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Joshua Krook, Research Fellow in Responsible Artificial Intelligence, University of Southampton

RARE PHOTOS: Mri scans and ai technology really could read what we re thinking the implications are terrifying | Rare Historical Photos

MRI scans use strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images of the brain. Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock

For the first time, researchers have managed to use GPT1, precursor to the AI chatbot ChatGPT, to translate MRI imagery into text in an effort to understand what someone is thinking.

This recent breakthrough allowed researchers at the University of Texas at Austin to “read” someone’s thoughts as a continuous flow of text, based on what they were listening to, imagining or watching.

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