The World Economic Forum Is Pursuing Mind-Reading Technology In A Battle ‘For Your Brain’

Are you thinking what I’m thinking? With the advent of new mind reading technology, this question may be made redundant. Firstly, because it may soon be possible to recreate imagery directly from your thoughts, and secondly, because tools are being developed to put it there.

The Natural Scenes Dataset “is a large-scale fMRI dataset conducted at ultra-high-field (7T) strength at the Center of Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) at the University of Minnesota.”

This is data captured by a magnetic resonance imaging machine, much like the ones used to perform scans in hospital. This one is different, as it is being used solely to record human brain activity when subjects are presented with a series of images. The results are being used to train technology with the aim of being able to capture and reproduce your thoughts.

A paper submitted on the efficacy of this technology in capturing specific images has published its results and its methodology. It is still awaiting peer-review,...

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