Neuroscientists At MIT Developing DNI 126
coolphysco1010 wrote to discuss the possible development of a direct neural interface, ala 'The Matrix', that could eventually allow for instant object recognition. From the article: "Now, neuroscientists in the McGovern Institute at MIT have been able to decipher a part of the code involved in recognizing visual objects. Practically speaking, computer algorithms used in artificial vision systems might benefit from mimicking these newly uncovered codes ... In a fraction of a second, visual input about an object runs from the retina through increasingly higher levels of the visual stream, continuously reformatting the information until it reaches the highest purely visual level, the inferotemporal (IT) cortex. The IT cortex identifies and categorizes the object and sends that information to other brain regions."
Poor Monkeys (Score:3, Insightful)
It's about time! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Just recordings (Score:3, Insightful)
Important to remember that these monkeys were trained on a limited stimulus set, so its not that you can tell what the monkey is looking at by loooking at the recordings without knowing it is one of these pre-trained items.
Re:What if... (Score:2, Insightful)
Jeez.
MIT still behind the times (Score:1, Insightful)
Seriously. Don't exacerbate the inflated delusions of these guys by pretending that their research is unique or "cutting-edge". Expect more of them.