Toward a real-time decoding of images from brain activity

Imagine if our brains could be scanned and the contents of our thoughts could be read. A team of researchers and also Meta have just achieved this feat by using AI. This episode takes a look at it. Links:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19812 https://ai.meta.com/blog/brain-ai-image-decoding-meg-magnetoencephalography/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/science/ai-speech-language.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01304-9**

What do you think are the ramifications of this research?