This AI computer can read your mind

Mind-reading technology may be closer to reality than you might think. An international team of scientists, including researchers from the D'Or Institute for Research and Education in Rio de Janeiro, have used a Magnetic Resonance (MR) machine to read people's minds and identify what song they were listening to. Six participants listened to 40 different pieces of music ranging from classical to rock, pop, jazz and other types while being monitored by the MR machine, which was linked to a computer. The computer was fitted with special software which learned to identify the'neural fingerprint' of each song, or the specific brain patterns associated with it. It did this by searching for musical features such as rhythm, tonality, dynamics and timbre.