There's a lot of room for this to be less spectacular than advertised. Still. "Investigators reverse engineered a specific natural memory by mapped the brain circuits underlying its formation. They then 'trained' another animal by stimulating brain cells in the pattern of the natural memory." As the article says, there are social and ethical factors to consider here. If successful, this takes deep fakes to another level. It's hard enough to know which of our thoughts to trust without the possibility that someone else has been authoring them.
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