Japanese scientists create world's 1st mental images with AI tech

Just wait until this tech is developed and the police can question you with your brain connected to a machine. No lawyer. No rights. No prayer!

Does this mean I can finally know what my sweet doggies are dreaming about when they make their abrupt little barking noises and all their muscles are twitching during a deep sleep? That would be fun !

We are doomed.

that’s fake science. They have a brain map link to a picture. They show the picture. That’s not really what you think.

@M

Spot on! That is exactly what is happening. You hit the proverbial nail on the head.

There is no such thing as "fake science." There is "bad science", "inconclusive science", and even "incomplete science", but no "fake science." There is "fake news". There is "fake reporting." There is "fake support". But no fake science.

Fake science? Well, Paper Mill Science comes really close. That's where businesses sell bogus papers and authorships to researchers who need journal publications on their CVs and resumes. How big of a problem? An article last month pegs it at hundreds of thousands of bogus paper mill articles lurking in the wildlands of science.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03464-x

Another type of science to be on the lookout for is Fabrication Science. One that comes to my mind was published back in 2021, having to do with perceptions arising from donor pressure in political science and economics. It was retracted after it was found out that data in the article had (allegedly) been identified as fabricated, plus the authors did not disclose their true identities. Easy call this time, but more cases of fabrication and falsification require some sleuthing by the scientific community.

Actually, this is a bit scary.

as imagined by Wim Wenders in his 1991 film Until the End of the World.... in which Max von Sydow is a scientist developing tech that can record visual experiences and visualize dreams....

Gene Hennigh

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There is no such thing as "fake science."

Of course there is.

If you fake the results that is fake science

Another type of science to be on the lookout for is Fabrication Science. One that comes to my mind was published back in 2021, having to do with perceptions arising from donor pressure in political science and economics. It was retracted after it was found out that data in the article had (allegedly) been identified as fabricated, plus the authors did not disclose their true identities. Easy call this time, but more cases of fabrication and falsification require some sleuthing by the scientific community.

Noting new here. In the 1970s we called that "dry labbing", creating data to fit the desired result when your, um, lab technique (think mixing chemicals in a chemistry lab or some of the crazy labs we had in first year physics back when using a computer meant a refrigerated building with big reels of magnetic tapes and punch card readers). It wasn't legit then and isn't legit now, but it certainly not anything new. The internet just makes it easier to read about all the occurrence of it.