https://www.cbsnews.com/news/functio...es-2020-09-06/
Who among us hasn't wished we could read someone else's mind, know exactly what they're thinking? Well that's impossible, of course, since our thoughts are, more than anything else, our own -- private, personal, unreachable. Or at least that's what we've always, well, thought.
60 Minutes Rewind: Revisit our first report on mind reading, from 2009
As we reported last fall, advances in neuroscience have shown that, on a physical level, our thoughts are actually a vast network of neurons firing all across our brains. So if that brain activity could be identified and analyzed, could our thoughts be decoded? Could our minds be read? Well a team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh has spent more than a decade trying to do just that. We started our reporting on their work 10 years ago, and what they've discovered since, has drawn us back.
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/arc...0-minutes.html
Additionally, this will also be used to facilitate the way A.I. robots "think" about objects they see and words they hear.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/link/mind-readers
For Mitchell, this new insight into the function of the human brain presents an opportunity for computer scientists to reconsider some of their architectures. "One of the main problems in artificial intelligence is (deciding) how robots should represent the myriad things they see in the world," he says.
The human brain could store information about the word "tomatoes" much like a dictionary would, lodging it in the frontal cortex where higher reasoning takes place. Instead, the brain seems to use its sensory and motor sections to store the bulk of this information. Doing so may help the brain operate more efficiently, allowing it to make inferences about what it sees and reason about how to act on that information in the same areas of the brain where perception takes place.
"That's very different than how it's done in robots today," Mitchell says. "Maybe there's a reason the brain does it that way and maybe we should give that a little thought."
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