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Artificial Intelligence Is Teaching Us New, Surprising Things About the Human Mind

Thought is ever-changing electrical patterns unconnected to individual neurons. Meta is working on a system to read your mind.

A researcher demonstrates the brain-scanning magnetoencephalography device at New York University, where data was gathered that was later used in research conducted by Facebook parent company Meta. Jin S. Lee
Christopher Mims hedcutBy Christopher Mims

The world has been learning an awful lot about artificial intelligence lately, thanks to the arrival of eerily human-like chatbots.

Less noticed, but just as important: Researchers are learning a great deal about us – with the help of AI. 

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