Dusseldorf A few months ago, Yu Takagi caught his breath. The images on his screen looked very convincing. The Japanese researcher went to the bathroom, looked in the mirror and thought, “Well, the reflection looks normal. Maybe I won’t go crazy after all.”
Reason for the freak out: The AI model translated the test subjects’ brain signals into images – and they were strikingly similar to the images shown previously. “I really wasn’t expecting it,” says the neuroscientist and would-be professor at Osaka University.
The scientific field is called “decoding neurons”. Artificial intelligence (AI) can use people’s brain activities to reconstruct not only images previously seen, but also music or speech heard. “Progress is exponential,” says Sead Ahmetovic, president of We Are Developers, Europe’s largest developer platform.
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