Texas A&M researchers received a grant from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to address the limitations of applying artificial intelligence tools in military scenarios.

Researchers at USC have made a significant breakthrough in understanding how the human brain forms, stores and recalls visual memories. A new study, published in Advanced Science, harnesses human patient brain recordings and a powerful machine learning model to shed new light on the brain’s internal code that sorts memories of objects into categories — think of it like the brain’s filing cabinet of imagery.

The results demonstrated that the research team could essentially read subjects’ minds, by pinpointing the category of visual image being recalled, purely from the precise timing of the subject’s neural activity.

Researchers are shortcutting complex equations with AI, paving the way for engineering and scientific breakthroughs.