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Re:Reading mind and Visualizing thoughts using AI by mark_l_watson on Friday September 04, 2020 @08:54AM (#24374462)
So high level MRI data features are correlated with reported thoughts. This sounds like interesting research but they are far away from any sort of usable system.

This reminds me of people getting excited by natural language advances of BERT and other transformer models because they think the models actually understand language, instead of the truth that these model are just very good at predicting words around a point of interest in text.

That said, the article is worth reading.

Re:Reading mind and Visualizing thoughts using AI by visarga on Friday September 04, 2020 @11:58AM (#24376114)
> these model are just very good at predicting words around a point of interest in text

Well, yes, but quantity has a quality of its own. Train it with lots of data for emergent behaviour.