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Sigal Samuel is a senior reporter for Vox's Future Perfect and a co-host of the podcast Future Perfect. Prior to joining Vox, Sigal was the Atlantic's religion editor, tracking advances in artificial intelligence and neuroscience and their staggering ethical implications. She writes primarily about the future of consciousness.
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Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a technique that can translate brain activity - such as the thoughts swirling through our heads - into actual speech, according to a study published in Nature.
In the past, researchers have shown that they can decode unspoken language by implanting electrodes in the brain and then using an algorithm that reads the brain’s activity and translates it...