From Futurism · Frank Landymore · · 1m 10s
AI Predicts Thoughts From Brain Scans
New AI tool decodes brain scans to reveal what you're thinking about.
In brief
New AI tool decodes brain scans to reveal what you're thinking about. Researchers created AI that predicts what someone is imagining from brain scans, raising concerns about brain privacy. Originally reported by Futurism.
New AI Decodes Brain Scans
Researchers developed an AI tool that predicts what you're looking at from brain scans and generates accurate images of your thoughts.
“Better learn about "brain privacy," because it may soon go the way of the dodo.”
Neuroscientist Warns of Privacy Risks
Tommy Sprague, a neuroscientist at uc santa barbara, said the tool could enable surreptitious extraction of thoughts, making sci-fi scenarios real.
“the results seem very impressive”
Higher Fidelity Image Reconstruction
Michal irani's team created a more detailed image reconstruction than previous brain scan methods using newer high-resolution scans.
“their work is able to create a higher fidelity representation of what's being pictured”
AI Model Training Process
The researchers trained an ai model on brain scans from eight subjects viewing thousands of images to predict image structure and content.
“the researchers trained an ai model on a public data set of brain scans that were taken from eight subjects while they were shown thousands of images”
Synthetic Brain Scans for Refinement
The team used an encoder model to generate synthetic brain scans from images, improving the ai's accuracy without needing real scans.
“to work around this, the researchers trained an ai model that worked in reverse”
Potential for Brain Privacy Loss
Marcello ienca warned that wearable brain devices could allow companies to access thoughts without consent, threatening brain privacy.
“i have no doubt that this is, you know, well-intentioned research, but i think it's also pretty obvious that it could be co-opted for... ethically and societally problematic commercial uses”
The big picture
Researchers created AI that predicts what someone is imagining from brain scans, raising concerns about brain privacy.
