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AI is getting better at mind reading

By Oliver Whang

01 May 2023 · 3 min read

Neuroscientists have developed an artificial intelligence that can translate the private thoughts of human subjects by analyzing fMRI scans. The NYT reports on the latest language-decoding methods.

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Think of the words whirling around in your head: that tasteless joke you wisely kept to yourself at dinner; your unvoiced impression of your best friend’s new partner. Now imagine that someone could listen in.

On Monday, scientists from the University of Texas, Austin, made another step in that direction. In a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the researchers described an artificial intelligence that could translate the private thoughts of human subjects by analyzing fMRI scans, which measure the flow of blood to different regions in the brain.

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