Without a doubt, it seems that the possibilities and opportunities offered by an artificial intelligence system can be endless. For a few weeks we have known that there is a team of engineers within Microsoft who have been working for several months on an algorithm by which any device equipped with it may even be capable of read the mind of its owner.
As you are probably thinking, this can mean an unprecedented advance in terms of human development, on the one hand, we could practically do all kinds of searches in any medium just by thinking about it, ask something from a virtual assistant, organize any type of event. On the other, at least that is how it seems to me, if today we have enormous difficulties in guaranteeing the security of a user within the network ... I don't want to imagine what being able to have access to all your thoughts.
Microsoft will use machine learning techniques so that any device knows what you are thinking at a distance
As has been published by Microsoft itself, apparently the idea behind this project is as simple as the definition of telepathy itself. Broadly speaking, this consists of the transmission of psychic contents between individuals through the mind itself without using known physical agents for this transmission. This is precisely what they are trying to achieve in the famous American company through machine learning techniques.
Despite the fact that everything related to telepathy or directly to being able to read minds may sound more like a fictional film than anything else, apparently and according to the discoveries made, we are at that point where it seems that technology has the right sufficient capacity to be able to realize this type of possibilities. We have nothing else to pay attention to patents recently published by Microsoft where it seems that they are working on the possibility of manufacturing a series of computers that would be able to read the mind of anyone from a distance making use of a neural network capable of interpreting the electrical impulses generated by our brain.
Brain control opens up an impressive world of possibilities for controlling a device
Going into a little more detail, we find a group of patents where it seems that we are shown what could well be a series of interfaces endowed with sufficient capacity to achieve collect, read and process the electrical impulses generated by our brain when thinking. Once the electrical impulses have been processed and translated into machine language, any computer could execute a specific order such as putting the player with that song that we like, raising or lowering the volume, changing songs, watching a movie ... and all this without we have to interact at any time with the device.
Personally, and following the line of patents acquired by Microsoft, I have to tell you that what has been called a translation from English has caught my attention. 'Modification of the modality of a computing device based on the user's brain activity'. This patent suggests the way in which a device can switch, for example, from a manual control to a brain-controlled mode with just read the neuronal activity of the subject or user that you want it.
Far from the enormous amount of possibilities that this type of technology offers and from looking for the darker side of it, the truth is that could be a revolution, especially regarding the necessary and fundamental hardware that we need today to interact with our own computer, such as devices such as a mouse, keyboard and even the new voice control technologies that today can leave many users perplexed. that, despite having them, they still don't know how to use them, all of them they would become obsolete as soon as the brain control of a device was real.