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Artificial intelligence in Russia is getting good at reading minds. An AI could guess videos people were watching based on their brainwaves.
They recorded the brainwaves of people watching different video clips and showed the videos again and let the AI try to figure out which videos were being watched by the study subjects. The computers were right about 90% of the time.
Mind-reading AIs are still only looking at the surface of human thought, says Victor Sharmas at the University of Arizona. “What we are currently seeing is a caricature of human experience, but nothing remotely resembling an accurate recreation,” he says.