>but, rather, on aggregating preconscious brain signals to determine what someone believes to be true. The screening process envisioned could involve presenting various statement stimuli of behavioral health relevance, such as biographical information, actions, or intentions (e.g., I want to end my life/enjoy my life) to measure preconscious responses. NEAT would triangulate responses to aggregate evidence and determine if the person reading the stimuli statements believes they are true, false, or indeterminate.
Wanna bet that it will very quickly be used for detecting other things the governments deems "unwell". Resulting in another kind of "help". The Simpsons clip sprang to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO0-mofj9EY&t=3s
It is yet another targeting algorithm that has suicide prevent as one very easily replaceable scenario.
I think the idea is to identify soldiers and other personnel who are at risk of becoming suicidal during a military operation. This seems like a good idea to me, given the extent that the safety of soldiers depends on the mental acuity of their colleagues.
Its a terrorism divining rod. That needs zero change to be used for detecting simple opposition as well.
I can't find anything that says drone projects were originally pitched for aid delivery.
> Announced this month, the US research agency said Project Icarus will create a fleet of tiny, single-use drones which will deliver emergency supplies -- such as food and medicine -- to remote areas during epidemics or disasters.
> However, once their mission is over, each drone will "vanish" after landing thanks to the use of special materials which can transform their state or shatter into mere particles.
I however remembered it more in the context of this one https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-06-28
>Under the FLA program, the only human input required is the target or objective for the UAV to search for—which could be in the form of a digital photograph uploaded to the onboard computer before flight—as well as the estimated direction and distance to the target.
Neither autonomous targeting of specific individuals nor the capability to "vanish" are something that has much application in disaster relief. Its the evolution of slaughterbots.
Sometimes technology isn't immediately useful in the exact way we think it will be.
Sent from my DARPA nuclear-war tolerant communication terminal.
>”In Africa, doctors are also placing orders remotely, but for a rather different kind of sustenance: blood.”
> “The plasma is delivered by drones to far-flung communities in Rwanda and Ghana within minutes of the order being placed by text message, often in a context of life-and-death like childbirth gone wrong. They are the world’s first national-scale solution for the healthcare and emergency needs of people living in places not served or hard to reach by land transport. What started with blood supplies and vaccines now also includes medicine, contraceptives and personal protective equipment (PPE).”
ZipLine have been doing this since 2016, and are now doing it in the USA too.
>Under the FLA program, the only human input required is the target or objective for the UAV to search for—which could be in the form of a digital photograph uploaded to the onboard computer before flight—as well as the estimated direction and distance to the target.