GoanTimes February 1, 2019 Issue

04 Technology
Friday, February 01, 2019 | www.goantimes.titosgoa.com | 12 Pages
Scientists are using
AI technology to
translate thoughts
into speech
Scientists are now using artificial
intelligence to help people who cannot speak.
Researchers at Columbia University's
Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain
Behavior Institute are creating bots to
translate brain signals into speech, per
a study published in Scientific Reports.
The researchers hope the AI
technology can help people with speech
disabilities, like someone recovering
from a stroke, or someone with epilepsy
or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a
motor neuron disease that most notably
affected the late Stephen Hawking.
Researchers are using a vocoder, a
synthesizer that decodes speech after
learning and listening to the speech
patterns of humans, writes Gizmodo.
Popular voice command systems
like Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa
also use this technology, says Nima
Mesgarani, the paper's senior author.
While the technology can't translate all
of a person's imagined thoughts, it can
translate patterns in brain signals to
reconstruct words, rather than having
a person select pre-programmed words
from a system, as Hawking did.
"Our voices help connect us to our
friends, family and the world around
us, which is why losing the power of
one's voice due to injury or disease is so
devastating," said Mesgarani. "we have a
potential way to restore that power. We've
shown that, with the right technology,
these people's thoughts could be decoded
and understood by any listener."
In the study, patients listened to a
person reading numbers 0-9 while
researchers scanned their brains and
the AI decoded it into speech. The AI
software correctly picked up at least 75
percent of the patient's language.
NASA is preparing to test an
asteroid defense system
An important test for the future of humanity
Why it matters: There’s no shortage
of Hollywood movies depicting the
imminent doom of the human race
thanks to a rogue asteroid on a collision
course with Earth. It’s a scenario that
makes for great onscreen entertainment
but one that’s also a very real threat.
Eventually, it’s going to happen (again)
and just like in the movies, we want to
have some sort of defense in place.
It’s why scientists at NASA are
planning to launch the Double Asteroid
Redirection Test (DART), a space probe
expected to launch in 2020 with the goal
of slamming into an asteroid. The hope
Samsung develops
the first 1TB storage
chip for phones
In the future, Samsung's phones will
have a whopping one terabyte storage
capacity... and that time might come
sooner than you expect. The tech giant
has started mass producing what it
says is the industry's first one terabyte
embedded Universal Flash Storage
(eUFS) technology for smartphones. It
will give the company's mobile devices
PC-like storage without the need for
large-capacity micoSD cards. It'll be
is that the impact will be able to alter
the asteroid’s orbit.
Given the vast expanse of space, even a
tiny alteration in an asteroid’s projected
path could be enough to cause it to miss
Earth and potentially save humanity
over the course of millions of miles.
NASA’s target with DART is
Didymos, a binary asteroid system
orbited by a smaller satellite roughly
490 feet in diameter. The probe will
crash into this smaller asteroid.
Neither are on a path for Earth and
there’s no possibility of an impact
causing danger to us.
Mark Fittock, a Monash University
alum that worked on NASA’s InSight
lander, told The Sydney Morning Herald
that if they’re smart about what they
hit the asteroid with, they could use
something smaller but to better effect.
“If this was really happening and
we had to stop it, we don’t know much
about our options at the moment – we
know we could hit something, but we
don’t know what to hit it with,” he said.
incredibly useful if you use your phone
to take tons of photos and HD videos
-- Samsung says it's enough to store 260
10-minute videos in 4K UHD.
The new eUFS was also designed to
be faster than typical SSDs, microSDs.
It has a 1,000-megabyte-per-second
sequential read speed, twice that of the
usual SSD and faster than its 512GB
predecessor.
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