Is it possible to have future computers that could read mind?

Philippines
June 22, 2010 7:32pm CST
with curiosity, i don't know if this sounds good or whatsoever but nowadays the trends exist faster and faster. now there's table computer, and also programs that exists in IRON MAN movie.etc. Is it possible to our master programmers to make such programs like computer that could read what do mans think and what he sees, what he wants to think after doing such things??
5 responses
• Singapore
26 Jun 10
I think it's currently possible by reading brain waves or stuffs. Who knows, maybe in future even a human can read another human's mind . Technology is getting more and more advanced now .
@o0jopak0o (6394)
• Philippines
23 Jun 10
well reading thoughts i think will still be a long way. But there are now gadgets that let machines see what we see. but i think peoples habit can be easily used by robots to understand us. Like for example what you like to eat and such. If there is a robot that can somehow predict what we want by our past habits then i think this is the fastest way somehow a machine can read our minds.
@Bionicman (3958)
• Czech Republic
23 Jun 10
Yeah, there are already games that you can control by your mind. It's based on emotions and so far you can play only simple games like tetris or pong Here's the video from the old prototype but the final version is already out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxMux4uEkLI
@roxyoo7 (246)
• India
23 Jun 10
Yeah this is very much possible.Infact scientists have been working on it from a long time.A computer scientist, Tom Mitchell, and a cognitive neuroscientist, Marcel Just, both of Carnegie Mellon University conducted a research regarding this.Earlier they had shown that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can detect and locate brain activity when a person thinks about a specific word.This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF)and the W.M. Keck Foundation. With the help of this data,the researchers developed a computational model that helps a computer to correctly determine what word a research subject was thinking about by analyzing brain scan data. In their recent work, they used fMRI data to develop a more sophisticated computational model that can predict the brain activation patterns associated with concrete nouns, or things that we experience through our senses, even if the computer did not already have the fMRI data for that specific noun. The researchers first built a model that took the fMRI activation patterns for 60 concrete nouns broken down into 12 categories including animals, body parts, buildings, clothing, insects, vehicles and vegetables.The model also analyzed a text corpus, or a set of texts that contained more than a trillion words, noting how each noun was used in relation to a set of 25 verbs associated with sensory or motor functions. Combining the brain scan information with the analysis of the text corpus, the computer then predicted the brain activity pattern of thousands of other concrete nouns.
• Philippines
23 Jun 10
Yes it's absolutley possible!!! But we don't know the answer when and how.