Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times,
A cutting-edge new artificial intelligence (AI) tool can reconstruct images from a person's vision simply by analyzing brain scans.
There's our little test subject!The technology recreates a person's visual field with startling accuracy and can also predict brain activity by analyzing what a person is looking at in real time.
Professor Michal Irani of the Weizmann Institute of Science developed the "mind-reading" AI model Brain-IT, which interprets functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of participants' brain activity as they view a series of images.
Irani and her team - which includes Roman Beliy, Amit Zalcher, Jonathan Kogman, and Navve Wasserman from Weizmann's Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department - released their research on Sept. 14.
While the current study used fixed images, Irani's lab plans to test these so-called mind-reading methods on participants' hearing and, eventually, on video.
"What remains especially challenging is decoding video - for example, during dreaming," Irani said in a statement.
"Dozens of images change every second, while an fMRI scan takes about two seconds. If we overcome all these obstacles, it's possible that in the future we may even be able to read dreams."
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