I  have a photographic memory, and I’m a time-space synesthete. That means I can visualize, in photorealistic detail, basically any place I’ve eve

Computers Will Be Able to Read Images From Your Brain Within a Decade

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2021-05-29 04:30:05

I have a photographic memory, and I’m a time-space synesthete. That means I can visualize, in photorealistic detail, basically any place I’ve ever been. I can also imagine nonexistent places and fly around them in my brain like I’m in a video game.

It’s a cool thing to be able to do for myself, and the abi lity to imagine a particular shot in advance is helpful in my career as a photographer. I’d love to share these mental images with others, but there’s a catch: I suck at drawing. I can imagine a place like the Cathedral of Notre Dame or the interior of my first apartment in realistic detail, but if I pick up a pen and try to draw what I’m seeing in my mind’s eye, it comes out looking like the cheerful, aimless scribbles of a two-year-old.

I was excited, then, to learn about an artificial intelligence system from researchers at Kyoto University that is able to do something remarkable: Leveraging breakthroughs in deep learning and generative networks, it can read the images a person sees in their mind’s eye and transform them into digital photographs with up to 99% accuracy.

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