This mind-reading AI can see what you're thinking - and draw a picture of it

[A51Watcher]

Now reality is catching up with fantasy. In the past year, AI experts in China, the US and Japan have published research showing that computers can replicate what people are thinking about by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (or fMRI) machines – which measure brain activity – linked to deep neural networks, which replicate human brain functions.

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Meanwhile, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in the US claim to have gone a step closer to real "mind reading" by using algorithms to decode brain signals that identify deeper thoughts such as "the young author spoke to the editor" and "the flood damaged the hospital".

The technology, the researchers say, is able to understand complex events, expressed as sentences, and semantic features, such as people, places and actions, to predict what types of thoughts are being contemplated.

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Marcel Just, who is leading the research, said: "Our method overcomes the unfortunate property of fMRI to smear together the signals emanating from brain events that occur close together in time, like the reading of two successive words in a sentence.

"This advance makes it possible for the first time to decode thoughts containing several concepts. That's what most human thoughts are composed of."


more at link -

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/mind-reading-ai-creates-images-from-your-thoughts/

[space otter]

i'll be really worried when they can do it without attaching wires to your head..

[A51Watcher]

Too late. They can already scan you from a distance.

[space otter]

how much of a distance?

[A51Watcher]

Not sure. At this point I think they are limited to the same room.

But that could change quickly.

[space otter]

probably the alum hat isn't going to be much help..sigh

maybe  a nice copper wire faraday type hat...hummmmmmmm

or i could just keep my head empty and mess with them
what do you think?