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Computers May Soon Read Your Mind...by Looking at Your Face

abcnews.go.com — One of these days your computer will probably know what you are thinking before you know it yourself. The human face conveys emotions ranging from fear to confusion to lying, sometimes involuntarily, and scientists are figuring out how to make use of those expressions.

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  • Inuranic, on 07/07/2008, -2/+12Finally. I look forward to the day when I can think my way to YouPorn, hands free.
    • anonymousleaf, on 07/08/2008, -0/+6Face, not penis.
      • Murdats, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1:o
      • NoDisk, on 07/09/2008, -2/+3[code]
        #YPorn

        from FaceRecognition import *

        import internet.controller

        import penis

        FaceRecognition()

        wink.youknowtheoneImean = yporn

        def pornotime()
        if eyeline = yporn
        open(ie, youporn, com)
        wait_for_user()

        pornotime()

        #End.
        [/code]

        Problem Solved.
    • daza, on 07/09/2008, -0/+12It's all fun and games until it can read your subconscious and takes you to "Shemales/Transgender" instead of "Straight"...
      • Murdats, on 07/09/2008, -1/+1well if you prefer shemales/transgender then what's your problem?
        unless you prefer watching porn in public, in which case that's your problem.
    • calon9, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1The software will implode when it tries to read the expression of a first timer watching 2girls1cup...
  • lucy22, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Great news.
    • linagee, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1This is briliant! It can have a virtual arm that slaps the student when they fall asleep.
  • Rudzz34, on 07/08/2008, -0/+5Don't look at the telescreens
  • btschul, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3***** that. Easily abused. They'll probably turn it into a mandatorily installed media piracy detector or something.
    • Murdats, on 07/09/2008, -2/+1well seeing as most people have no moral problem with piracy it wont be able to tell the difference between you wiki-ing banana or pirating, but if its a mandatory install why not just install a tracking program to detect if you are pirating?
  • reester, on 07/08/2008, -1/+0Seriously, what is the application for this? Is your computer going to try and cheer you up when you come home sad because your girlfriend (or boyfriend) left you? I don't need a computer to tell me I'm happy or sad. Sure, this may be something worth analyzing and putting some effort into, but outside of using it to detect lies (which I'm sure most people could fake their way past it), I don't see any real use for this crap.
    • mark076h, on 07/08/2008, -0/+5the application is called Big Brother
    • linagee, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1If you're sad it will display porn. If you're happy it will display the news.
      • CharlesMay, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Which in turn would cause an endless loop. Since news will most likely make you sad, it will immediately switch back to porn which... well, I don't think I need to explain it to you guys/gals.
  • DopeWeasel, on 07/09/2008, -1/+1... so why would people want a robotic teacher anyway? Wouldn't everyone rather stay at home in their underoos and take online classes?
  • Vich, on 07/09/2008, -0/+6Skynet will use the accumulated data in order to create machines that replicate human emotion better and thus increase their chance of infiltration into our bases.
  • tunafizzle, on 07/09/2008, -1/+2***** that *****. I'm not ready for ghost in the shell *****. I'm pretty damn liberal (does that matter here? anyone liberal/conservatives wanna chime in?), but this could develop into a nightmare if studied too much
    • aaabatteries, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Everyone here is liberal, unfortunately. Digg isn't much of a melting pot...
  • phoebe8, on 07/09/2008, -0/+0I think people are scared by these developments because they imagine the sci-fi version, 100 steps ahead, instead of the more basic (maybe less interesting) technology development that could actually be really useful.
  • zadadka, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3My wife does that already.......
  • s4g4n, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3So basically I go around making the face I want them to think I'm thinking. I don't see how this is more in depth than reading poker faces.
  • anagoge, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Wow, that hard drive is gonna fill up pretty damn quickly with porn.
  • PolarBearFire, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Digg - Computers are Already Reading Your Mind...By Registering Your Keystrokes and Mouse Inputs. ~OoH~
  • bennet002, on 07/09/2008, -0/+0Look what technology these days can do.
  • Bloodboiler, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Future error message:
    Installation failed, because you lied you accept the End User License Agreement (EULA).
    Try again and honestly read EULA carefully and really accept everything in it.
  • Hangly, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2My face is inscrutable. Like an egg.
  • mildgreenfairy, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Aren't there 6 billion neural nets already living on the planet, doing this with a moderately good degree of accuracy already?
  • Jeremyz0r, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1*he looks to be contemplating evil crimes..*
    Google Results: 1 - 10 of about 536,000 for "sheep sex." (0.04 seconds)
  • mrloci, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1"MAY"
    you can write any old crap as long as you add "MAY".
    here's one i MAY submit to digg:

    "computers MAY in the future be able to sniff your aura and report its findings to the astral police"
  • RationalXubrnce, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2 As if life isn't complicated enough soon you'll be hiding your emotions from your computer.
  • remccain, on 07/09/2008, -0/+9It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime ... ~George Orwell, 1984
  • known, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Identifying Good, Bad and Ugly emotions in face is good enough.
  • omega6, on 07/09/2008, -0/+0Winston Churchill once said, "The eyes are the window to your face!"
    -Christopher Walken
  • phalanxcronos, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1The MPAA and RIAA would love that technology.

    What are you doing Dave? /types in thepiratebay.org/ that is illegal Dave, I cannot let you do that
  • PDF84, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Thats why I always carry an electromagnet in my pocket.
  • blanketfury, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1The future is not looking so good for PedoBear.
  • Wichy, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1... but why these journalist never include the reference to the original article?
  • grantmoore3d, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1OMG!! So computer games may finally understand when I swear at them.... I'm so happy!! :)
  • Nicoon, on 07/09/2008, -0/+0Or rather reading your face, period.
  • Electricpigdigg, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1It's pretty interesting to see that a lot of inventions, planned and present mimic what we've seen in past movies - motion sensing control methods, and new things like microsoft Surface, now this.
  • caponumen, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Not if I kick it's face in first.........
  • MaDai, on 07/10/2008, -0/+0"The machine got it right nearly half the time" means that it made worst than random - the experiment failed.
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