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    Big Brother of the Brain Is Here

    A behavioral neurologist spells out the danger. The post Big Brother of the Brain Is Here appeared first on Nautilus.
    by Adolfo Plasencia Jul 02, 2024 3 minutes

    ecently, a group of Australian researchers demonstrated a “mind-reading” system called . The system can, according to its creators, convert thoughts (recorded with a non-invasive electrode helmet) into words that are displayed on a screen. Essentially, BrainGPT connects a multitasking EEG encoder to a large language model capable of decoding coherent and readable sentences from EEG signals. Is the mind, , still a safe place to think one’s thoughts? I spoke with Harvard-based behavioral neurologist Alvaro Pascual-Leone, a leader

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