Computer Aided Telepathy
What is Computer Aided Telepathy?
Bing AI says:
“Computer aided telepathy is a term that is not commonly used. However, telepathy is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction⁶. It is a phenomenon that has been studied for many years, but there is no scientific evidence that it exists⁵.”
Telepathy: I think, you “hear” the words of my thoughts.
plus Computer Aided:
I think, with a sensing headset connected to a computer which writes my word thoughts into text (which I might see a copy of, or not). This text is sent to the receiver’s computer.
The receiving computer converts that text to speech, which is “heard” via an implant in the receiver. Or maybe just a current earbud (or “jewel”, like in Ender Wiggin’s ear)
Viola, Computer Aided Telepathy.
I was thinking of this in 2000, just before the dot.com bubble burst. Then again later, but realized that cell phones are pretty close – I talk & you hear. I was wondering if ThoughtWriter wouldn’t get here at 99% or more accuracy before VoiceWriter (voice to text). Tech is just about there for voice, not so close for thoughts, according to this 2019 note, with a similar NPR story.
Both Voice & Thought writer, for text, will be ways to talk in the car to others, as well as to computer agents.
AI bots are now here, and they’ll soon be ubiquitous in hearing humans talking, and ordering them to help out. AI assistants / servants / slaves. Soon better than the current Bing bot, or chatGPT.
Here’s a joke from Bing:
Why did the computer aided telepathy system go to therapy? It was having trouble reading its own mind!
Also, Stanford Alpaca shows an ai LLM can be duplicated quickly and cheaply.
Alpaca AI: Stanford researchers clone ChatGPT AI for just $600 (interestingengineering.com)
-How Computer-Assisted Telepathy Helps Humans Communicate. https://www.wbur.org/npr/716410633/mind-machine-meld-how-computer-assisted-telepathy-helps-humans-communicate Accessed 3/22/2023.
-Brain-computer interface will make people telepathic, scientists say .... https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/brain-computer-interface-neuralink-elon-musk-telepathy-a9097821.html Accessed 3/22/2023.
Projection: There will be a series of more sensitive training sensors to improve the computer’s ability to sense thoughts in a person. It will be done first on handicapped folk, with reasonably healthy brains but problematic bodies (2 decades late for Stephen Hawking).
Fermi’s Paradox:
Thought writing is why we see no Alien radio junk – broadcast is less efficient than narrow cast, so as civilizations advance, they move towards more efficient. (Also possible Humans are first, tho this seems less likely. )