I don’t know. Now that you explain how it works, it’s starting to worry me. Imagine being hooked up to an ML model designed to classify whether you’re thinking about porn or not, and emits a beep whenever it detects it. The implications of that are astonishing, if it’s accurate.
It hinges on accuracy. If it can detect a topic, the image reconstruction is almost moot, because you can start interrogating people about what they know.
I wish I knew more about biology to know whether this is at all feasible, or if it’s just smoke and mirrors. (A distressing number of projects like this are to secure further funding for a lab, not really to advance science.)
Since you seem to know about this, do you have any details about the classification process? I assume it requires the cooperation of the user, but it’s easy to imagine that a “primal brainwave” pattern might be common to all humans.
It hinges on accuracy. If it can detect a topic, the image reconstruction is almost moot, because you can start interrogating people about what they know.
I wish I knew more about biology to know whether this is at all feasible, or if it’s just smoke and mirrors. (A distressing number of projects like this are to secure further funding for a lab, not really to advance science.)
Since you seem to know about this, do you have any details about the classification process? I assume it requires the cooperation of the user, but it’s easy to imagine that a “primal brainwave” pattern might be common to all humans.