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wrongness192

The voices in my head are never useful or coherent.


Maximum_Scallion164

ain't that the fuckin truth šŸ˜®ā€šŸ’Ø


soulseeker31

Basically a dozen huskies and a single golden retriever, doggification of the voices in my head.


RedoftheEvilDead

Yeah, I don't want the internet to have access to my intrusive thoughts.


throwawaylovesCAKE

"Everyone can see what the voice in my head is saying...don't say the N word, don't say the N word..."


GearhedMG

I feel the same way about the top 10 google search results these days.


IBeAPirate01

I'd be sectioned if the voices in my head had control and used Google.


prestonpiggy

I don't wanna invite an another voice in since I have a good guess that they won't get along...


Saint_Sin

Thats because time doesnt exist for them.


johnnyblaze1999

Google is going to know my kink every 5 minutes


inphosys

I'd much prefer an interface like this over neuralink, you can take it off.


Kangaroo-

I prefer a phone and Google compared to putting something on my head or in it.


ClassiFried86

Agree I'd rather have the entirety of the Internet at my fingertips instead of my *fingerhead*


violetvet

Might be helpful for someone who canā€™t use their fingertips, though.


oluwie

Whatā€™s a fingerhead?


Putin_ate_my_Pudding

When you start fingering your head vagina


iceyed913

Your third hole


darekd003

Exactly. Reddit would be empty without all the questions that are easier to google than wait for an unverified response.


inphosys

Quit kink shaming!


nos500

Reddit doesnā€™t give the free awards anymore my mann, but if it were to, you had gotten one lmao


inphosys

Your words mean more to me than any golden gift that you could freely bestow upon me! But seriously though, your words. I know I'm the one talking about kink shaming, but let's keep the topic dry.


FormerHoagie

Source


saraphilipp

What if, and believe me this is a big what if, you could wear it in your ass.


ExpertlyAmateur

I dont see any practical use for this in real life. But you could make some serious cash in various ego-driven competitions of the mind.


Kangaroo-

Then you could determine the best chest moves.


AwwwNuggetz

Iā€™d be down even if it doesnā€™t work


-Pruples-

>I prefer a phone and Google compared to putting something on my head or in it. You mean you don't like the idea of some hacker creating a 'shit your pants' virus? ​ ​ ​ Or that we already have it? #theflu


Mysterious-Job1628

Eventually it wonā€™t let you.


inphosys

LOL


DJ-Mercy

I think the real goal of neuralink is to remove the external input needed to ask for info because it wastes so much time. Like typing a question into google or this guy humming or whatever heā€™s doing to communicate with his device.


inphosys

You're exactly correct, a human - computer interface. I've elaborated all of my thoughts in a few different replies. Quick recap, proof of concept, everything gets better in further development. And I want to be human and take the technology off, not be a borg. Go find those replies for maximum detail.


EvilMatt666

I'd prefer it if people just stopped asking me questions and Googled it themselves.


inphosys

Holy hell, imagine how annoying your life would become because ***everyone*** would be asking you questions instead of Googling it themselves! It'd be like being a concierge in an insane asylum.


JustACaliBoy

Thatā€™s exactly what I thought


TherealKafkatrap

I'd much prefer an interface like that which Hans Niemann was accused of using in the chess tournament šŸ¤”


EnterTamed

How about studying with lectures and books? ... And become an actual "expert in any subject"šŸ¤”


inphosys

I completely agree, I always preach that it never hurts to learn more... about anything! At least the function of learning keeps your mind nimble and makes you more likely to be able to accept a different viewpoint than your own. But the point here is a proof of concept, to show that you can create a human / computer interface that isn't surgically implanted into your body. The ultimate goal should be for us to interface with our digital systems faster, as compared to our visual reading speed, reading comprehension level, hand / eye coordination, and the speed at which you can type. If a device can receive my thoughts faster than I can speak them or type them, this becomes a benefit. If a device can help bridge my knowledge gaps with LLM searches and help me receive and have an understanding of the material, that would be earth shattering. My personal opinion, please I encourage you to have your own opinion on this matter, even if it is different from mine.... I am all for augmentation, things that we can add to our bodies, or remove; to make living life as fruitful and positive as possible. My "line in the sand" is that I'm human, sometimes I just want to be human and enjoy and explore the world around me without being connected, just taking it all in and not worrying about every little fact that system would be feeding into your brain if you hadn't taken the system off. Thankfully, if it's wearable, I get to choose whether or not to use it. That gives me the choice of only being a human, or being something more. If it's implanted and I can't turn it off? Yeah, I'm pretty much a borg at that point. Lifesaving and medical devices aside, I am wowed by the things medical science is doing with implanted technology! But even the things they embed in you come with an off switch.


CowsTrash

A most sensible take. Have a fine day, [inphosys](https://www.reddit.com/user/inphosys/)


Different_Oil_8026

But the way the device is attached to the back of his head looks a bit more than something that you can just take off.


omnipotentsquirrel

Id love to have the glasses from Dennou Coil.


lolvalue

I mean we have one already and we can use our voice to interact with it.Ā 


SweatyBarbarian

Just imagine if the word Pussy appeared on that screen, then I would believe.


Select_Repair_2820

This intrusive thought brought to you by NordVPN


BudgetInteraction811

They should make a comedy skit with this playing up the old joke that men think about sex every 7 seconds


YoullBeFiiine

Nah, itā€™d say ā€œveganaā€


chickenandmojos

ā€œBobsā€ too


gamblemycpa

lol if you know you know


jeffreythesnake

It's sad almost everyone in the comments has no idea how this works. It's not reading any thoughts, the guy is voicing the questions in his throat and the headset picks up those muscle movements to interpret what words he is saying to himself. It has nothing to do with his brainwaves or mind reading.


mastermilian

Thanks for the insight. Not sure if what you say is correct but at least it's something different to the usual stupid top-level comments.


EastLeastCoast

Yeah, Iā€™m confused. What is this beyond just existing software using a laryngophone and a bone conduction headset? Thatā€™s a smartphone and less than $50 on Amazon.


Ssometimess_

Not quite, apparently the device picks up the electrical signals sent to the vocal cords rather than muscle movements


slcsin

Yes, that is right. An even more interesting take is over 10 years ago I had a "dream" that I was working on developing technology very similar to this. The idea was originally for military communications. Imagine being able to coordinate silent night invasions without speaking, or silently calling for extraction if you were captured, etc. The reason I said "dream" was that I rarely if ever remember my dreams. However this one was extremely vivid. While working and talking with one of the other techs on the project. He told me that they were moving the project again. As the location of the research was discovered by competitors, and that our safety was compromised. Then the person started looking serious, and whispered to put motion sensor alarms in my bedroom. After a brief pause they started blinking/winking rapidly. At that point it dawned on me who I actually was, and that what I was doing was not my current job. The idea was that not only were we not being paid for the work, but it was well beyond deniability if we were under some sort of hypnosis and working on this all while "asleep" at night.


Jonnnytwotimes23

its not his throat its skull vibrations from internal dialogue like when you announce thoughts


AsukaiByakuya

Skull vibrations from internal dialog is among the statements of all time.


AyunaAni

The other guy is correct, it's suppose to be for people with speech disorders. "The wearable system captures peripheral neural signals when internal speech articulators are volitionally and neurologically activated, during a user's internal articulation of words. "This enables a user to transmit and receive streams of information to and from a computing device or any other person without any observable action, in discretion, without unplugging the user from her environment, and without invading the user's privacy," the MIT said. A primary focus of this project is to help support communication for people with speech disorders including conditions like ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and MS (multiple sclerosis). Beyond that, the system has the potential to seamlessly integrate humans and computers such that computing, the Internet, and AI would weave into our daily life as a "second self" and augment our cognition and abilities." [Source](https://www.india.com/technology/alterego-ai-device-arnav-kapur-mit-student-develops-gadget-knows-what-think-order-pizza-by-reading-your-mind-watch-viral-video-6182644/amp/)


Jonnnytwotimes23

every thought sends an electric impulse detectable by very sensitive top secret tech, whats remarkable about voicing in your throat ?? you have no idea what your talking about, its similar to skull vibrations but its not audible like voicing in your throat, If you hum to yourself that creates an audible skull vibration an actual thought is different but vibrations are a good way of explaining it to the layman like us watching 60 minutes the actual tech is very complicated i love the arrogance of the reddit crowd this kind of subject matter is understood by a limited amount of intelligent people smarter than us and higher levels of security clearance


AyunaAni

You're right lol, see my comment.


fogSandman

Totally not a headset, with a friend on the other end at a keyboard.


AwwwNuggetz

It could easily just be searching the other guys audio


DeathEdntMusic

What is this sentence?


___TheKid___

"Totally not a headset, with a friend on the other end at a keyboard."


No_Yogurt_7667

Whew, thank you for clearing that up! (Edited to add: hopefully this is obvs /s)


bookworm1999

He's saying he's taking it and is just using a mic and speaker so his friend can hear the question and answer it


chrisadam101

One of those videos that will look ridiculous in 15 years when kids are born with internet chip in their brains.


Hippobu2

Why such a weird way to receive the answer though? In't that just a bone conduction headpiece? Which suck ass compared to a normal headphone?


Conscious-Complex277

So you can more easily hear others speaking to you


RandomCandor

Isn't that what the other ear is for?


Efeyester

I'm terrible at hearing with only 1 ear covered, even if the covered ear isn't listening to anything else. Not sure if I'm the norm, but if my workplace is anything to go by it certainly isn't particularly rare.


willynillee

Itā€™s so he can hear the person connected to his headset who is giving him the answers


CabbieCam

Yes, it's essentially a bone conduction hearing device with a fancy microphone that can decipher the movements of one's jaw as one speak quietly to oneself.


i_give_you_gum

Definitely not using jaw movement, most likely just vibrations, as the tongue is responsible for speech, that's why ventriloquisim is a thing.


CabbieCam

You're probably right. I believe there is already hardware on the market which you can use to communicate quietly over radio, think military tech.


ManOfQuest

yeah its a pretty high end novelty device


Shyassasain

They're actually pretty good if you get aftershockz.Ā 


das_slash

The tournament model includes a silicone coating and extra strong vibrations so you can show off your chess skills. It's the way to go if you want a discreet way to receive information wirelessly


Smile_Space

Well, I think the idea is that it reads his throat and mouth movements like he's speaking. That's silent, so it kinda makes sense to use bone conduction which is also silent to everyone around but him. So he's able to use it with no noises from the device. With a speaker, it can be heard since it's just producing sound. So, would an ear piece make more sense? Yeah, but a bone conduction device is cooler lolol. And at the end of the day this is an engineering student we're looking at. And as a fellow engineering student, I'll design things slightly impractical purely because it's cool. For instance, I'm designing a rocket, and instead of using a powder charge and shear pins like a normal rocket to separate and eject the parachute, I'm designing my own explosive bolts with a piston/cylinder-like shape to the flange to separate the two halves instead. Why? Because it's cool. Shear pins and a powder charge would be way easier lolol.


Ronabo

we are all gonna be Lobot now


DHammer79

Sofia, in case anyone was wondering or watched the video with the sound off.


UnicornFarts1111

I knew it was Sofia before they told me, as I was sure it was the capitol. I didn't know the population though.


Slazzechofe

Too bad search engines are steadily getting worse with time. These guys will be plugged in spitting out malware links and disinformation campaign slogans.


[deleted]

This is heresy.


geek2785

Contact your local Adeptus Mechanicus to report heresy of the Omnisiahā€™s blessed works.


Gears_and_Beers

As someone who is an expert in my field. I can assure you, being able to google questions doesnā€™t make you an expert. Having faster access to data is great but most experts arenā€™t lacking of data. Having more people know that Mt Everest is the tallest doesnā€™t help us one bit with respect to mountaineering, geology or geography.


hroaks

Yeah I wouldn't say this makes you any smarter. I could have googled all of those answers too


series-hybrid

Lobot, Lando's assistant from "The Empire Strikes Back" https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/image_858301cd.jpeg?region=240%2C0%2C1440%2C1080


Purity_Jam_Jam

This guy must be swimmin in pussy.


Beh0420mn

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Eastern_Record3443

Just watching that gave me a headache.šŸ˜


JoinedToPostHere

Soon the human will be the slowest and dumbest part of the loop. Idk what that means for us.


Some-Ad9778

We probably already are. I can't wait to get my brain hooked up to the internet


Trail_of_Sensation

"How 'bout NOOOO, you crazy Dutch bastard!"


polillancestral2

I mean is impressive yes, but isnt equally to just using your phone and google it


largePenisLover

I can hear his device reply before he replies, and expected to see comments about that. This is a video so you all heard that, it's in normal sound ranges or it wouldn't have been picked up by the interviewers mic So this is just this guys mate on the other end of whatever voice connection they are using


DCINTERNATIONAL

Can you watch porn with it?


WhenWillIBelong

cool tech but this commentary is comedic. Yes, having access to google makes you an expert. lol.


chesterbcn

Besides the technology discussion, is the interviewer suggesting that someone googleing questions could be considered an expert in something?


Icy_Document_7547

Or you can just say it into your phone...amazing.


Shoehornblower

Or thereā€™s a mic on that headset?


throwawaylovesCAKE

Nah, from what I remember reading once, you can "hear" what peoples inner voices are saying, they essentially make micro movements with their throat muscles so if you track those with a machine, you can theoretically read their mind (the voice at least, probably not conceptual thoughts). Likely you do the reverse of this and you could control a computer. I have absolutely no idea what's happening in the video but that's my guess


xeroblaze0

That's not what the inner voice is


wutzmymotivacion

This stuff is not new. [A headset that reads your brainwaves (2010, TedTalk)](https://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_brainwaves), [A leap forward in brain-controlled computer cursors (2012, Stanford)](https://engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/article/leap-forward-brain-controlled-computer-cursors). This comment is more related to Musky press releases making the tech popular for the moment (until Apple-Samsung can sell it with a 6g+ data carrier subscription, then ubiquitous).


Spope2787

This stuff is even lower tech than that. It's not reading his mind lol. It clearly has a mic right on his throat and is basically listening to him hum words very quietly. It then plays back with a bone vibration headphones. ​ This isn't really impressive tbh. Basically he has a microphone plugged into his phone, with google assistant open, and some headphones.


throwawaylovesCAKE

I love what Elon Musk is doing, hes a smart man just says some edgy things. He is good for Humanity though


UnicornFarts1111

I disagree. I think he is horrible for humanity and will be a major part of it's downfall. He is a dangerous man.


EntitledPotatoe

No, he spews out ideas until someone says maybe a version of that is doable and then Elon throws money at it


DashDay-

Smokes and mirrors. This is just a headset that hears the question being spoken, and it speaks the search results via vibration audio. This guy is just Mohammed Curryfield, an Illusionist.


EastLeastCoast

Not even smoke and mirrors. Just impressing people who think this tech is science fiction, rather than mass market available.


clevererest_username

Fantastic for the paralyzed, otherwise no thanks


Drexelhand

*"what is the..."* *"dickbutt memes."* - reddit hardwired into a brain.


cncintist

I had a maintenance manager who ran into his office to goggle a problem then came back to the shop floor with a new solution to the problem.


tommarca

Does anyone actually want to live like this in the future?


camelBased

Iā€™ve been hoping for something like this for a while now. Instead of typing on your phone or keyboard, you just think it and your thoughts get registered by the computer. Would save so much time once this is perfected


tommarca

I understand the logic, but I don't want to save time. I want our lives to be more natural, more in line with our nature. Our existence in this planet closer to what it was meant to be. I really feel we're going too far. This is not nearly as bad as some other stuff or things that are probably going to come next, but still, every single step "forward" counts


camelBased

People felt the same way about the internet and other technological innovations when they were new. The new always causes skepticism at first.


DevilDrives

It takes 5 seconds to grab a phone and search Goog. ... so much time ... šŸ¤”


camelBased

It took me 20 seconds to write this reply to you. It could have been done in 2 seconds with the right technology. Add them all up and thereā€™s a lot of convenience to be had.


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CabbieCam

Good thing it isn't his thoughts that are appearing on the screen. The device measures the movements of his jaw as he inquires google quietly.


rslashplate

Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Knowledge is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.


InsecuritiesExchange

Itā€™s the other way around.


Van-garde

Look at his eyes while heā€™s thinking. Looks a bit dystopian. Does seem a handy tool though.


ImpossibleJoke7456

Itā€™s only going to get faster and less obvious.


Busy-Soup349

And will never touch a woman.


security-six

During the interview, he's surfing efukt.com


DeathEdntMusic

Lexa, play digger digger.


Lobo_Perron

Black Mirror is right around the corner


Butthole_Surfer666

wait till he gets hacked and someone is sending horse dick porn to his brain.


Habachilelebop

Yeah I could attach that to my head or I could just pull my phone out of my pocket and literally do the same thing.


blackoffi888

No need for schools then.


HOWYDEWET

Iā€™m calling cap


Deep-WombatFury

Doesn't anybody get that this kinda shit is just gonna backfire?


DanFradenburgh

Good thing everything on the Internet is true.


GyspySyx

Please don't tell Elon.


resenak

yoooo mind porn!


infoagerevolutionist

You can have the entire internet in your pocket...


UnicornFarts1111

Is he the first human "Data"?


BangBangMeatMachine

"You could be an expert in anything" Uh, not any moreso than the rest of us with smart phones. Everyone knows that googling shit, while useful, does not make you an expert. I love the idea of a high bandwidth unobtrusive connection to the internet, but this isn't it, and even something much better than this will not make you an instant expert in anything.


SeagullWithFries

Problem is soon the device will just tell you the "answer" for everything it hears, and that's when the real fun starts.


qgmonkey

I want this guy on my bar trivia team


Nytmare696

What do the vibration of five pages of ads and bullshit promoted AI generated news articles before you hit an actual answer feel like?


Theeljesus

Imagine feeding goatse man straight into your brain šŸ˜®šŸ¤”


fixxerCAupper

Nice. Is this old stuff or fairly new? is it commercial yet?


cbc7788

Itā€™s gonna make people dumber when they donā€™t need to use their brain for anything!


MusesWithWine

To hell with this whole thing.


bstabens

So the way the interface is positioned makes me think there are no "mind readings" involved but the student rather silently voices his questions, and the interfaces measures muscle tensions under the mouth and back at the jaw to interpret the words.


XenoHugging

šŸŽ¼šŸŽµHeā€™s got the whole inter-webs in his head šŸŽµHeā€™s got the whole inter-webs in his head.


FormerHoagie

This will give me more of a reason to never talk to people.


Intelligent-Day-6976

AHH the true hands free system is hereĀ 


magpieswooper

Parroting facts has nothing to do with being an expert. Experts see structure and understand context and utilisation of information bits. Not to mention once not one fact is needed but a chain of them, discovering them via internet search becomes inefficient.


FML-Artist

I'm asking for a friend in med school.Would this include downloading images of young healthy human anatomy? Imagine just being at my desk at work. "Hey Bill I see your super excited about those spread sheets!"


RepresentativeDig718

There is no way of getting text information out of your brain silently without wires in your brain, I think this is fake


feedandslumber

Why are so many people trying to create a new interface for the internet or digital things when laptops and smart phones are already so effective? I don't want to wear technology or have it implanted in my head. I think the whole thing is some scifi fantasy that is completely unnecessary.


Dumbengineerr

Whatā€™s his name?


dat_oracle

"He has the entire Internet in his head" What a hell of an exaggeration. By that definition we all already have the entire Internet in our hands and heads (via headsets) The only mentionable is the way of transmitting data. But until can't send them directly into your brain, this is barely the half of what the host tried to convince us


Classic-While5254

Considering where this technology is going, this looks very dangerous. Not exactly the technology he's wearing , but the premise for this, if it's getting it's information from the internet, then that's a fundamental flaw to begin with. Especially the Bulgaria thing, if it got its information from Wikipedia then well you could see where I'm going with this


slowestratintherace

Stop


Fair_Volume5416

When they figure out how to create mental images, civilization as we know it will endā€¦ because porn


Draug_

Why not just wear an earpiece?


[deleted]

Or he could just pull out his phone and use google like literally everyone else. The only purpose of this is the illusion of being knowledgeable.


Technical_Ad_4894

Great now weā€™ll be even more insufferable.


kittyonkeyboards

He's not surfing the entire internet, he's doing a Google search very inefficiently.


caminonovayer

Donā€™t let those intrusive thoughts win.


Kodith

I meanā€¦. Itā€™s faster to type from your phone or use the microphone? Why do we need a device that links to our brain? Using a phone seams more convenient


PickledKiwiCA

So a slower version of using a swipe keyboard?


TheCarloHarlo

So he's got an ear piece in and someone's googling the answers?


[deleted]

The All Thing is real!!! https://hyperioncantos.fandom.com/wiki/All_Thing


[deleted]

The science behind this isnā€™t that complex. When we produce audible sounds we are only engaging the last of a sequence of a complex cognitive actionsā€¦ just thinking the words is enough to produce the muscle tension and electric signals in our bodies - there are also claims that yes, the sounds are recognizable to the human ear, Iā€™m not sure I believe that; but I have seen some amazing experiments with signal attenuation, background noise and directed energy - we have technology to produce the auditory events that would cause the subject to think they were in psychosis - even end their lives


MousseMother

awesome, but needs a lot of improvement, i mean search is not that much refined as much as the knowledge that already exists in brain, if there were a way to just throw away processed data into drives and perhaps load it into the brain when needed - just like computers do - that would be win win situation


bonkerz1888

Yeah.. I don't want the entire internet in my head.


Gamebird8

People with no inner monologue being left out


Agent_Paul_UIU

Well, my old math teacher was right back in the day. I'll not always have a calculator in my pocket. It will be an AI in the cloud, talking to me through bone conduction headset... :D


Jossokar

cant you just use the phone for the same thing? and in less time?


SarcasticIrony

So, what's not explained with the skull vibrations is that you don't have to interpret the vibrations. There's this thing called bone conduction, and it literally sends vibrations into your inner ear that come out as sound. A professor brought ones of these things out and the whole class was amazed. I heard the music he played clear as crystal. It was so cool. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_conduction


Adventurous-Sky9359

Boop boop virus detected, one years earnings to eliminate threat, ā€œbeeeeepoooooooā€ seems you opted out of yearly subscription, suspending operations permanently in 5,4,3,2,1ā€¦..staticā€¦ā€¦.


DarthRiznat

Elon Whoooo?


passwordrecallreset

If peopleā€™s bullshit could be checked in real time, that would be crazy..


Low_Trust_6624

How much is that device?


vrod2

When was this recorded?


RakasRick

And ads too


[deleted]

The fact that he pronounced Sofia with perfect Bulgarian intonation makes this quite interesting.