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By Ross Colvin (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott on Friday entered the 2024 presidential race, joining Donald Trump in

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK A U.S. appeals court on Friday appeared unlikely to reinstate a lawsuit by

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Russian branch of environmental group Greenpeace on Friday said it would shut down after authorities declared the

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.

By Sam Jabri-Pickett TORONTO (Reuters) -Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Friday that his government will put more money on

MADRID Sacyr is negotiating with Spanish firm Bestinver to sell its 45% stake in the Irish motorway N6

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave a clear signal he is inclined to pausing interest-rate increases next month

San Francisco officials are investigating Twitter after six former employees allege that owner Elon Musk’s leadership team broke laws in turning the company’s headquarters into a “Twitter Hotel” for workers being pushed to stay up late to transform the social media platform

Two employees of the US Mission in Nigeria have been found "alive and safe" days after an attack on a US convoy left seven others dead.

Debt ceiling talks between the White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy'a office have hit a snag, and negotiators have put a pause on the talks, multiple sources tell CNN.

By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Allison Lampert CHICAGO (Reuters) -American Airlines pilots have agreed in principle on a new contract,