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Morning Edition · Sunday, June 28, 2026
Hassabis Says AI Is Getting Good at Reconstructing What People See, and Imagine
The DeepMind chief points to brain-scan-to-image systems as a fast-moving frontier, though the strongest results still rest on borrowed image generators.
Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of DeepMind, says AI is becoming surprisingly capable at reconstructing what people see and even imagine, with neuroscientists combining brain scans and generative models to recreate images a subject is v…
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