Watch a film through the eyes of a MOUSE: Scientists use AI to reconstruct its brain signals

Have you ever struggled to describe something to your friend that you watched on TV last night? Soon, you might be able to project your mental images onto the big screen, as scientists have been doing so with mice. A team from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can interpret the rodents' brain signals. The algorithm, named CEBRA, was trained to map neural activity to specific frames in videos, so it could then predict and reconstruct what a mouse is looking at. The news comes shortly after researchers at the University of Texas at Austin used AI to turn people's thoughts into text in real-time.