Anicet Mbida 06:51, March 10, 2023

Anicet Mbida delivers to us every morning what is best in terms of innovation.

This Friday, he is interested in a GPS mask, intended for the orientation of skiers.

The innovation of the day is the mysteries of our brain a little more revealed.

Researchers have managed not only to read our minds.

But also, to visualize the images that we have in the head.

It's amazing, it looks like a magic trick.

Imagine: I suggest you choose a photo from a catalog.

I then ask you to look at it carefully and memorize it.

Then I put a helmet on your head that will analyze your brain activity.

After a few seconds, the photo you have stored will appear on a screen.

This is not a medium-psychic-telepath number.

This is what scientists from the University of Osaka in Japan have succeeded in doing.

They have just published a study detailing their work.

Their conclusion: we can read thoughts and transform into images what is stored in our brain.

It's fascinating… And what do these images look like?

At the top, we see the photo that has been stored.

Below, the one that was read directly from the brain.

You see it: it's not perfect, it lacks details.

But we still manage to recognize a teddy bear, an alley with trees and we guess a plane with clouds.

They repeated the test with thousands of photos.

And on average, 80% of the generated images are very close to the original ones.

So we imagine the interest when we want to make a composite portrait.

We could have it instantly.

But could we also… read someone's password directly from their brain?

Fortunately not !

For several reasons.

First, the analysis of brain activity must be done with an MRI.

Given the size of the machine and its price, it is not within everyone's reach.

Then, the study is based only on photos.

We have no idea how memories, passwords or bank card codes are stored.

Finally, the person must absolutely be consenting.

I spoke about it with specialists.

They are unanimous.

You can't extract something from someone's memory if they're not actively thinking about it.

No one will be able to extract information from you without your knowledge.

We get closer to the computer that reads thoughts.

But in the end, we are still very far from it.