Microsoft Wants to Read Your Mind

[Nigellus]

This is a bit spooky:

Microsoft mind reader

Not content with running your computer, Microsoft now wants to read your mind too.

The company says that it is hard to properly evaluate the way people interact with computers since questioning them at the time is distracting and asking questions later may not produce reliable answers. "Human beings are often poor reporters of their own actions," the company says.

Instead, Microsoft wants to read the data straight from the user's brain as he or she works away. They plan to do this using electroencephalograms (EEGs) to record electrical signals within the brain. The trouble is that EEG data is filled with artefacts caused, for example, by blinking or involuntary actions, and this is hard to tease apart from the cognitive data that Microsoft would like to study.

[qviri]

This is a bit spooky:

As opposed to, I dunno, communicating with a machine by pushing on a little red nib?

[draco2527]

This is a bit spooky:

As opposed to, I dunno, communicating with a machine by pushing on a little red nib?

ROFLMAO...

But using WHO? I have seen it all...from the guy that slams his fist on the laptop keyboard and hits the thing so hard that leaves an indentation on the keyboard...all over something opening "too slowly" (he killed several keyboards and one or two laptops) to the person that has practicaly a "demon" coming out of their computer and saying "it has been doing that for months...I just did not think it was that serious". How do you set a "baseline" and measure that; in particular when the demographics are so broad....

[Rob Mayercik]

Sounds just like Microsoft.

On the other hand, it also sounds like a joke I ran across a while ago - "Microsoft announces Windows TP"

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-121

Rob

[mattbiernat]

This is a bit spooky:

Microsoft mind reader

MS still didn't perfect Speach to Text thing and they've been working on it for how long?
and regarding the mind reader... why the heck would i want to "THINK" about opening a file if I can do it without thinking about it. Some actions we become so used to that we don't even have think about that. Anybody experianced that during a long comute? You turn your brain on autopilot and drive for 2-3 hours... And then you don't even have to think about driving...

[Nigellus]

Absolutely. Most of my traveling is done like that. Makes it difficult to give directions because I don't actively think about how I get anywhere in my hometown.

[BillMorrow]

if M$ tried to read MY mind, they would find a huge dark empty place..

and if the M$ gizmo called out they would eventually hear the few remaining brain cells call back, faintly: "we're all down here"..

[BeeJayEmm]

why the heck would i want to "THINK" about opening a file if I can do it without thinking about it.

Is is possible to do anything without thinking about it? With the possible exceptions of having sex with someone you shouldn't or any action that follows the words "Hey, watch this!"

[mattbiernat]

im not sure what you mean...

[Nigellus]

Is is possible to do anything without thinking about it? With the possible exceptions of having sex with someone you shouldn't or any action that follows the words "Hey, watch this!"

Heh... I know a guy who allegedly shot his own finger off. I say allegedly because I'm sure one of his drinking buddies did it but they changed the story to avoid police involvement. I am convinced that the phrase "Hey, ya'll, watch this" preceded the gunshot.