Can AI read our minds?

Dusseldorf A few months ago, Yu Takagi caught his breath. The photos on his screen looked so compelling. The Japanese researcher went into the bathroom, looked in the mirror and thought, “Okay, the reflection looks normal. Maybe I’m not going crazy after all.”

The reason for the dismay: An AI model had translated the test subjects’ brain signals into images – and they were amazingly similar to the photos previously viewed. “I really didn’t expect that,” says the neuroscientist and prospective professor at Osaka University.

The scientific field is called “neuronal decoding”. Artificial intelligence (AI) can use the brain activities of people to reconstruct not only previously seen images, but also heard music or speech. “Progress is exponential,” says Sead Ahmetovic, head of We Are Developers, Europe’s largest developer platform.

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