Have you ever wondered what it would be like to type hands-free? Well, Mark Zuckerberg is already thinking for you. Literally. Mind reading is now!
At a time when Elon Musk with your own Neuralincoma entertaining the masses by testing brain chips, Meta (formerly known as Facebook) is quietly developing technology that is at least as crazy - if not more. We're talking about the ability to communicate with just your mind. Mind reading is here! No keyboard, no screen, no physical effort. Just you, your brain waves and... Meta, watching it all.
Yes, you read that right. Meta claims to have developed artificial intelligence that can read brain signals and convert them into text with 80 percent accuracy. This means that in the near future, you could simply think a message and your device would write it down. Sounds like science fiction? In fact, it's more of a science reality - the question is, are we ready for it?
How does mind-reading technology work?
In theory, it's not that complicated. Our brains constantly emit electrical signals that create weak magnetic fields. Meta has developed devices that detect these fields and translate them into understandable language using artificial intelligence.
Imagine you want to write an SMS: “See you at eight.” Instead of picking up your phone and typing, you would just think of a sentence – and boom! Meta would write it down for you.
Of course, it's not perfect. The AI model can miss a letter or change a word (so if you think “See you at eight,” you can get something in style “See you at the donkeys.”), but hey, even autocorrect can be pretty confusing.
Wow, great! But wait… Meta reads minds?
Here we come to the key question: Do we really want Zuckerberg and team to read our minds?
Meta has a long history of privacy issues, to say the least. From the Cambridge Analytica scandal to sharing data with third parties, the company has never been a model of ethical data use. And now we're supposed to trust them with access to our deepest thoughts?
Imagine Meta detecting you silently thinking while watching ads “Ah, I really need new shoes.” The next moment, Facebook shows you ads for the exact shoes you may have even subconsciously wanted. If you thought it was scary that your phone was “listening” to you, let alone reading you.
Where do we draw the line?
Meta claims that their brain experiments are primarily aimed at people who have communication difficulties – such as those with paralysis. And if that’s true, the technology could be groundbreaking. But we know how it goes: something starts out as a medical project, then suddenly becomes another feature on your Facebook profile.
The question is no longer or technology will become a reality, but who will control it and how they will use it. Of course, Meta promises that everything will be safe, voluntary, and ethical – but that's what they told us even before the Cambridge Analytica affair.
So, before we excitedly anticipate a future where we type with our minds, perhaps we should ask ourselves: Is this future really ours – or does it belong to someone else?
