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Sep 2023
30m 6s

Computers are learning to read our minds

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Gašper’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.” One thing that surprised him about generative adversarial networks (GANs)? How innovative they are, capable of generating English words they ... Show More
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