‘Mind captioning’ is a method developed at NTT Communication Science Laboratories in Japan that uses a blend of brain images and AI to generate text descriptions of what people are seeing (or even visualizing) based only on their neural patterns. In tests, the system was able to correctly describe scenes viewed by participants about half the time, even when presented with a hundred possibilities — and even when participants were just visualizing the scenes in their mind.
The technology is still far from being a mind-reading device, but it could have serious ethical implications when it becomes more capable.
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