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Technology

Mind-reading AI recreates what you're looking at with amazing
accuracy

Giving AI systems the ability to focus on particular brain regions
can make them much better at reconstructing images of what a monkey
is looking at from brain recordings

By Michael Le Page

4 July 2024

      

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Top row: original images. Second row: images reconstructed by AI
based on brain recordings from a macaque. Bottom row: images
reconstructed by the AI system without an attention mechanism

Thirza Dado et al.

Artificial intelligence systems can now create remarkably accurate
reconstructions of what someone is looking at based on recordings of
their brain activity. These reconstructed images are greatly improved
when the AI learns which parts of the brain to pay attention to.

"As far as I know, these are the closest, most accurate
reconstructions," says Umut Guclu at Radboud University in the
Netherlands.

 

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