Psychology
Technology
Date: March 2018
Source: New Scientist
Artificial Intelligence in Japan is now able to guess what a person sees by analyzing brain scans.
An article in New Scientist states that “the AI is given an image of a person’s brain, taken with an fMRI scanner. The fMRI scanner shows the surges in blood flow that correspond with activity, so the different parts of the brain involved in processing the image light up on the scan. From this, the AI then produces a caption based on what it thinks the person was viewing. For example, one caption it generated was ‘A dog is sitting on the floor in front of an open door,’ which correctly described the scene.”
Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.02210.pdf
New Scientist, March, 2018