AI system reconstructs words from brain data

Researchers demonstrate an AI system that can reconstruct semantic content in the form of text from fMRI data. A brain-computer interface that reconstructs language would have numerous applications in science, medicine, and industry. Invasive methods using recordings from surgically implanted electrodes show that it is possible to reconstruct language for simple brain control. But these interventions remain dangerous, even though companies like Elon Musk's Neuralink are working on methods to make such interventions as harmless as possible and without consequential damage. Non-invasive language decoders, however, could become commonplace and help people in the future to control technical devices by thought, for example.