Over the holidays I watched “A Christmas Story” for the gazillionth time. One of the scenes in the movie is Ralphie getting his secret decoder ring to unlock the mysteries of the universe. His ring ...

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 ...

As a long time social studies educator, it is cliche and almost obligatory that I love maps. My joy in pouring over a map is not limited to determining my destination and defining the clearest route ...

UT Austin researchers created a "semantic brain decoder" that can predict thoughts when participants listen to a podcast or imagine telling a story. The decoder did not translate thoughts ...

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 ...

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 ...