A robot that thinks.

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Professor Xavier and Jean Gray have something to worry about.

While the psychic powers of the two X-Men remain in the realm of comics or movies, an American AI has proven that she can read our minds.

Developed by a team from the University of California at San Francisco, this "telepathic" artificial intelligence manages to decode in real time 97% of the words of the patients to which it is connected.

An exploit financed by… Facebook.

Ethics, techniques and medicine… The announcement of this discovery raises a whole host of questions.

Elena Sender, the neuroscience specialist for

Sciences et Avenir

magazine

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answers the question at the microphone of “Sixième Science”.

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