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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to a special episode of Decoder! We’re Nick and Kate, the show’s producers, and for this year-end episode, we’re turning the tables on Nilay and making him answer your listener questions.

Sigal Samuel is a correspondent for Vox’s Future Perfect. She writes primarily about the future of consciousness, tracking advances in artificial intelligence and neuroscience and their staggering ...

Most experimental brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that have been used for synthesizing human speech have been implanted in the areas of the brain that translate the intention to speak into the muscle ...