This is some Black Mirror stuff right here. With maybe an extra pinch of Minority Report. Either way, it’s another melding of man and machine, and I’m all about that jazz.
A team of Canadian scientists conducted a series of experiments to determine if entire images could be pulled from a test subject’s memory. Subjects wearing an electroencephalography (EEG for short) cap were shown a quick series of images of faces.
The scientists monitored and recorded the subject’s brain activity as the images flashed. Afterwards, utilizing a learning algorithm, the team created images of the faces based entirely on the recorded brain activity. The resulting images, while not perfect, are surprisingly close to the actual stimuli.
Actually, the slight differences make it seem even more likely that the images came from memory, since most folks can’t recall things in perfect clarity. The scientists hope this technology can be used in law enforcement to recreate a criminal’s face from a witness’s memory.
