Mind-reading computer systems that can produce high-fidelity images from your thoughts alone are coming. Are we a decade or less away from being able to think images into existence?
Short answer: less. Thank you for reading, see you all again next month. But before we dig into the long answer, let’s first answer the question of how this might be possible. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, recently began sharing the early results of a project, dubbed DINOv2, that has been in development for the past couple of years. The project involves researchers using magnetoencephalography (MEG) combined with AI to understand how the brain processes visual information.