A new study shows that an AI can read a person's mind using brain activity. The machine produces text that closely and sometimes precisely matches the intended meanings of the original words. This is obviously a pretty mind-blowing technology that has a ton of applications. It could be used to help people who had strokes or who had other diseases that didn't allow them control over their motor functions, to say nothing of potential research applications which could be enormous as well.
Our main discussion is focused on new research out of the University of Texas Austin on GPT-like AI that, after being trained on a particular person's brain, can translate their thoughts into text.
The news brief covers:
IBM replacing 7800 future hires with AI
Dropbox lays off 500 in pivot to AI
Meta AI on earnings call
Amazon building improved LLM for Alexa
Geoffrey Hinton 'Godfather of AI' leaves Google to warn of dangers of AI
White House looking into use of AI for employee tracking
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