Artificial intelligence (AI) can discover who you are attracted to.
A computer program could generate images of faces it knew certain users would find attractive by examining brain scans.
Its part of a growing effort to build computers that can understand our thoughts.
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There was an increase in brain activity when participants were shown a picture of a face they found attractive.
Some AI systems already available are trying to predict our thoughts without measuring the brain.
Such a system might be used to choose the content to be catered to a given user.
If it becomes available, AI that uses brain scans likely would be used for profit, Armstrong said.
For example, Rege noted that human visual and neural networks process images through different layers.
And yet, despite that similarity, we still dont really know how the human brain functions.
But getting AI to work like the brain is incredibly complex, experts say.
“If you are too close, brain cells seem like chaotic devices,” Kaufmann said.
“Understanding the principles of intelligence can be the ultimate booster to human progress,” Kaufmann said.
“And it could open an era of completely new applications.”
