Westwood Financial Sells Ahwatukee Mercado, a Grocery-Anchored Center in Phoenix, Generating Excellent Returns
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NASA Selects Blue Origin for Astronaut Mission to the Moon
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Spain's Sacyr in talks to sell 45% of Irish motorway to Bestinver -sources
MADRID Sacyr is negotiating with Spanish firm Bestinver to sell its 45% stake in the Irish motorway N6
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Scientists find that AI can read thoughts from monitoring your brain activity
Scientists have revealed they had found a way to combine the technology of brain scans and artificial intelligence to transcribe “the gist” of people’s thoughts. Alex Huth, an assistant professor of neuroscience and computing science at the University of Texas at Austin, and a co-author on the new study published in Nature Neuroscience, said that ‘this is a real leap forward.’ The study was led by Huth and Jerry Tang, a doctoral student in computer science. The main development from this study is that it’s non-invasive. This means that subjects do not require surgical implants. Instead, brain activity is measured using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter In the study, individuals listened to hours of podcasts in the scanner. Then, given the participant’s consent to have their thoughts decoded, they listened to a new story and the machine-generated corresponding texts from brain activity. It’s not a word-for-word transcript. For example, when an individual heard the phrase ‘I don’t have my driver’s licence yet’, the model decoded the individual’s thoughts to read as ‘she has not even started to learn to drive yet.’ Even when participants thought up their own stories, the machine was able to decode their thoughts still. Tang acknowledged that the advancements made in the study had the potential for negative aftermath. Tang said, ‘we take very seriously the concerns that it could be used for bad purposes and have worked to avoid that.’ They ran tests that highlighted that unless the machine had been trained on an individual’s particular brain activity, it could not decode its thoughts. An individual had to allow for the machine to train their brain activity over a long period of time inside a fMRI scanner for it to work. Researchers also found that it was easy to ‘sabotage’ the machine. Three participants were told to tell a different story in their mind, or count by seven, while listening to one of the podcasts. The study highlights even more development with artificial intelligence, after the popularity of OpenAI’s Chat GPT has sparked debate around the potential of AI. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
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Woman who called police on Black bird-watcher faces skeptical court in employment appeal
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK A U.S. appeals court on Friday appeared unlikely to reinstate a lawsuit by
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Why Cats Like to Shove Their Butts in Your Face, According to an Animal Behavior Expert
Felines seem to love giving their human friends a face full of cat butt. Should we be disgusted, or flattered?
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The beautiful collaboration of Nicole Holofcener and Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Nicole Holofcener found a fast friend in Julia Louis-Dreyfus a decade ago, when she cast her as a kind of alter-ego in the 2013 romantic comedy “Enough Said.”
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Lead Republican negotiator says US debt-ceiling talks paused-media
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Talks between U.S. House of Representatives Republicans and Democratic President Joe Biden's administration about raising the federal government's
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What happens when $2 trillion is sucked out of the global economy? It may not be pretty
Central banks have been credited with averting a global depression twice over the past 15 years: Once after the 2008 financial crisis, and again at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Myanmar media guide
An overview of the media in Myanmar, including links to broadcasters and newspapers.
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Hollywood pushback on writers strike is obscene: Sean Penn
Actor Sean Penn gave his full support to the ongoing writers' strike in Hollywood on Friday, saying it was a "human obscenity" that studios were not...
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Oklahoma Virtual Charter Academy to Celebrate 2023 Commencement
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