Rats used a strange virtual type of telekinesis to move objects in a virtual environment in a new experiment.
Researchers used artificial intelligence to teach rats how to move objects in virtual reality by simply thinking about where they want them to go. The result is an intriguing type of rat telekinesis that could help us better understand how the brain works. The experiment is detailed in aThe investigation was led by Albert Lee and his colleagues at Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia.
To explore the full depths of this strange rat telekinesis, the researchers let rats get used to moving a ball through the virtual environment, roughly one square meter. If the rats could move the ball to a tall column, then they were rewarded with water. Once the rats were accustomed to the experiment, the researchers took away the treadmill.
The AI successfully used the brain-machine interface the researchers created to determine where the rats wanted to move the object in the VR environments. This research suggests that rats can both recall and even imagine moving to remote locations. These imaginations then changed the brain activity in the rat, which allowed for the telekinesis-like experiment to work., so it’s possible that these tests could also be easily designed to work in the human brain, too.
The hope is that similar brain-interface machines could help people with paralysis to control different devices, allowing them to move with its assistance. The problem there, though, is that the AI would need to be trained to decode those brain signals for any new environment, which could prove tricky.
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