What are YOU looking at? Mind-reading AI knows

Japanese scientists know what you're looking at -- but don't worry, there's no need to close your other browser tabs yet. Using an artificial intelligence (AI) system alongside fMRI scans, researchers were able to create an apparently mind-reading AI -- "or perhaps at this point just mind skimming," said Umut Güçlü, a researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands who was not involved in the research, to New Scientist. The system is actually similar to AI technologies that have been used successfully to caption images. To do this for someone's brain, the AI first needs an image of their brain taken with a fMRI scanner while the person is looking at an image. These scans show activity in the brain through blood flow.