The download: Stereotypes and AI models in the new age
How close are we to genuine “mind reading?”
Technically speaking, neuroscientists have been able to read your mind for decades. You must first lie motionless in a fMRI scanner for hours while watching films or listening to audiobooks. First, you must lie motionless within a fMRI scanner, perhaps for hours, while you watch films or listen to audiobooks.
If you do elect to endure claustrophobic hours in the scanner, the software will learn to generate a bespoke reconstruction of what you were seeing or listening to, just by analyzing how blood moves through your brain.
More recently, researchers have deployed generative AI tools, like Stable Diffusion and GPT, to create far more realistic, if not entirely accurate, reconstructions of films and podcasts based on neural activity. So how close are we to genuine “mind reading?” Read the full story.
–Grace Huckins
We can still have nice things
A place for comfort, fun and distraction to brighten up your day. You can still have nice things. (Got any ideas? You’re not the only one who has to deal with the constant shouting of “six-seven” by parents and teachers. How old is The Legend of Zelda” Majora’s Mask?
