Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working on software that will get to know you as well as your best mate – and even offers you advice.

Two MIT scientists, Nathan Eagle and Sandy Pentland, are working on the ‘mind-reading program’, according to New Scientist and are currently running the software on 100 Nokia smart phones that they’ve given to students to try out.

The software is designed to get to know people’s habits by studying behaviour with pattern recognition software – for example, studying location to find out how long the phone user spends at home or work and logging which people the user spends the most time talking to.

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