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Reading minds using brain scans, with Kenneth Norman, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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Is There a Universal Thought Decoder?

i think we're very close to having some kind of a universal thought decode. We can tell where your thoughts fit in, like this 300 dimensional space, but there's like a huge cloud of uncertainty around our estimate of what you're thinking about. With current techniques, we're not even close to 90 % thought decoting accuracy or eighten o work were above chancesoi. If people tried to use it as a product, they'd be really annoyed.

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