This AI can see what you're thinking - and draw a picture of it

However, in one recent piece of research, from Japan's ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories and Kyoto University, scientists said that not only was a program able to decipher images it had been trained to recognize when people looked at them but: "our method successfully generalized the reconstruction to artificial shapes, indicating that our model indeed'reconstructs' or'generates' images from brain activity, not simply matches to exemplars."