Tag Archives: artificial intelligence

Brain Computer Interfaces have got us used to see helmets of sort with plenty of wires coming out of them or, even worse, boxes plugged on the skull through surgery to connect with electrodes implanted in or on the brain. In other words from inconvenient to scaring. Now researchers at …

In Italy the sentence  “Verba volant, scripta manent” is often used, although it is not Italian but Latin. That is the sentence that came to mind when I read the news of the availability of a spoken interaction with ChatGTP. Whereas till yesterday you had to type your questions and …

Although we are still far away from reading thoughts in a brain it seems that we may be inching forward. The latest I saw was the article “Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non invasive brain recording” published on Nature NeuroScience by researchers at the University of Texas, Austin. The …

In yesterday post I discussed the difficulties in understanding the language of our genome. Today, I run onto a different language understanding issue: understanding chickens clucking. Yes, it is on a completely different level of interest and of practical application, but still I found intriguing the idea that we might …

I still remember the excitement at the turn of the century with the human genome sequencing. The hope to identify the root cause of many genome based diseases and thereafter a cure by tweaking the genome seemed about to come true. Actually, in these 20 years we overcome many hurdles, …

Before Facebook was FaceMash. That was a sort of prank developed by Mark Zuckerberg (I am using his words) when he was a student. He harvested thousands of girls photos and displayed them, one at a time, asking the viewer if he liked the “girl” or rather skip that one …

I read a nice article by Melissa Heikkilä on The Algorithm, MIT Technology Review, making a point that part of AI is already “boring” and the exciting one, like today’s Generative AI, will soon become boring too. With “boring” Melissa meant an AI that has disappeared from our perception, and …

I got used to claims of AI everywhere, including in a toothbrush. Many of these claims are just marketing, riding the wave of AI (in a way isn’t this curious? Many people are scared of AI, yet commercials are riding the AI wave to sell merchandise…), others have a sprinkle …

This is the “news“: a team of researchers at UCSF Berkeley has managed to “decode” the brain intention to pronounce a sentence into a spoken sentence. The feat involves a patient, Ann, that had a stroke several years ago and lost the use of the voice (along with several other …

The tale of the Babel Tower that couldn’t be completed because God confused the workers by having them speaking different languages thus making mutual understanding impossible is rooted in the variety of languages that were spoken by different tribes in the Middle East relatively small area. That was the consequence …