Great write-up, thanks for providing details in an accessible way.
I had previously heard of some experiments done by the military or security sectors where they wanted to monitor a large area for human activity. They set up a bunch of security cameras and wanted to see how the best way to detect human motion on those was. A computer program to detect it had only moderate success. A human could only monitor a fraction of the cameras simultaneously. So they hooked a human into some sort of brain-reading machine (I have forgotten all the details!) and flashed the cameras images before them on a screen at a rate that was too high for the human to consciously be able to say whether or not there was anything of interest in the screen. But they were able to train a computer program to interpret the information read from the human brain in order to determine whether there was anything interesting. And this system performed better than the pure-computer system.
I can’t say I have a link to this though. Just more evidence that this isn’t unexpected.
Great write-up, thanks for providing details in an accessible way.
I had previously heard of some experiments done by the military or security sectors where they wanted to monitor a large area for human activity. They set up a bunch of security cameras and wanted to see how the best way to detect human motion on those was. A computer program to detect it had only moderate success. A human could only monitor a fraction of the cameras simultaneously. So they hooked a human into some sort of brain-reading machine (I have forgotten all the details!) and flashed the cameras images before them on a screen at a rate that was too high for the human to consciously be able to say whether or not there was anything of interest in the screen. But they were able to train a computer program to interpret the information read from the human brain in order to determine whether there was anything interesting. And this system performed better than the pure-computer system.
I can’t say I have a link to this though. Just more evidence that this isn’t unexpected.