Artificial Intelligence Translates Brain Activity Into Words - Robot News

We've all seen those sci-fi movies where the government can use a small device to read a person's mind, exposing their innermost thoughts. Usually, those films are set in the distant future with space aliens flying around. While we haven't found any aliens yet, mind-reading technology might not be that far off. Thanks to a recent breakthrough, computers have gotten a step closer to being able to read our thoughts. Using deep learning and a speech synthesizer, a team at Columbia University was able to translate brain activity into words.