Study: AI Can Recreate Mental Images from Brain Scans
Can AI recreate images from human brains? New research shows that it can be done.
Researchers in Japan have used artificial intelligence (AI) to recreate the images that people have seen by analyzing their brain scans, a method that could potentially lead to the recording of human dreams and aid in the communication of people with paralysis.
By using an algorithm called Stable Diffusion, the researchers were able to incorporate photo captions into the process of deciphering brain activity patterns, helping the AI system to create realistic versions of the images seen by the subjects, without relying on large data sets.
While the system struggled to replicate objects, it succeeded in creating accurate images of the layout and perspective of the photos.
Read more:
- Osaka University Study: High-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity
- Science.org: AI re-creates what people see by reading their brain scans
- Scientific American: AI Can Re-create What You See from a Brain Scan
- Smithsonian Magazine: This A.I. Used Brain Scans to Recreate Images People Saw
