This week scientists reveal the system that takes computers a step closer to reading our minds.

It's kind of creepy, right? We're actually kind of reading thoughts out of someone's head.

But one day the approach made possible by chat gPT-like technology could be used to understand

the thoughts of people with serious neurological conditions.

There are a lot of people who have lost the ability to communicate for various reasons,

often because of strokes or brain surgery to fix other things like brain tumors.

Then again, at the speed AI systems are developing,

who knows what the future holds.

Jeffrey Hinton, the British Canadian scientist, dubbed the godfather of AI resigned from Google this

week warning of the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. The issue is

now that we've discovered it works better than we expected a few years ago. What do we do to mitigate the long-term risks

of things more intelligent than us taking control?

So how does the Mind Dakota work?

Where could the research take us next?

And how do we safeguard our mental privacy?

I'm the Guardian Science Editor Ian Sample,

and this is Science Weekly.

Alex Hooth, you're an assistant professor of neuroscience and computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. of

neuroscience and computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.

And you and your team have just done something really quite fascinating.

You've made an AI decoder, but tell us in a nutshell really what that is and what it does.

Yeah, so we created a system that takes brain scans and reads out the words that

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