Ashlee VanceNYT Best Seller | Reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek

EEG + AI = Mind Reading? This Company Thinks So. ##neurotech #deeptech

17 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Ashlee Vance. This content was uploaded by Ashlee Vance. This is a YouTube video titled "EEG + AI = Mind Reading? This Company Thinks So. ##neurotech #deeptech" (uploaded June 17, 2025). The excerpt is a short narrated/interview-style segment with two speakers describing San Francisco’s AI scene and a homemade GPU cluster, and introducing AllJoint (and a person named Jonathan) which aims to measure EEG signals and use AI to decode thoughts, emotions and images—envisioning head-worn devices that translate thought into actions and enable direct data transfer between people.

San Francisco has turned into an AI cult. And this is the cult's altar. It's a homemade GPU cluster. It's a metal container that's been filled with graphics chips. Historically, such chips have been used to run video games. At this moment, the graphics chips are being used to run artificial intelligence software. AllJoint wants to measure the electrical signals that flow through our brains and then use AI software to analyze and decode those signals.
Or as Jonathan puts it, we're a deep tech company trying to decode thoughts, emotions, images, all this high-level semantic stuff from EEG.
His hope is that improvements in AI may soon make it possible to read people's thoughts. Most of the companies trying to do this work envision a day when people wear a small device on their heads that translates their thoughts into actions. You could, for example, navigate around a computer or smartphone via thoughts alone. And obviously, Jonathan is hoping for the direct transfer of data from person to person.