TECH & SCIENCE: Technology- Is a Mind-Reading Device in the Future?

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By: Steven Sparkman   Anchor: LAUREN ZIMA

Researchers are one step closer to hacking into the human brain. New techniques from UC Berkeley let a computer listen to a conversation -- by scanning the brain. KPIX explains.

"They're decoding the electrical activity that happens when a patient hears a certain word. ... Researchers then attempt to reverse the process: take the brain activity and then have a computer model say the word."

The researchers read patients lists of words while measuring how the brain lights up. After the program learned its way around a particular brain, it could reproduce the sounds patients were hearing, even if the program hadn't learned that word before.

(Computer sounds) (Video source: UC Berkeley)

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Good thursday afternoon to you. I am Dylan Ratigan, we will have a great look at the casino war brewing between Sheldon Adelson and Donald Trump and their support of two different presidential candidates. Donald Trump and Shelley Adelson at each other's throats  but first, we're on day two of our 30 million jobs tour. 

Regardless of who the president is, if we don't reform taxes, trade, and banking in the belly of the beast here in Washington, D.C. in order to get the 30 million jobs, we  need to have investment in this country and the debate we deserve on those issues if you're going to have investment. It's the sub text of the 30 million jobs tour, the reason why we have chosen our nation's capital for the week three location of this ongoing effort throughout the year to get the conversation started among our elected leaders. 

Remember the issue of creating investment and 30 million jobs in america is not a left/right issue. it's the american issue. even the president acknowledges that the Washington culture has to change if we're going to have any chance of truly getting the debate america deserves.

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