Computers are learning to read our minds

<p><a href="https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/gasper-begus">Gašper</a>’s work combines machine learning, statistical modeling, neuroimaging, and behavioral experiments “to better understand how neural networks learn internal representations in speech and how humans learn to speak.”</p><p>One thing that surprised him about <a href="https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/gan/gan_structure">generative adversarial networks (GANs)</a>? How innovative they are, capable of generating English words they’ve never heard before based on words they have.</p><p>Read about <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/health/ai-stroke-speech-neuroscience.html">how AI is restoring a stroke survivor’s ability to speak</a>.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar">Universal grammar</a> proposes a hypothetical structure in the brain responsible for humans’ innate language abilities. The concept is credited to the famous linguist Noam Chomsky; read <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html">his take on GenAI</a>.</p><p>AI expert <a href="https://yoshuabengio.org/">Yoshua Bengio</a> recently signed an <a href="https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/">open letter</a> asking AI labs to pause the training of AI systems powerful enough to pass the <a href="https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/definition/Turing-test">Turing test</a>. Read about <a href="https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/04/05/slowing-down-development-of-ai-systems-passing-the-turing-test/">his reasoning</a>.</p><p>Find the Berkeley Speech and Communication Network <a href="https://twitter.com/berkeleysclab">here</a>.</p><p>Find Gašper on <a href="https://gbegus.github.io/">his website</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/begusgasper?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gbegus/">LinkedIn</a>. Or dive into <a href="https://scholar.google.si/citations?user=r7gAWagAAAAJ&hl=sl">his research</a>.</p><p>Con