Scientists have developed a mind-reading machine that can visualize your thoughts

A team from the University of Oregon have developed a system that can read people's thoughts via brain scans, and rebuild the faces they were visualising in their heads. The study, led by Brice Kuhl and Hongmi Lee from the University of Oregon, used artificial intelligence (AI) that analysed brain activity in an attempt to reconstruct one of a series of faces that participants were seeing. It's not an exact science, but the AI did get close. "We can take someone's memory – which is typically something internal and private – and we can pull it out from their brains," Kuhl told Vox. "Some people use different definitions of mind reading, but certainly, that's getting close," Kuhl told Vox. Kuhl and his colleague Lee recently published a paper in The Journal of Neuroscience with a conclusion straight out of science fiction: Kuhl and Lee created images directly from memories using an MRI, some machine learning software, and a few hapless human guinea pigs.