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Interesting stuff, but I think a far cry from the reading people's dreams they believe is possible in the future. Why? They've established the basic principle.

• kirse 18y ago
  They've established the basic principle. All it needs now is refinement. This "basic principle" is no different when they do other MRIs that can detect patterns in brain activity (specific to one individual). The computers aren't doing any interpretation of brain activity here, just recognizing what it has been preprogrammed to to recognize. What you're proposing is that we build a recognition database of every single brain pattern and its correlating image. Damn, what kind of computer does that remind you of? Oh yea - the human brain! Not only that, but each individual has unique brain patterns, so this "computer" would have to be able to interpret a wide variety of signals. We're so far off from understanding the brain that this isn't happening, ever.
  • liuliu 18y ago
    You lead the topic to a very big question. If you think here computer is not doing any interpretation, what you actually say is computer learning methods don't mean computer can think. In this article, scientists do make computer do some "interpretation" because the training data and test data are different. (NEW images and reconstruct). People here have much more to do to fulfill the goal of "reconstructing high resolution, color image", but the problem is not computers do think or not.