No mind meld


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  • Wednesday, 21 Jun 2023

Enticing prospect: The power of ChatGPT was harnessed to teach the system to ‘read’ brain scan data. — Getty Images/TNS

AI is helping us read minds, but should we?

SINCE mind reading has only existed in the realms of fantasy and fiction, it seems fair to apply the phrase to a system that uses brain scan data to decipher stories that a person has read, heard, or even just imagined. It’s the latest in a series of spooky linguistic feats fuelled by artificial intelligence, and it’s left people wondering what kinds of nefarious uses humanity will find for such advances.

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