Can computers decode dreams? Researchers take a first step

Friday, April 5, 2013 - 07:30 in Mathematics & Economics

A team in Japan writes a program that learns to predict dream images based on brain activity patterns.Dreams defy even the dreamer, slipping away as stealthily as they arrive in a mind made credulous by sleep. But what if scientists could read our dreams by using the most advanced medical imaging machines and employing the sophisticated algorithms that flag fraudulent transactions among millions of credit card purchases?

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