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MIND-READING AI RECREATES WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT WITH AMAZING ACCURACY

Giving AI systems the ability to focus on particular brain regions can make them
much better at reconstructing images of what a monkey is looking at from brain
recordings

By Michael Le Page

4 July 2024

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Top row: original images. Second row: images reconstructed by AI based on brain
recordings from a macaque. Bottom row: images reconstructed by the AI system
without an attention mechanism

Thirza Dado et al.



Artificial intelligence systems can now create remarkably accurate
reconstructions of what someone is looking at based on recordings of their brain
activity. These reconstructed images are greatly improved when the AI learns
which parts of the brain to pay attention to.

“As far as I know, these are the closest, most accurate reconstructions,” says
Umut Güçlü at Radboud University in the Netherlands.



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