For more than a decade, Alexander Huth from the University of Texas at Austin had been striving to build a language decoder—a tool that could extract a person’s thoughts noninvasively from brain ...

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Learning English is no easy task, as countless students well know. But when the student is a computer, one approach works surprisingly well: Simply feed mountains of text from the internet to a giant ...

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) is seeking information on established techniques, metrics and capabilities related to the evaluation of generated text and the evaluation of ...

Meta’s new TRIBE AI model decodes brain activity with 70x higher resolution. Discover how this foundation model uses fMRI data to advance in-silico n.

A tool known as BERT can now beat humans on advanced reading-comprehension tests. But it's also revealed how far AI has to go. In the fall of 2017, Sam Bowman, a computational linguist at New York ...