AI can now scan your brain and tell what you’re thinking | Science | News
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken a giant leap forward with the development of ‘mind captioning’, a form of digital telepathy that can read your thoughts. Scientists have developed this groundbreaking technology that uses MRI scans to decipher what individuals are thinking.
Computers are programmed to decode these scans and provide feedback in surprisingly precise sentences about what you observed and even remembered.
This innovative method can help individuals struggling with language difficulties, such as stroke survivors, communicate more effectively. But there are concerns that AI has a growing capacity to reveal personal thoughts, emotions and health conditions, which could be used for surveillance, manipulation or other malicious purposes.
The discovery, reported by Scientific American and based on a new article in the journal Science Advances, used non-invasive MRI scans to understand how the brain interprets meaning while volunteers watch short clips. A sophisticated two-stage AI then translated these patterns into language, describing the scene in extraordinary detail.
Alex Huth, a computational neuroscientist at the University of California at Berkeley, said the computer predicts “with a lot of detail” what a person is looking at. He added: “It’s hard to do. It’s amazing how much detail you can get.” According to the Daily Star.
This represents a major advance over previous attempts that could only produce individual keywords rather than complete and contextually accurate descriptions.
Currently, the AI needs your voluntary participation, extensive personalized training information, and a massive MRI scanning device to make it work; There is no indication yet that it can interpret your spontaneous inner thoughts.
However, the moral implications are real; As technology advances, concerns about mental privacy, consent, and potential abuse will inevitably intensify.
