Press for Makin et al., "Machine Translation of Cortical Activity to Text"

Press for Makin et al., "Machine Translation of Cortical Activity to Text"

Event Date: August 3, 2020
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Joseph's work decoding spoken speech from neural activity is reported widely in the popular press.

Dr. Makin's work (in the lab of Eddie Chang at UCSF) used artificial neural networks to decode spoken sentences, word by word, from the electrocorticogram.  Despite occasional hyperbole about "mind reading," the coverage was generally quite positive.

BBC, New Scientist, Ars Technica, others.

For liberals: The Guardian

For conservatives: Fox News