01-10-2026 12:32 via technologyreview.com

An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at from a brain scan

A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and re-create that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at. In the image above, for example, the left-hand image of each pair is what the user actually saw—and its right-hand counterpart is what the model reconstructed based on the brain scan.  Michal Irani, who developed the to
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