'60 Minutes': Instant analysis Video
'60 Minutes': Instant analysis Video Transcript
>> We asked if his team was up for a challenge. Would they take our associate producer, Megan Frank [assumed spelling], whose brain had never been scanned before, and see if the computer could identify her thoughts. Justin Mitchell [assumed spelling] agreed to give it a try, and see if they could do it in almost real time.
>> So you've never done an instant analysis, as we might say on television?
>> Justin Mitchell: Nobody's done this. Ever.
>> Ever. [ sound of a scan ]
>> That's actually her brain.
>> That's her brain.
>> Inside the scanner, Megan was shown a series of ten items and asked to think for a few seconds about each one.
>> If it all comes out right, when she's thinking hammer, the computer will know she's thinking hammer.
>> Justin Mitchell: Right.
>> OK. We're all done.
>> So, Megan.
>> What?
>> How was it?
>> It wasn't bad.
>> Good.
>> Within minutes, the computer, unaware of what pictures Megan had been shown and working only from her brain activity patterns as read out by the scanner, was ready to tell us in it's own voice what it believed was the first object Megan had been thinking about.
>> Computer: I think word is nine. [ Bell ring ]
>> Alright. One.
>> Then the second.
>> Computer: I think the word is hammer. [ Bell ring ]
>> Alright.
>> Computer: I think the word is window. [ Bell ring ]
>> It's perfect, right?
>> So far.
>> And it continued to be, word after word.
>> Computer: Apartment. [ Bell ring ]
>> Ten out of ten.
>> Ten out of ten. Well done. Well done.
>> Justin Mitchell: Good thinking. [ watch ticking ]
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