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Title: Armies of the Future: AI Bots or “Enhanced” Humans?
Published: 2017-05-12
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chGDx0u6fMw
Title: Armies of the Future: AI Bots or “Enhanced” Humans?
Published: 2017-05-12
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chGDx0u6fMw
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Hey again I'm Jeff to resell and welcome to another edition of mine hack today the military's using human brain waves to teach robots how to shoot Darbo wants to hack the human brain to let us upload skills and could observing your brain activity be the future of treating depression WNED we need your help to continue creating independent people funded media so free supporters on Kickstarter and2/34
become a member of the news but community the first article I want to look at today was published in defense one on may fifth twenty seventeen by Patrick Tucker the title says the military is using human brain waves to teach robots how to shoot the article begins by stating that while modern sensors can see further and react faster than humans can humans it still outperform robots3/34
in knowing what to shoot at but the author says that gap may soon be closing the author explains that because machine learning systems rely on structured data this makes it difficult for them to accurately assess targets in chaotic environments the way humans can't because our brains categorize information in the form of experiential memories this past March at the intelligent user interface conference in Cyprus researchers from4/34
DCS corporation and the army research lab presented their findings from a study that fed data sets of human brain waves into a neural network which then learn to recognize when a human is making a targeting decision this research is one branch in a long term multi faceted program called the cognition and neural ergonomics collaborative technology alliance or can CT a Thomas Russell the chief scientist for5/34
the army speaking at a recent national defense industrial association event spoke of how the project seeks to use a similar deep learning approach that Google's deep mind used to defeat the world's best go player but the army wants to use it to solve a much more complex problem Russell says you can train the system to do deep learning in a highly structured environment but if they6/34
go game board change dynamically over time D. A. I would never be able to solve that problem you have to figure out in that dynamic environment we have in the military world how do we retrain this learning process from a systems perspective right now I don't think there's any way to do that without having the human's train those systems one of the authors of the study7/34
discussed in this article Matthew Joshua says that the work builds on the knowledge of something called pea three hundred responses P. three hundred responses are bursts of electrical activity that the parietal lobe of the brain in minutes in response to stimuli which humans use to produce quick decisions the eventual goal of the technology according to Joshua is to create a neural network they can learn to8/34
shoot more accurately by observing highly trained human soldiers doing their jobs here's a great example of how American tax dollars are being spent while applying human brain data to neural networks is an idea which could have positive applications this specific application can only result in the continued killing of more human the beats I've commented on a previous episode of my tack that there seems to be9/34
a pattern where cutting edge technology is always first applied to warfare and then eventually sometimes decades later it becomes available to the public to use for more humane applications our next article for today was published in futurism on may second twenty seventeen by Carla lay it the title says DARPA is planning to hack the human brain to let us upload skills the article begins by explaining10/34
that DARPA's targeted neuroplasticity training program or TNT which was announced in March twenty sixteen is exploring ways to speed up skill acquisition by activating something called synaptic plasticity the article defines synaptic plasticity as the brain's ability to alter the connecting points between neurons which is a requirement for learning this conceptual graphic from DARPA shows how they envisioned the device could work this device would aim to11/34
create an improved method of neuro stimulation with the eventual goal of allowing humans to quote download knowledge after putting our minds in a highly receptive euro plastic state as the first step in this TNT program DARPA is funding eight projects at seven institutions which will aim to better understand how nerve stimulation influences brain plasticity then they'll adapt what they've learned by implementing different methods of neuro12/34
stimulation into the training process and then compare and contrast the efficacies of the different methods this reminded me of something that we discussed in a previous episode of mine hack a transcranial direct current stimulation headset produced by a company called halo neuroscience used to trade navy seals this was part of an effort by the defense innovation unit experimental or D. I. you axe Indy I you13/34
acts is not officially related to DARPA though the two seem to share a very similar purpose especially when considering the similarities between this story and the previous one about navy seal training so one of the areas I want to research more into is what are the differences and similarities between D. I. you ex and DARPA and how do they interact also unlike the previous story recovered14/34
today this technology is not focused on techniques of killing but instead on improving the efficiency of the human brain this technology could have many positive applications just imagine being able to learn how to speak a new language or to play a new musical composition with only the click of a button on the other hand my prediction is that certain skills will be much easier to learn15/34
through this downloading process than others specifically I would guess that skills involving muscle memory or the memorization of data would be easy to pick up using this method though I would imagine more nuanced and complex skills like critical thinking persuasion mindfulness or philosophy would be impossible to learn in this way these skills rely on are uniquely human traits and cannot be reduced to data sets which16/34
can be fed through a machine my intuition tells me that there are certain skills which can only be learned through experience but I'll still hold out hope for being able to download the ability to do come true we've covered many examples on this show of the military and the defense industry being very public about technologies that they're working on but that leaves me to wonder whether17/34
there are technologies that they are being less public about and that is the subject of today's mind hack flashback today we flash back to December twelfth two thousand two what a patent for it nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields for monitors was awarded to a mysterious inventor by the name of Hendrikus G. groups delayed the nervous subject by posting images played on a nearby puter monitor18/34
or TV the patent says the image posing maybe in in the program material or it may be overlaid by modulating a video stream unfortunately there is very little available information about to suppose that inventor Hendrikus gene lips who holds fourteen other patents for similar technology dating back to the nineteen eighties my research uncovered documents that indicate that Mr Luce who is currently ninety one years old19/34
started a company called to do your research lab in his home in Fallbrook California in the nineteen eighties the good research lab one several contracts from DARPA as well as the army and the navy other online records indicate that Hendrikus Jeanne moos who also goes by hate is the principal operator of Q. wave corporation founded in two thousand five Q. wave corporation is registered at the20/34
exact same address in Fallbrook California where Laguna research lab was located there are many online researchers to speculate that this technology is used for a covert government mind control operations and these rumors are only fueled by a lack of publicly available information about Mister Hendrick is Jean loose and his company Q. wave corporation when I tried to reach out to Q. wave corporation by phone to21/34
get to the facts behind the rumors I received a recorded message that and number had been disconnected I think I don't know patent records for Mr looses two thousand to adventure shows that he resided at thirteen nineteen crest away in the Munich beach California when I tried reaching Mr Luce had a personal phone number tied to this address I received the same recorded message that the22/34
number had been disconnected some other internet researchers have speculated that Hendrikus G. leagues is actually a pseudonym used to disguise the real patent holders that may be true but this house in the good beach is registered under the name Hendrikus gene groups and also another person named John shade whose who I assume is the wife of hate groups if there's anyone out there in the Laguna23/34
beach area knows something about this address thirty nineteen crest away or has any insight into who this person is please leave a comment on this video so we can better understand who this mysterious inventor however I would ask that anyone out there investigating further into this topic please respect the privacy of the current residents of this house here we have an example of an inventor with24/34
a traceable documented record of working with DARPA and the military who is working on a technology that is not being highly publicized in fact it's hard to track down any information on who this person is and what exactly being used for and that is today's mind have flashbacks our final article for today was published in business insider on may fourth twenty seventeen by Erin Broadway the25/34
title says a strange technique that involves observing your own brain activity could be the future of treating depression according to a recently published study by Kimberly young of the university of Pittsburgh school of medicine a technique called F. MRI neurofeedback can help people who suffer from depression young says that her experiment which involves having a person observe the activity of their own amygdala am consciously try26/34
to increase that activity by recalling positive memories has shown promising results the study was conducted on thirty six adult volunteers after two sessions sixty three percent of the neurofeedback participants reported a quote significant decrease in a standard rating scale of depression verses only twelve percent in the placebo controlled group young says the treatment is effective because the amygdala is known to play a role in depression27/34
her goal is to train the amygdala in depressed people to be more responsive to positive emotional cues Kimberly young warns that after MRI neurofeedback should not be equated with E. G. neurofeedback which uses an electrode several Graham had set similar to the emotive device we discussed in episode one of mine tack young makes the analogy that if fMRI is a Google maps for the brain then28/34
E. G. is a rough hand drawn street map so as a result she says quote we can get that deep brain structures such as the amygdala that E. G. neurofeedback simply can't get to the article then continues with a few more snarky comments from young about why her fMRI technique is way cooler than that lame E. G. neurofeedback technique she continues not many people are doing29/34
any controlled studies of E. gener of feedback so it's likely that what they're seen as just a placebo response so I'm not really sure what point young is trying to make by saying this other than trying to reinforce that her research as legitimate whereas E. G. neurofeedback is not in a way it's just her trying to one up her competition and to me the main point30/34
is this whether you use any G. Orin fMRI is the use of a high tech device really required to cure depression doesn't it stand to reason that if a so called mental disorder like depression is brought about by emotions that facing and color green these emotions would be the only proper way to cure it perhaps neurofeedback can be helpful in understanding these emotions but who is31/34
going to be able to afford the skins the F. MRI equipment itself cost between half a million and three million dollars so I am guessing that people like me wouldn't be able to afford this type of treatment wouldn't it be just as helpful and much more cost effective for someone suffering from depression to simply talk to a licensed therapist who can listen to them in an32/34
environment free from judgment can high tech gadgetry really solve all of our human emotional problems human emotions can only be understood by other humans not by electronic devices so when solving these emotional problems I digital intermediary seems kind of unnecessary that's it for this edition of mind act thanks watching and please continue supporting independent media by contributing to our Kickstarter campaign and becoming a member of33/34
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