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Faster and sharper: A new brain-computer-interface technology could turn our brains into automatic image-identifying machines that operate faster than human consciousness. Researchers at Columbia University are combining the processing power of the human brain with computer vision to develop a novel device that will allow people to search through images ten times faster than they can on their own. Read more in Wired.
Yeah, this is very interesting and kind of scary. I’m betting cyborgian, machine/flesh chimeras are very much in the not-too-distant future. I think we’ll see real results from this before we see real machine-based artificial intelligence.