Scientists at mit University in Kyoto , Japan have developed artificial intelligence ( AI ) and deep neural networks to enable a computer to recreate an image seen by a human according to a report on AI . Over 10 years , subjects were able to study images while their brain activity was logged . The team then reverse - engineered the images while an algorithm reconstructed the image . Even more excitingly , the AI software was able to repeat feat , albeit less successfully , when the human subjects simply thought about their images .
Scientists at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan have used artificial intelligence (AI) and deep neural networks to enable a computer to recreate an image seen by a human according to a paper on BioRxiv. Over 10 months, subjects were asked to study images while their brain activity was logged. The team then reverse-engineered the data while an algorithm reconstructed the image. Even more excitingly, the AI software was able to repeat feat, albeit less successfully, when the human subjects simply thought about their image.