Advancements in AI allow for non-invasive mind-reading through text conversion.

An AI-based decoder has been developed that can translate brain activity into a continuous stream of text, allowing a person's thoughts to be read non-invasively for the first time. The decoder could reconstruct speech with uncanny accuracy while people listened to a story or even silently imagined one using only fMRI scan data. The achievement overcomes a fundamental limitation of fMRI, which is that while the technique can map brain activity to a specific location with incredibly high resolution, there is an inherent time lag, which makes tracking activity in real-time impossible.