This is mind-blowing stuff - in every sense of the word. Artificial intelligence gets thrown around as a phrase a bit carelessly as far as I'm concerned. But this is genuinely astonishing.
A computer that can read your mind? The implications for creatives are enormous, but the privacy downsides could be devastating. Have a read.
Japanese scientists have created AI capable of reading a person’s brainwaves and displaying an image based on what they’re looking at. If a person is staring at a picture of the letter “A” the AI will successfully create an image that resembles a fuzzy version of that. It’s actually reading the person’s mind – sort of.