Robot Interprets, Plays Back Dreams 142
foobarx writes "Digital artists have created a humanoid robot which uses brainwave activity recorded during sleep to playback an interpretation of your dreams. The artists, Brendan Burns and Fernando Orellana used machine learning to find patterns in the brainwaves and then matched these patterns to dreams which they remembered having. Others have noted the possible hazards of this new technology."
Just Imagine.... (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, I know what you mean! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Just Imagine.... (Score:5, Funny)
Just trying to help get you out of trouble.
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Re:Just Imagine.... (Score:5, Funny)
A man and his wife just married and were going into their new home. The man was carrying his wife over the threshold and said to her, "Honey, did you ever in your wildest dreams think I'd be carrying you over the threshold into a big new beautiful home?"
The wife responded, "I hate to break this to you, but you're not in my wildest dreams."
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So fascinating as this robot is, it's rather redundant for me.
What? (Score:2, Funny)
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Why is this torment!!!
One interesting feeling that I would never forget, is dieing in my sleep. It was a weird cold rush starting from my limbs rushing inwards, almost reaching my heart as I woke with a very deep inhale, and felt the exact opposite, as the coldness rushed outwards. I had it twice in one night. Episode one: CSI, I was shot. I was also the detective solving the case. Episode 2: I
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I just restart the level.
Seriously - I know that sounds like a joke, and it is a humourous comment on my lifestyle for sure, but it is true. Everything goes black, and I find myself back at an earlier point in the dream, whereupon I do something different to avoid dying.
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You mean . . . .? (Score:2)
Ya mean, like mind control?
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It's nothing more than a sophisticated puppet; is it likely that the puppeteer of a Punch and Judy show will start feeding people to crocodiles and bashing folks over the head with a policeman's truncheon?
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a. The robot communicates to the brain in assisting the location of where ever the brain waves are.
b. The brain then communicates with the robot via the brain waves
It would like a mind meld.
However I would not propose to turn the robot into anything but fireplace lighter.
Re:You mean . . . .? (Score:5, Insightful)
The robot--if such a word is even really appropriate--has only read access. There is no input from the device to the brain--there are only sensors reading the electrical and motor impulses. There's no "determination" of where the impulses are--there are merely changes recorded by sensors which the operator places on the head that passively read the electric fields.
The device does not in any way, shape, or form 'write' to the brain at all.
This is nowhere near a 'mind meld'--if anything, it's like a video camera that records electrical activity rather than visual spectrum activity.
No Matrix bots for you. Sorry. You'll have to wait a while before you can meet Agent Smith.
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I mean, it's already known that your thoughts can shape the water crystals [wikipedia.org].
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Or, in other words, no measurable effect.
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Re:You mean . . . .? (Score:5, Funny)
Put the batteries in the other way round.. I mean duh, it isn't exactly brain surgery.
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It's an interesting 5th Amendment argument that your dreams would be giving testimony against yourself. Our technology is SO far beyond what the Founding Fathers could ever dream of that we're in uncharted waters.
Re: You mean . . . .? (Score:4, Funny)
Is the RIAA gonna sue you for infringement?
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My dreams usually have the sound track of Prince in the background
Re:You mean . . . .? (Score:5, Insightful)
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It's an interesting 5th Amendment argument that your dreams would be giving testimony against yourself.
Not really an argument. You have the 5th amendment right to prevent the government from compelling anything from you, be it speech or DNA or, in some rare instances, fingerprints. You just need to know to stand up for that right.
Don't want to tell the police officer you were speeding? Just don't answer. ("Do you know how fast you were going?" "yes")
Don't want to take that breathalyzer? Forfeit your license and you're fine.
Don't want to sign that statement the police put in front of you? Don't. (Just
Re:You mean . . . .? (Score:5, Informative)
The 5th Amendment does NOT stop the police from forcing you to participate in a lineup.
The 5th Amendment does NOT stop the police from requesting a handwriting sample or a fingerprint.
The 5th Amendment does NOT stop the police from requesting a voice sample.
See, eg here [reason.com] ("It is long settled law that fingerprinting does not violate the Fifth Amendment's guarantee against compelled self-incrimination or the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures. Indeed, much non-testimonial evidence does not fall under those constitutional protections, including the analysis of blood and breath for alcohol. Samples of semen, hair, and other tissues may be taken without a suspect's consent.").
See also Schember v. California, where the Supreme Court reiterated that the 5th Amendment protects against compelled testimony primarily in the spoken word sense. Blood tests weren't compelled "testimony," even if they were "compelled" in the sense that they were forcible, over protests.
We can write laws that prohibit forced fingerprints, or forced handwriting samples -- call your Congressperson and tell them to do so if that's what you believe. But there's no right in the Constitution about that.
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Wow. I'm not going to visit America unless they make the police force all female - and preferably all prom queens, or runners up.
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In the case of dreams though they're created by your own subconscious mind, so they would be, in effect, a form of testimony against yourself. They're essentially asking your subconscious mind what you're thinking about.
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If there were an unsolved crime and one piece of information was missing from the report; and you dream of the crime - WITH - that information in it; then, in theory, that would point a finger at you.
The weight of that finger would depend
Re:You mean . . . .? (Score:5, Funny)
FRY: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
LEELA: Of course.
FRY: But, how is that possible?
PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg.
[He shows an egg and injects it with liquid from a syringe until the egg explodes.]
PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH: Although, in reality, it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
LEELA: Didn't you have ads in the twentieth century?
FRY: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio... and in magazines... and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree.
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chmod 444
From the hazards... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'll pass on this one...
Re:From the hazards... (Score:4, Funny)
"Uhhh, I was eating a hot dog."
"Wow! Most of your dreams the last few weeks you sure do love eating hot dogs!"
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Interesting to me because I know 1 of the artists (Score:5, Interesting)
Paging Dr. Haber... (Score:2)
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Raises the question.. (Score:4, Interesting)
Of course! (Score:2)
Just using a machine to carry out your dirty work does not let you off the hook.
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I don't think they'd actually allow the robot a chance to do anything illegal or otherwise harmful. but if they for whatever reason allowed this and the robot did do something illegal [strangled your boss for example] what evidence could be brought forward that you did or did not intend for it to happen, after all it was in your dreams or was it? what if the rob
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I've had a few lucid dreams myself, but never consciously. I find th
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Interestingly, I can wake myself up from nightmares in a similar fashion - if the dream starts becoming to disturbing, my brain seems to just go, "Uhuh, this ain't happening!" and I pull myself out of the dream. It really does feel like being pulled, too - like I was immersed in molasses and I'm pulling myself up and out of them. Without the stickiness of course...(and since we'
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Dreams are partly crisis exercises (Score:2)
Re:Dreams are partly crisis exercises (Score:5, Funny)
For example, they can be an excellent reason to make fun of your friends.
A speculation machine? (Score:5, Interesting)
"Might" do? So, if I'm experiencing high-activity REM, I might be flying...or I might be scared? There's a big difference between those two activities (well, alt least there is for me).
It sounds like Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns have created a robot whose function is to speculate wildly on what someone might have been dreaming.
Big deal. I can do that right now, and I can do it for free.
Re:A speculation machine? (Score:5, Insightful)
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My reading is that... (Score:2)
But honey... (Score:5, Funny)
Dumped, Fired, Arrest, or punched in the Weiner? (Score:1)
Doesn't so much interpret dreams... (Score:4, Informative)
Better headline: (Score:5, Funny)
Even Better headline: (Score:2)
-Rick
T-Shirt remix (Score:2)
minority report? (Score:1)
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If I dream in Code (Score:5, Funny)
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Philp K. Dick wants to know.... (Score:3, Interesting)
Yeah, robots reading human dreams, but whoop. Wake me up when we can read robot dreams. When we find out if they dream of electric sheep, then you'll have something.
Seth
Obligatory pbf (Score:2)
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Oblig: (Score:5, Funny)
Fry: Bender, wake up!
Bender: I was having the most wonderful dream. I think you were in it.
Futurama (Score:1)
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Bender: [murmuring in his sleep] Kill all humans, kill all humans, must kill all...
Fry: Bender, wake up!
Bender: I was having the most wonderful dream. I think you were in it.
Fry: Uh...listen Bender, uh, where's your bathroom?
Bender: Bathwhat?
Fry: Bathroom.
Bender: What room?
Fry: Bathroom!
Bender: What what?
Fry: Ah, never mind.
[Bender dozes off immediately]
Bender: [murmuring in his sleep] Hey, baby... wanna kill all humans?
Yes, But Will It Allow Me to FINISH the Dream? (Score:1)
I don't know how many times dreams have ended just as they were about to get really good. . .
The $500 mystic... future /. meme? (Score:3, Funny)
We can all think of things that 'might' go wrong, or that could be misused, but aside from that I can see a whole lot of 'my dream robot/interpreter/$500 mystic told me
- I should not date you anymore
- rice-a-roni causes cancer
- my dog/cat saw your children playing doctor/nurses
- President Bush is a reptile
Yes, I can forsee some crazy shit coming out of this technology
I'm reminded of the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Score:4, Interesting)
The sailors quickly decide they don't want to go there after all.
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And then they end up there anyway. Cue a passage of what is basically Lovecraftian horror in a children's story. Fabulous. Many of the best-loved authors were able to give chi
PK Dick will be pleased (Score:2)
Oblig. (Score:2)
Speaking of Wet Dreams . . . (Score:1)
Mine? I'm too old, he'd probably keel over with a circuit overload.
Error in the code (Score:2)
Not completely accurate interpretations (Score:2)
Robot 'plays back' dreams (Score:3, Funny)
The Dreamcatcher 3000. (Score:2)
http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF160-The_Dreamcatcher3000.gif [pbfcomics.com]
Hazards...? (Score:2, Funny)
Accessories (Score:1)
Freud.com (Score:2)
"Dream Man" Not A Threat, Says Roboticist (Score:5, Funny)
"Reverse engineering Dream Man's weapon is definitely something I look forward to. Albert's stupid ideas never fail to crack me up", added Light.
Light also announced that he will be sending the autonomous weapon of mass destruction codenamed "Mega Man" to destroy Dream Man along with seven other so called "Robot Masters", which form the latest iteration in the ongoing Light/Wily feud that has been waged since Wily's theft of several robot prototypes from Light Labs in 199X.
The United Nations Security Council has announced that it fully supports Light, even though like usual it has no idea about what's actually going on or why the world is supposed to be in danger. They do, however, support anyone who stands up to would-be world dominators, especially ones they perceive as zany.
Meanwhile, Light has drawn considerable criticism over discarding the weapon data from the last encounter with Wily's Robot Masters. During the conflicts, Light reverse-engineers the weapons used by the Robot Masters in order to provide Mega Man with additional firepower. However, as soon as Wily is defeated, the new weapons are summarily discarded in what Light's detractors see as a display of shortsightedness.
"Seriously", so Japanese Minister of Defense Shigeru Ishiba, "even though Dream Man doesn't look very threatening, he might prove difficult to defeat with just a puny plasma cannon. A few Crash bombs or a burst of Atomic Fire would probably do him in easily, but as Light insists on throwing away perfectly good weapon data Rockman [as the Japanese call Mega Man] is going to have a bit of a fight ahead of him."
Ishiba added that Japan would be happy to provide cover fire or E-tanks if needed.
Yes, another comic! (Score:1)
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New form of Porn? (Score:2)
I wonder.. (Score:1)
My dream from this morning... (Score:2)
I had been called in for an interview for a head football coach at a certain university and was hired. (I'm a software QA engineer by trade... I played football in high school as a freshman... why I would be hired, I have no idea.) Anyway, I decided to take it, because who wouldn't want a chance to try and be a football coach. Well, I was hired because they wanted to give a nobody, an unheard of, a chance to rebuild a pretty depleted team (like 20 gu
I wonder if Jon Kovalic read this story (Score:2)
The Only Robot I Want To Dream About or With (Score:2)
Dream recall may be vague (Score:1)
All this is nice and well, but the relation to the topic is that dreams are
So wrong it's out the other side (Score:3, Informative)
TFA: > Using an algorithm, the creators discovered a set of brainwave patterns, to each pattern a pre-programmed behavior was assigned.
They *assigned* a pre-programmed behavior to an EEG pattern. The programmed behavior has nothing to do with what was actually going on in the mind.
They seem to entirely skip over the fact that EEG patterns can be identical to the point of high statistical significance and be cause by extremely different stimuli.
"Using an algorithm".... well, that makes it all scientifical and everything, so that's OK then. What a verbal turd.
Max Headroom (Score:2)
Dreamcatcher 3000 (Score:2, Funny)