Reverse Engineering Decisions

16:35 in A.I., News by fini

I’m not sure about the validity of the actual methods they use, but it sure sounds like something that could be used with great benefit in the A.I. industry, as well as law enforcement of course ;)

An anonymous slashdot reader writes to tell us German scientists claim to have the means of predicting decisions of high level mental activity. “In the past, experts had been able to detect decisions about making physical movements in advance. But researchers at Berlin’s Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience claim they have now, for the first time, identified people’s decisions about how they would later do a high-level mental activity — in this case, adding versus subtracting.”