The future is as cool and frightening as you might have thought.
X-ray vision is not on my list of super powers. I'll take what I can get if x-ray vision is closer to reality. The University of Glasgow is trying to combine artificial intelligence and human brain waves to identify objects around the corner. This month, it will be presented at the optical congress.
Daniele Faccio is a professor of quantum technologies at the school of physics and astronomy at the University of Glasgow. Extending the capability to provide 3D depth information is one of the next steps in this work.
New Atlas says that the research is part of a branch of technology that allows people to see things that are hidden. It sounds like a power Superman might have if it were necessary to beam a laser light onto a surface.
An object was projected onto a cardboard cutout. A person wearing a headset to monitor their brain waves can only see the diffuse light on a wall instead of the projected light patterns. The person's brain waves are fed into a computer and used to identify the object using artificial intelligence. The researchers were able to reconstruct images of objects that people couldn't see through an obstacle in about one minute.
"This is the first time that a human visual system can be used to adjust the images in real-time," Faccio said. Although we could have used a standard detector in place of the human brain, we wanted to explore methods that might one day be used to enhance human capabilities.
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