AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region

drivebyhooting

Reminds me of the parrot https://www.sfsfss.com/stories2/BLIT.htm

ben_w

As others on Telegram have said: automated search for visual superstimuli likely leads to bad outcomes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story) Also: one of the V3A animations reminds me loosely of things I saw when I was a kid, at night, shortly before I slept (though my experience then was more circular).

karel-3d

I can't wait until I see AI-generated gambling ads that are specifically created to stimulate my brain the most

Traubenfuchs

My brain never liked vertical video, shortform content and AI slop. Is my brain different or am I just a grumpy millenial hipster?

fragmede

That's fascinating. I wish the demo videos were longer.

whearyou

Straight out of Echopraxia. Will be interesting to see how strong the controlling forces can be - enough to make you miss things in direct perception like in the book, or only softer effects further up the cognition layer stack

voidmain

We are really getting to the point where the tech industry must be stopped if humanity is to continue at all, let alone thrive.

numpad0

Wait, this is with a digital twin only? Not fMRI or webcam based?

FeepingCreature

"Prime Intellect, I would like you to begin stimulating the neurons of the pleasure center of my brain, one at a time, and remember the ones I report to you as being favorable."

calebgcc

I wonder what Meta could do with a similar technology… But here we can start also the usual discussion about technology research for the sake of it vs calibration of possible side effects of new research Personally i think we haven’t solve this problem and thus it’s just a matter of time until we’ll get in a non-going-back point

stainablesteel

these videos were disappointing and underwhelming

nullbio

This is already happening at scale by the social media feed algorithms. We don't need generated content to accomplish this. In a sea of user created content, plenty of it is already at peak activation.

amanharshx

WOW! Cant wait to tell to future generations that we had voluntarily made these algorithms to manipulate and influence our own brains

StefanBatory

How can one work on that and not consider that they're pure evil?

aacid

What are these videos supposed to do? I watched few of them and it does nothing for me? if it is targetting visual regions of brain and I have aphantasia (I cannot visualize anything in my mind) is that connected?

throwaw12

Apart from ethically bad and evil use cases of this application, can we use it to massage the parts of brain like we do it to our bones and muscles with the help of physiotherapists? reason I am asking it could be some relief to our brains after tedious working day, especially after heavy AI usage

55555

What in the zuck is this?

Orochikaku

I wonder if the end-game of this field of research will be to run these simulations at scale using neuron-on-a-chip services such as [0] Cortical Cloud. I don't think it's a matter of if but when. Grim. [0] https://corticallabs.com/cloud

Gecko4072

Very interesting. We have an organic experiment converging to maximum stimulation in short form videos (which will become the majority of training data for future video gen models) Already approaching the capabilities of a “mood organ” from blade runner. Except usually most people don’t even make the choice to change their mood anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_...

Unearned5161

This is very similar to last week with that mind reading startup thing. Please read the paper before commenting. This is a tool to help researchers in figuring out what different parts of the brain are actually for with less experimenter bias contamination of “well we think maybe it’s about this so let’s show it video of x to see”. The essence runs on having someone sit in a scanner for a couple hours watching all sorts of things, and then feeding that to a model that will then build its own representation of said data and try different things on it until it’s found what makes a certain part sing in the model. The purpose is a generalized understanding of brain function, more or less the same way we’ve been doing it all these years. Expose brain to something, record it somehow, see if brains reaction in the recording helps you understand more about who we are and what cognition is.