New artificial intelligence system can read your mind!

Scientists have developed a new'mind reading' artificial intelligence system that can decode complex human thoughts just by measuring brain activity. The AI system indicates that the mind's building blocks for constructing complex thoughts are formed by the brain's various sub-systems and are not word-based. "We have finally developed a way to see thoughts of that complexity in the fMRI signal. The discovery of this correspondence between thoughts and brain activation patterns tells us what the thoughts are built of," said Marcel Just from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the US. Researchers demonstrated that the brain's coding of 240 complex events, sentences like the shouting during a trial scenario uses an alphabet of 42 meaning components, or neurally plausible semantic features.