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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)
