News Technology 08 May 2017
Telepathic computer reads your mind to see what you see
Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) that can figure out what you are looking at, just by monitoring your brain activity.
The research is another step towards a direct ‘telepathic’ connection between brains and computers, and could one day lead to decoding of video, imagined pictures or even dreams.
A preprint of the work, performed by computer scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been uploaded to the arXiv server, though is not yet been peer-reviewed.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has provided a window on the brain – a way to monitor what areas of the brain are active at any given moment. Since the 1990s the technique has helped spark a revolution in brain research. To pick just one example, last year the technique revealed 97 previously uncharted regions of the brain.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/telepathic-computer-reads-your-mind-to-see-what-you-see
