AI mind-reading tool
produces video of human thoughts in real-time
Chilling footage shows an AI created by
Russian researchers using the brainwaves of human participants to accurately
guess their thoughts in real-time through video
A mind-reading tool powered by
artificial intelligence has produced a staggering video of human thoughts in
real-time.
Russian researchers trained the
programme to guess what people are thinking based on their brain waves.
They trained the AI by using clips of
different objects, and the brainwave activity of participants watching them.
Participants were then shown clips of
nature scenes, people on jet skis and human expressions.
AI then recreated videos using a electroencephalogram (EEG) cap,
reports New Scientist.
Out of 234 attempts, 210 were
successfully categorised by the video.
Colours and large shapes were deemed the
most successful, the report adds.
But human faces were harder to recreate
with many distorted, researchers said.
The video first surfaced last month.
But since then Victor Sharmas, at the
University of Arizona, commented on the video and said we are still only
looking at the surface of human thought.
He said: "What we are currently
seeing is a caricature of human experience, but nothing remotely resembling an
accurate recreation."
However, Daily Star Online
previously revealed how mind-reading with
accuracy could be as little as 10 years away.
Dr Ian Pearson, a futurologist and ex-cybernetics engineer, told
us: "I would think in a lab we're probably a decade or 15 years away from
that (technology).
"I don't think it will be very long
after that before police are using it in interrogations, getting somebody in
for questioning.
"Instead of a police officer asking
questions, they'll stick a helmet on to decide what it is that's going through
your mind.
"That'll be a 2040 lie detector
replacement, they will try to be figuring out exactly what you're thinking
about.
"Having watched the Brexit fiasco
going on, if you have a government helmet sitting on my head, I would be in
prison by now.
"I'm sure you can probably say the
same thing about 90% of the population, how many of us haven't thought naughty
things about various people?"
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