![]() These “brain-computer interfaces” focus on the part of the brain that controls the mouth when it tries to form words.Īlexander Huth, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas at Austin and co-author of a new study, said that his team's language decoder “works at a very different level”. ![]() Previous research has shown that a brain implant can enable people who can no longer speak or type to spell out words or even sentences. While the main goal of the language decoder is to help people who have the lost the ability to communicate, the US scientists acknowledged that the technology raised questions about “mental privacy”.Īiming to assuage such fears, they ran tests showing that their decoder could not be used on anyone who had not allowed it to be trained on their brain activity over long hours inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. ![]() PARIS: Scientists said on May 1 they have found a way to use brain scans and artificial intelligence modelling to transcribe “the gist” of what people are thinking, in what was described as a step towards mind reading. ![]()
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