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Artificial intelligence turns thoughts into images

A team of researchers from Stanford University, the National University of Singapore, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong collected and visualized data on brain activity while participants were shown pictures in an experiment they conducted. The images on the left show the reference image shown to the study participants. The images on the right are those that the artificial intelligence created after parsing the participants' brain scans.

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The technology still has a long way to go before it can be used widely. However, Zijiao Chen, a PhD student at the National University of Singapore and one of the researchers on the study, wrote in an e-mail to Insider that with further development of the technology, it could be used in medicine, psychology and neuroscience.