Mind-reading AI uses brain scans to guess what you're looking at

Can you guess what I'm looking at? A new system developed in Japan can describe a picture someone is viewing, using brain scans alone. Algorithms have recently become pretty good at generating image captions, however they normally get to see the images they are captioning. Now it seems the same techniques can be used to generate captions via scans of a person's brain. "I consider it a form of mind reading, or perhaps at this point …