An AI "mind-reading" tool can reconstruct what you're looking at from a brain scan

Scientists hope it could be used to reconstruct a person's inner thoughts, mental images, or even dreams.

In the image above, for example, the left-hand image of each pair is what the user actually saw"and its right-hand counterpart is what the model reconstructed from the brain scan.

Michal Irani, who developed the tool with her colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, hopes her "mind-reading" tool will ultimately reveal more about how the brain works, and could perhaps be used to help locked-in people communicate, or allow scientists to re-create the content of dreams.