Frighteningly accurate 'mind reading' AI reads brain scans to guess what you're thinking

Neural network gives us a better understanding of the inner workings of the brain. From medical applications like helping dermatologists diagnose skin cancer to teaching robots to get a better grip on the world around them, deep learning neural networks can carry out some pretty impressive tasks. Could mind reading be among them? The folks at Carnegie Mellon University certainly think so -- and they've got the research to back up their theories. What CMU scientists have been working on is a system that can apparently read complex thoughts based on brain scans, possibly even interpreting complete sentences.