon after...) I'm sure it's a matter of some clever scripting... ...just suuper luper anxious to know exactly how!
Yes they are speaking as i am commenting, they answer my thoughts precisely in real time, 24x7 and making me see things too, even on sleep and outdoor as well, been 3 years since i notice, sometimes disturbing, how can i stop these people from doing this and get my quitely back.
This will be one of the critical, defining technologies of the 21st century. The human brain is an enormously powerful organic computer, but severely limited by weak output. The amount of data transferred by speaking or typing is very low. A direct high bandwidth IO between the brain and computer systems may be one of the few things that can let us keep up with AI. Regardless of the potential ways to abuse the tech, we're going to be in a very bad place in the second half of the century if AGI works and this doesn't. It may be the difference between working with AI or being replaced by AI.
Sarif was right about one thing. It's in our nature to want to rise above our limits. Think about it. We were cold, so we harnessed fire. We were weak, so we invented tools. Every time we met an obstacle, we used creativity and ingenuity to overcome it. The cycle is inevitable. In the past, we've had to compensate for weaknesses, finding quick solutions that only benefit a few. But what if we never need to feel weak or morally conflicted again? What if the path Sarif wants us to take enables us to hold on to higher values with more stability? One thing is obvious. For the first time in history, we have a chance to steal fire from the gods. To turn away from it now - to stop pursing a future in which technology and biology combine, leading to the promise of a Singularity - would mean to deny the very essence of who we are. No doubt the road to get there will be bumpy, hurting some people along the way. But won't achieving the dream be worth it? We can become the gods we've always been striving to be. We might as well get good at it. - Deus Ex Human Revolution
Does it also emit non native electromagnetic frequencies which create radiation like Bluetooth and cell phones? This is the question I need answered. There are many concerns and no one is addressing them.
So surprising that Facebook would be interested in reading ppls minds 🤷🏼♂️
This is mental.... Literally, but also amazingly technologically advanced
Time well spent so far young man ,keep up the good work.
This will take "forgot to delete my history!" to whole another level, only if our brains had incognito mode :p
Alex Jones was right
Nope. He was not; ever, about anything.
What did he say??
The Bible called this. Human technology implant in order to buy & sell = mark of the beast. Do not be chipped people. Dare you to pick up your Bibles and read!
*Umm...so has anyone else experienced thinking about a specific video and have it being recommended to you on KZhead??? This has happend many times to me. Strange.*
زهرة ههههه yes and that is from part of the predictive algorithm aka the youtube recommend engine. The more you watch the more it learns about you/your account. Take Amazon and how they can predict what you will order and in some cases you can get those items autoshipped without even thinking about needing the product/products.
@@UroChesia Just the other day I cleared my watch and search history, then I was thinking about a a specific video and when I checked the home page on yt it was there. I didnt think much about it before but it's just too acurate that it's scary.
I think this stuff is a little too scary for my lightning the possibilities that can go wrong once we start to understand the technology working really well
They already know how to use it. It's being used to hurt people
@@kjones6515 How do you know that?
So basically Ghost in the Shell...
Pretty much
love the game idea sounds like Sword art online or something crazy like that and im excited about it all and hopefully we can become more bionic.
Wow! Nuralink will help us drive The Auto drive TeslA; huh
lol wouldnt that still allow crazy drivers to convert their crazy driving to the tesla?
@@TheFineFTW I cant wait till i can control a 5 thousand dollar robot to pick grapes, tomatoes, peaches, etc...through a computer brain interface and make 400$ a day.
oh gosh- I don’t think I want a mind reading device, my brain is kinda messed up
Me: has a straight face My thoughts: I wonder what I’m gonna have for lunch today
I am not using them if they cause hair loss
rangermaverick85 Elon hair transplant looks great
Skynet is coming. Except even the people wrote the script for the terminator movies did not imagine giving the machines this kind of power.
Skynet _is Online_
@@Skynet_the_AI except this version Also can read your mind 😟.
@@fredfrond6148 algorithm
Does anyone just stop and consider how absolutely insane, creepy, and dangerous this is? We need to start questioning the things that we are being given right now. These are extremely evil times we live in folks. Don't be decieved
so you are in the third grade, your dad casually comes to your class and speaks about graphene, and you think about its applications in military...ok...ok son
Jesus coming Soon, Get Your Popcorn and watch all these brain chipped Fool's Minds be trapped in the cloud forever
We'll see who laughing last Ya New World Order Sheep
Yes Chad!!! People, The Bible called this. Human technology implant in order to buy & sell = mark of the beast. Do not be chipped people. Dare you to pick up your Bibles and read!
People seem to think it will be optional and done with knowledge and consent.
Jesus isn't coming, but Lord, that was hilarious!
Brother we have to pray for these 'mind chipped fool's', a lot of them don't know what's about to go down. Pray that the people can get prepared for things to come the like the end times, pray that people are aware of the devices of satan like this. Like the bible says.
Omg, i can finally become a toaster
Now the only thing that's missing is that the computer can produce thoughts inside our brain aaand it's full immersive VR. 😆 i want it.
People will create their new master and destroyer. Why do we push the limits of usefulness? Why do we need computers doing the thinking for us?
classify this technology and limit its use. people shoudnt be prosecuted for thought crimes. we need stricter criteria for mental illnesses and thought crimes to protect human liberty.
Oh come on, classify it? Are you serious? That's the worst possible choice here, 1. You cant really classify it since a lot of people already know what this is 2. This is more or less our one defense against AI 3. Even if its classified people are still gonna use it, just in secret, that sounds a lot worse to me!
@@X606 dude even if you have the most powerful cyborg ever, he or she will never be able to catchup with the pure AI that never needs to eat sleep rest take a break or do other things and get distracted, or gets mood swings and under performs, plus an AI doesnt need much spending on it, unlike peole who need to buy food, clothes, items, energy, etc.
@@av8r195 nice comment
The future's gonna be crazy
we're already in the future baby
The future will be short by the looks of things
The future is already now... then .... yesterday. Today. Tomorrow's now.
I am concerned for the public’s intellectual property rights
Imagine being able to converse with another person through someone else. As an example, I'm talking to Joe but Sally who is in a different part of the world is the one placing the thought patterns and retrieving the thought patterns from Joe. So I'm not really talking to Joe, although he acknowledges me, I'm talking to Sally. I now move on to Frank, and Sally continues the conversation. From person to person, Sally continues the conversation. To me, that is the future. It comes down to frequency, and attenuation. Joe says "Hello lovely weather", Frank says " I love the birds chirping", Mandy says " Hows the weather in your house?" Bobby says " The weather here is kind of rough". Your welcome.
You KNOW i Already know.... or at least i "think" you "think" i know. Or so i say so
they've been working on this since the 70s, imagine the advances made in secret. and you wonder why, just look at the paranoia in this comment section
No thanks. I like my thought remaining in my own head.
Thought to text for synthetic speech to prove if stroke victims are still conscious would be a good application.
What kind of journalism bases a story around interviewing a high-school science fair?
The crapy type
Public relations basically where the kid is the awe if kid can deal with so can i.
This is terrifying!!!
Does anyone think of skynet when you hear Elon musk
No. I think of Skynet when I hear US government.
@@internet_internet yeah that too
SKYNET _is Online_
We kind of already do in terms of the Google search engines and conversations a huge majority of peoples thoughts revealed through that.
Yes, but are you okay with your employer putting a chip in your brain?
Chip for what?
This technology has been around since the 90s.It was implemented in a PC game.
I would totally buy a self driving car, a brain interface, I'm not so sure
It's great that that kid and his father are working on this technology. It's hilarious how the video sandwiches it in with a woman saying all the new World order retoric that's driving everyone crazy in the comment section. It's clear to me that the deep State is threatened by independent researches discovering and dispersing knowledge of new technologies. If everyone thinks the only people who ought to use sophisticated technology is evil people.. then that's what we'll get. *Good job* to this kid and his father. I can't wait to do follow up research to stay up to date on them.
Hope to see this technology, or something like it, eventually lead to something that will allow autistic kids who are non-verbal to communicate
Can't wait to have this in North Korea.... and China
How the hell do you know anything about people from the medium of basically a public relations advertisement.
I just want a robot that will do my dishes....
Not too sure that water mixed with electrically powered robots and some ni-cad power packs is really 'what you want'...
I highly doubt these subtitles are produced by AI no way a human would produce such title for anything that sounds cool
Bcos these days machines are learning and humans are hooked. 🤓🤓🤓
And then, the mind uploaded on computer can produce super advanced robotic body for itself, and boom..human evolution and space exploration..or, how bout, hook the computer up to the mind and it will read ur thoughts, then teach you perfectly in the snap of a finger how to REALLY think!! Jus a thought
Pure fantasy. Like Chappe
Mind upload is just fantasy crap
Fantasy at best.... what is this ? A fkg movie? ;)
So that they get inside our head to know customer opinions
They're still focusing on how interfacing with computers is going to help us manipulate the outside world, but inevitably, desire is going to take us to "how do we infuse our consciousness into the digital world so that we can do whatever we want and never leave?"
Nailed it
Instead of getting machines to understand human thoughts, how about we make better humans who understand science, technology and understand all of the world's knowledge so we don't have to rely on machines by having a better & strong brain, that surpasses all AI machines?
This is philanthrophy bro but they are bussinesman
... there were already brainwave headsets out years ago they weren't that expensive my friend bought two different headsets because he was into messing with new tech... they cost around 200 dollars... all of the information they talked in this video already came out with headsets with the same idea that did the same thing -_-..... just depressing history is just repeating itself and people will realize that hey.. this doesn't work very well with current technology... also the jaw/musculature has nothing to do with brainwaves --- in order for what they proposed they would have to have a separate set of algorithms for all speech in every different language in order for it work properly..... if they ask for funding you won't be getting any return...
Facebook would invest $7 billion in Mind-reading technology just to give us more accurate ads
1:20 link to vid?