Creepiest Innovations
Some things straight of a Black Mirror episode.
Oculus founder claims to make a VR headset that will actually kill you if you die in a game
Describing the headset in his blog, Luckey details how he says he made a Sword Art Online-style “you die in the game, you die in real life” headset. In that series, players are trapped in a giant, immersive VR combat sim where if they die in the game, it will kill them for real given that they are laced into “NerveGear” tech, and they must figure out a way to win or escape. Luckey’s version of this concept is a VR headset that is laced with charges that will explode “destroying the brain of the user” if they trigger an “appropriate game over” screen.
"The good news is that we are halfway to making a true NerveGear," he said. "The bad news is that so far, I have only figured out the half that kills you. The perfect-VR half of the equation is still many years out."
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AI translates thoughts and dreams into text/images
The learning process was intensive: three volunteers were required to lie in a scanner for 16 hours each, listening to podcasts. The decoder was trained to match brain activity to meaning using a large language model, GPT-1, a precursor to ChatGPT.
Later, the same participants were scanned listening to a new story or imagining telling a story and the decoder was used to generate text from brain activity alone. About half the time, the text closely – and sometimes precisely – matched the intended meanings of the original words.