Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have created a "semantic brain decoder" to guess someone's thoughts based on brain activity. During tests, it captured the gist of what someone was ...

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A new artificial intelligence system called a semantic decoder can translate a person's brain activity—while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story—into a continuous stream of text ...

Recently, my colleagues and I published a study on decoding language from brain recordings made using functional MRI. Brain decoders are being developed to help restore communication to people who ...

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is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. It’s a strange time to launch a new podcast about the future of business and tech in America. The pandemic ...

A new artificial intelligence system called a semantic decoder can translate a person’s brain activity — while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story — into a continuous stream of ...

The work relies in part on a transformer model, similar to the ones that power ChatGPT. Alex Huth (left), Shailee Jain (center) and Jerry Tang (right) prepare to collect brain activity data in the ...