The Australian military is in the beginning stages of testing a potential weapon that could transform the battlefields of tomorrow.
Capitalizing on recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, Aussie soldiers are testing commands on robot dogs using only brain signals.
The New York Post has more on the development, ripped straight from the pages of a science fiction novel:
Called a brain robotic interface, the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence — through a high-tech biosensor headset — analyzes brainwave readings and feeds them from a person's visual cortex into the advanced “robodog,” Newsflash reported.
“The whole process is not difficult to master. It's very intuitive. It only took a couple of sessions,” said 5th Combat Service Support Battalion Sergeant Damian Robinson, who test-drove the HoloLens headset.
Robinson and fellow soldiers did course training with the mind-reading headsets and robodogs, in which they were able to successfully navigate harsh terrain and bad weather on a makeshift battlefield.
The key to keeping the dog on track involves flickering waypoints that appear as a part of the augmented reality the HoloLens headset wearer sees. A biosensor at the back of the headset detects brainwaves from the soldier's visual cortex.
The sensor detects the changes in brain activity that come with focusing on flickering waypoints. An artificial intelligence decoder translates those signals into commands, directing the machine to its intended destination.
Professor Chin-Teng Lin says that the decoder is capable of translating brain signals into nine different kinds of commands.
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Yebbut whose brain: man’s or Satan’s?
We should make billions of those to take over Russia and Communist Red China.
This is another nightmare scenario that needs to be shut down.
Like idea BUT scary for abuse