Scientists have developed artificial intelligence that can determine what a person is looking at and how they control their brain activity. The study is another step towards direct "telepathic" communication between the brain and the computer, which can lead to transcribing videos, imaginary pictures, or even dreams.
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences argue that sophisticated software can decipher the activity of the brain and assign meaning to it. In the new work, Chinese researchers have focused on the visual cortex. As a person reads, their visual cortex lights up in all kinds of intricate three-dimensional patterns. Either way, this pattern matches the words on the screen. Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm based on deep learning - methods of teaching a computer to recognize patterns in data.
The research focused on recognizing handwritten letters and numbers. The computer used data from hundreds of people looking at one handwritten number or letter. Artificial intelligence is 90% able to recognize things, just like human brain activity. Next, scientists want a telepathic computer to be able to remember and interpret human dreams.
Svetlana Slavyanskaya