In The Blink Of AI

Inside Neural Decoding: How AI

Turns Brain Signals Into Meaning

Josh Vinson

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Hosted by Georgie Healy

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43 min

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About This Episode

About This Episode

Josh Vinson works at the edge where AI meets the human brain. With a background in psychology and

machine learning, he is part of a growing group of engineers exploring neural decoding, the emerging

field focused on translating brain signals into meaningful insights about thought, intent, and

experience. While the idea of "reading thoughts" still sounds like science fiction, Josh explains why

parts of it are already real, and why recent advances in large language models have quietly accelerated

progress in this space.

In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie Healy sits down with Josh to unpack how brain computer

interfaces actually work, what separates invasive implants like Neuralink from noninvasive approaches

such as EEG, and why the hardest challenges are not ethical or philosophical but technical. They

explore the twin problems of noisy hardware and radically different brains, and what it would take for

neural decoding to become reliable enough for clinical and everyday use.

The conversation stretches beyond medicine into the future of communication itself. From experience

transfer and lucid dreaming headsets to brain wearables that could track attention, presence, and

mental fatigue, Josh shares a clear-eyed view of what might be possible and what should give us pause.

If you're curious about where human cognition and artificial intelligence truly begin to blur, this

episode offers a grounded look at what's coming and why it matters.

Topics Covered

AI

Neural Decoding

Brain-Computer Interfaces

Machine Learning

Neuralink

EEG

Cognitive Science

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