I imagine the best case outcome would look something like Jack Gallant's 2011 work on visual mind reading, where they trained a model on brain activity watching

I imagine the best case outcome would look something like Jack Gallant's 2011 work on visual mind reading, where they trained a model on brain activity watching hundreds of hours of YouTube and then attempted to reconstruct a view of video not in the training set by correlating the new brain activity with frames from the input... Sorry I'm not explaining very clearly but there's a YouTube video of the result naturally :) https://youtu.be/nsjDnYxJ0bo https://youtu.be/nsjDnYxJ0bo Learned about this from Mary Lou Jepsens 2013 TED talk, what a throwback https://www.ted.com/talks/mary_lou_jepsen_could_future_devices_read_images_from_our_brains/ https://www.ted.com/talks/mary_lou_jepsen_could_future_devic...