Privacy intruding machines will predict your innermost thoughts

Imagine-You are lusting after your new found love and your wife catches you red-handed. You are cursing your boss and he mutters aloud the thoughts of your mind. Sounds scary, isn't it? Well, if the new invention is to go by, we may soon have machines that read our thoughts and doling out information that's supposed to be private.

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Yes, American researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have developed a machine that is capable of reading our minds. A sophisticated scanner and a computer program were used to screen the working of the brain. An advanced form of MRI Scanner showed how the brain reacted to ten drawings of tools and buildings. The computer was programmed to predict whether a person was thinking about a tool or a building and they had an astonishing 97% accuracy in the predictions.

The brain scans showed different regions involved in processing the information and different areas lit up with different thoughts. Though the thoughts were limited to just ten pictures, they hope to come up with a program which can predict words and eventually entire sentences.

The positive side of such a device is that it could be used to track the way a criminal thinks or may help predict thoughts of people with neurological disorders making it easy for the physicians who treat them. Of course, the negative side would be the intrusion of the much guarded privacy.

Source: Dailymail