Scientists develop AI that can turn brain activity into text

[Judi Lynn]

Researchers in US tracked the neural data from people while they were speaking

Nicola Davis

@NicolaKSDavis
Mon 30 Mar 2020 11.00 EDT

Reading minds has just come a step closer to reality: scientists have developed artificial intelligence that can turn brain activity into text.

While the system currently works on neural patterns detected while someone is speaking aloud, experts say it could eventually aid communication for patients who are unable to speak or type, such as those with locked in syndrome.

“We are not there yet but we think this could be the basis of a speech prosthesis,” said Dr Joseph Makin, co-author of the research from the University of California, San Francisco.

Writing in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Makin and colleagues reveal how they developed their system by recruiting four participants who had electrode arrays implanted in their brain to monitor epileptic seizures.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/30/scientists-develop-ai-that-can-turn-brain-activity-into-text

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2. It only works with vocal speech.

I wonder if that means you have to talk out loud or maybe just form the words, for people that can’t speak out loud.