Can AI Read Your Mind?

By identifying patterns in neural firings, non-invasive AI systems are learning to decode human thought and translate the result into language. Leading researchers Michael Blumenstein and Jerry Tang join Brian Greene to describe the latest achievements of such "mind reading technologies" and where this research may shortly take us.

Participants:
Michael Blumenstein
Jerry Tang

Moderator:
Brian Greene

00:00 - Introduction
07:28 - Participant Introductions
10:27 - Decoding Thoughts with AI Using FMRI
23:34 - Reading EEG Signals Using AI
32:08 - The Future of Encoding Thoughts
35:46 - What Does Decoding Teach Us About How Words Work in the Brain?
37:48 - How Accurate is EEG and FMRI Decoding and How Can it Improve?
42:56 - Credits

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[XIII-TheBlackCat]

Anytime I think something I get an Ad for it.

[omniinvestments]

I laid this out in detail to several friends 15 years ago on how it could be done. The only difference is these researchers actually put it in action because they have more resources available to them.

[workingTchr]

What amazes me no end is how well AI understands MY INTENT when I cobble together a question or comment from a string of words. For me, that's what's truly "miraculous" about AI.

[mycount]

The conversation about how much data is required to predict outcomes is fascinating

[OhioCreationsOfAI]

But I thought it would be more like reading your micro expressions and just knowing if you're lying or not, not necessarily reading your mind

[SpringerRider]

"I know what you are thinking" is going to be taken to a whole new level!

[manslaughterinc.]

Imagine advanced interrogation techniques being used inside an fMRI. Absolutely terrifying. Serious Clockwork Orange vibes.

[Randy-oszz]

Needless to say there is no boundaries in creative thinking

[rohullahkarimi]

It's already doing that by social media 🤣

[rudihoffman]

This is indeed fascinating! I was just at a cryogenics conference with neuroscientists working on similar tech, although this Aussie and his team are even more into the “ bringing sci-fi. Into reality”
Stage . Bravo to all involved!

[celestino]

Agreed, Smart phones can already read our minds and provide an ad on something that we were thinking about. Talk about privacy.

[PlaydoughPlato]

This strikes me as quite like asking a panel of astronauts what’s on the other side of a black hole.

[davidfinkledrums]

Truly fascinating and thought-provoking ias to where it is all heading...the good...AND the bad.

[Anna.Bystrik]

Thank you for an interesting broadcast. Note, a varying magnetic field cannot be shielded from (except with costly mu metal), the brain of the person being decoded could be thus affected by a competitor or somebody just messing with your research: do monitor for micro emf, that must be a staple requirement for any experiment in the field. We are biowired for emotions, not for cold logic that we use as an alternative language when we "do math". These techniques will predict words of pains and joys, not, say, thoughts of strategies and theorem proving. Brain is affected not only by thoughts, but by mulltiple external stimuli: the said emf, the smells, the light, the temperature, a random assosiation, ... A thought differs from a spoken word that we can filter and control, it is way more noisy (as the host has pointed) and messy. Correlations the guests base their research on: clearly, there are more variables, than one could account for. Ultimately, a cool line of new research, telling us about us (but what :), the truth or some lies). The individual shopping trends it will probably predict well 😂, so there are startup money on the horizon...

[MG-MiladGaming]

I like how the call the person being tested a user

[Superbrains]

Could we club these both two approaches to get both good temporal and spatial readings?

[Tactical_DZ]

It can't read your mind, but the data you feed it helps it learn, so we should be careful to regulate and control the development of AI, or else it will be used in chaotic ways to benefit those who see it as a weapon or tool to gain advantage of some kind.

[victorakakpo]

Personally, i think so. I was talking with a friend about a topic and the next day. I got a notification about that same topic.

[frankallen]

Makes sense all communication is in wave lengths and patterns of the wave lengths. AI can pick up the patterns and formulate meanings. Research into Wale communication is trying to understand Wale language through AI pattern recognition.

[Thecrucialdruggy]

Only when you recognize that it is signaling responses to thoughts in your mind, however phonetically obvious and abstract the image or word is that responds to the thoughts imposed.