MIT Media Lab will let the internet control a human’s actions for one Halloween evening
The MIT Lab has an excitingly creepy way for you to celebrate Halloween, if parties or candy aren’t your speed. Next week, you’ll be able to work with other internet users to control one person’s actions for an evening, as spotted by Business Insider.
Researchers at the lab made a program that lets a group of users control a human being while hearing and seeing everything the person does as if they were inside the person’s mind. The human is an actor hired by MIT Media Lab. The project is called BeeMe, and it’s billed as a web-based social experiment.
Starting on Halloween at 11PM ET, people can log onto the BeeMe website and start suggesting and then voting on what action the actor should take next, like opening a door or entering a...