Generative artificial intelligence may someday spiral out of control; at least, this is the general idea behind the concerns of many skeptics regarding generative AI. While some express worries about the risks generative AI poses to humanity, others will undoubtedly be excited about the new development of generative AI that can read thoughts.
Based on new research conducted by a team of researchers, generative AI may be capable of recreating objects that a person is thinking about, with astonishing accuracy. However, it currently reads thoughts rather than actions. The technology analyzes brain activity recordings and uses the markers present to recreate images of what it is believed the person was viewing.
According to the researchers, the results improved significantly when the generative AI identified the parts of the brain it needed to focus on. To test this, the researchers first utilized functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to record the brain activity of three individuals shown a series of images. They then fed these recordings into the thought-reading generative AI to determine how closely it could recreate the images shown to the participants.
In this particular research, the results were accurate, and they also indicated that it is much easier for generative AI to recreate images that it had originally generated compared to those that were not created by it. This is likely related to the algorithms used by the generative AI systems to create the images in the first place. The researchers made their findings available on the preprint server bioRxiv.
