[HN Gopher] AI focused on brain regions recreates what you're lo...
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       AI focused on brain regions recreates what you're looking at (2024)
        
       Author : openquery
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2025-05-06 20:52 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.newscientist.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.newscientist.com)
        
       | neonate wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/650Az
        
       | averageRoyalty wrote:
       | Maybe I missed this, but isn't the underlying concept here big
       | news?
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       | Am I understanding this right? It seems that by reading areas of
       | the brain, a machine can effectively act as a rendering engine
       | with knowledge on colour, brightness etc per pixel based on an
       | image the person is seeing? And AI is being used to help because
       | this method is lossy?
       | 
       | This seems huge, is there other terminology around this I can
       | kagi to understand more?
        
         | walterbell wrote:
         | This requires intrusive electrodes, "fMRI visual recognition",
         | https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=fmri+visual+recognition
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         | There are startups working on less intrusive (e.g. headset)
         | brain-computer interfaces (BCI).
        
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