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At the 2025 AI-Driven Science Symposium, Tianqiao Chen, founder of the Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute, first introduced the concept of "Discoverative Intelligence." The Spiking Intelligence Lab ...

Restoring communication Jerry Tang and colleagues at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a language decoder that translates brain activity data from functional MRI scans into a continuous ...

The work relies in part on a transformer model, similar to the ones that power ChatGPT. Alex Huth (left), Shailee Jain (center) and Jerry Tang (right) prepare to collect brain activity data in the ...

Emotions are an important part of human intelligence. Identifying specific emotional categories from complex neural patterns, i.e., the neural decoding of emotional information, is a key issue in ...

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Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates is a documentary series that delves deep into Bill Gates’ personal life and work, exploring the behind-the-scenes actions behind his achievements. Season 1 ...