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What would it take to actually read someone’s mind? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore the science and ethics of decoding thoughts with Jean-Rémi King, a neuroscience researcher at Meta’s Paris lab.
Can an AI recreate an image someone is seeing based on their brain signals? Learn how researchers use fMRI scans, electrodes, and AI to try to translate the brain’s signals. How do scientists filter out the noise to link a stimulus to a brain response? We talk about how our brain perceives images and how “the mind’s eye” may be different across individuals. Why can some people vividly picture an apple while others can’t visualize at all?
We investigate how universal brain structures compare to the unique variability between individuals and how AI often mirrors the brain’s processing stages. Can AI help us model perception, language comprehension, and the way children learn so quickly? Could it give a voice to people who can think but can’t speak? What are the limits of current technology, and could physics itself prevent instant mind-reading outside the lab?
Along the way, we debate whether the brain organizes itself innately or through experience, how ethical guardrails should be set, and what dystopian futures we should guard against. They tackle dream decoding, language acquisition, and even whether a machine could ever capture the human creativity that may derive from our brain’s noise. Is it that very noise that makes us human?
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