"Imagine a reality where computers can visualize what you are thinking," said Catherine Clifford at CNBC. Over 10 months, scientists at Kyoto University scanned the brain activity of subjects who were shown images — of animals and objects, geometric shapes, and letters of the alphabet — and later when subjects were asked to recall the images. Both sets of brain scans were then used to train a neural network to "decode" the data and recreate what the person had been thinking about.
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