{"id":163245,"date":"2023-05-02T17:27:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T22:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-used-ai-and-mri-scans-to-decode-thoughts-and-they-were-mostly-accurate"},"modified":"2023-05-02T17:27:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T22:27:16","slug":"researchers-used-ai-and-mri-scans-to-decode-thoughts-and-they-were-mostly-accurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-used-ai-and-mri-scans-to-decode-thoughts-and-they-were-mostly-accurate","title":{"rendered":"Researchers used AI and MRI scans to decode thoughts \u2014 and they were mostly accurate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-used-ai-and-mri-scans-to-decode-thoughts-and-they-were-mostly-accurate2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a noninvasive method, this is a real leap forward compared to what\u2019s been done before, which is typically single words or short sentences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What if someone could listen to your thoughts? Sure, that\u2019s highly improbable, you might say. Sounds very much like fiction. And we could have agreed with you, until yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have decoded a person\u2019s brain activity while they\u2019re listening to a story or imagining telling a story into a stream of text, thanks to artificial intelligence and MRI scans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor a noninvasive method, this is a real leap forward compared to what\u2019s been done before, which is typically single words or short sentences.\u201d What if someone could listen to your thoughts? Sure, that\u2019s highly improbable, you might say. Sounds very much like fiction. And we could have agreed with you, until yesterday. Researchers at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}