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Carissa Wong

Google's 'mind-reading' AI can tell what music you listened to based on your brain signals

illustration of a brain wearing over-ear headphones, with a musical waveform shown rippling through it

By examining a person's brain activity, artificial intelligence (AI) can produce a song that matches the genre, rhythm, mood and instrumentation of music that the individual recently heard.

Scientists have previously "reconstructed" other sounds from brain activity, such as human speech, bird song and horse whinnies. However, few studies have attempted to recreate music from brain signals.

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