Scientists have developed a system using artificial intelligence that can turn brain activity into text. At the moment, it works on neural patterns interpreted when someone speaks aloud, but there is hope among researchers that it could eventually be used for patients who are unable to speak or type.Participants were asked to read aloud from 50 set sentences multiple times, including “Tina Turner is a pop singer,” and “Those thieves stole 30 jewels.” Scientists tracked their neural activity while they were speaking.All of this data was then fed into a machine-learning algorithm, according to the researchers' work published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, a type of artificial intelligence program that turned the brain activity data for each spoken sentence into a string of numbers.
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