from driverless cars to 3d printing, artificial intelligence has been transforming how we live our lives for a while now. but the bbc s panorama has been investigating the potential risks and benefits the ai revolution is bringing, and lara lewington has been to the us, to see whether it could one day be capable of reading our minds. hi, laura. hi, good to meet you. thank you for having us. come on in. thanks very much. neuroscientist alexander huth has spent a decade trying to understand how the brain works. if we want to build intelligent machines, maybe we want to make things that act more like human brains. so that s kind of what got me into neuroscience. this year, his team had a breakthrough. using ai technology that can understand language, they ve built a computer that can read minds. we scan people s brains with an fmri scanner while theyjust listen to stories. so we track how their brains respond while they re listening to hours
record fee of £115m. from driverless cars to 3d printing, artificial intelligence has been transforming how we live our lives. but could it one day be capable of also reading our minds? research is under way in the united states to investigate just that. bbc click s lara lewington reports from texas. hi, lara. hi, good to meet you. thank you for having us. come on in. thanks very much. neuroscientist alexander houth has spent a decade trying to understand how the brain works. we want to build intelligent machines, maybe we want to make things that act more like human brains, so that is kind of what got me into neuroscience. this year his team had a breakthrough. using ai technology that can understand language they built a computer that can read minds.
you re live with bbc news. from driverless cars to sd printing artificial intelligence has been transforming how we live. but could ai one day be capable of reading our minds? lara lewington has been investigating the potential risks and benefits of the ai revolution for the bbc s panorama. hi, lara. hi, good to meet you. thank you for having us. come on in. thanks very much. neuroscientist alexander huth has spent a decade trying to understand how the brain works. if we want to build intelligent machines, maybe we want to make things that act more like human brains. so that s kind of what got me into neuroscience. this year, his team had a breakthrough. using ai technology that can understand language, they ve built a computer that can read minds. we scan people s brains with an fmri scanner
America’s Smithsonian Institution will return human brains which had been stolen from ethnic minorities as part of a plan to “demonstrate the superiority of white brains”.
from driverless cars to sd printing artificial intelligence has been transforming how we live. but could ai one day be capable of reading our minds? lara lewington of bbc panorama has been investigating the potential risks and benefits of the ai revolution hi, lara. hi, good to meet you. thank you for having us. come on in. thanks very much. neuroscientist alexander huth has spent a decade trying to understand how the brain works. if we want to build intelligent machines, maybe we want to make things that act more like human brains. so that s kind of what got me into neuroscience. this year, his team had a breakthrough. using ai technology that can understand language, they ve built a computer that can read minds. we scan people s brains with an fmri scanner while theyjust listen to stories. so we track how their brains respond while they re listening to hours and hours of stories.