Naked Science Forum
On the Lighter Side => That CAN'T be true! => Topic started by: Bill S on 07/04/2018 18:13:39
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https://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2018/04/computer-system-transcribes-words-users-speak-silently?
Computer System Transcribes Words Users 'Speak Silently
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I'm not surprised that this is possible. I think I tend to move my mouth more than normal when I think of words myself (enough for others to notice).
You may have given tkadm30 more paranoia fuel, though...
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This is an old idea I recall reading about it in the fourties, If it is to used by interrogators as a substitute for torture there is a low tech solution simply blowing air into the subjects mouth but you cannot do anything today without incorporating a computer
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You may have given tkadm30 more paranoia fuel, though...
Artificial intelligence is much more than paranoia fuel, bro! :)
tk
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I think I tend to move my mouth more than normal when I think of words myself (enough for others to notice).
Apparently St Augustine is the first person recorded as reading without moving his mouth. His fellow monks were amazed.
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I read several times faster than I can speak. I think most, or certainly many, people do. So one suspects this would confuse, or completely submerge the system. The reference to speed reading seems to support this.
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The idea is old, but good. All the old is the foundation of a new.