'Mind-reading' artificial intelligence produces a description of what you're thinking about

Think that Google's search algorithms are good at reading your mind? That's nothing compared to a new artificial intelligence research project coming out of Japan, which can analyze a person's brain scans and provide a written description of what they have been looking at. To generate its captions, the artificial intelligence is given an fMRI brain scan image, taken while a person is looking at a picture. It then generates a written description of what they think the person was viewing. An illustration of the level of complexity it can offer is: "A dog is sitting on the floor in front of an open door" or "a group of people standing on the beach."