Student Maps Brain to Image Search

StonyandCher writes to mention that a University of Ottawa grad student is creating a search engine for visual images that will be powered by a system mapped from the human brain. "Woodbeck said he has already created a prototype of the search engine based on his patent, which apes the way the brain processes visual information and tries to take advantage of currently-available graphics processing capabilities in PCs. 'The brain is very parallel. There's lots of things going on at once,' he said. 'Graphics processors are also very parallel, so it's a case of almost mapping the brain onto graphics processors, getting them to process visual information more effectively.'"

why do I get the feeling that this is going to ...

[zappepcs]

turn out like a bad nightmare after watching A clockwork Orange ??

Re:brain based search?

[MarsDefenseMinister]

Car keys are always in the last place you look, so we know that brain based searching is inefficient at best.

Careful whose brain you use...

[butterwise]

You might end up with a search engine that just looks for pr0n.

Re:brain based search?

[zippthorne]

You're making quite an assumption, there. They might be in the last place you look, but I make sure to keep looking after I find 'em every so often, just to avoid that awful cliché.

The best part is, you can put "finding the keys" in any percentile you want, just by looking some more. Heck, you can really screw with the average by looking for 'em occasionally when you already know where they are.