The Machines That We Are

Via the New Scientist:

You can now experience the world through someone else’s eyes by tapping into their brain activity. Jack Gallant and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley developed a technique that uses brain scans to reconstruct what a person is seeing. In the video above, it’s used to recreate film clips that a person is watching.

The team first measured brain activity produced while a person watched hours of movies. They used this data to create a model that can predict the neural activity that would be elicited by any given movie.

Then brain activity was recorded while a volunteer watched a new set of videos and the model was used to select the clips they were most likely viewing. Combining the model’s best guesses produced a blurry but reasonable approximation of the original clip.

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2 Responses to The Machines That We Are

  1. Mark says:

    No good will come of this.

  2. John says:

    “No son, you can’t go to the party.”
    “But Dad, it’s just a few friends.”
    “Well, I’ll let you go, as long as you wear the SeeingEye 5000 that uploads to my iPad7″
    (sighing)”Well, alright.”

    PS: RIP Steve Jobs.

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