May 1, 2023, 3 p.m. | Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian www.theguardian.com

Advance raises prospect of new ways to restore speech in those struggling to communicate due to stroke or motor neurone disease

An AI-based decoder that can translate brain activity into a continuous stream of text has been developed, in a breakthrough that allows a person’s thoughts to be read non-invasively for the first time.

The decoder could reconstruct speech with uncanny accuracy while people listened to a story – or even silently imagined one – using only fMRI scan data. …

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