{"id":17366,"date":"2025-07-23T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/17366\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T07:25:10","slug":"a-thinking-cap-this-ai-powered-cap-can-transform-thoughts-into-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/17366\/","title":{"rendered":"A thinking cap? This AI-powered cap can transform thoughts into text"},"content":{"rendered":"

By&nbspRoselyne Min<\/a>&nbspwith&nbspAP\/AuBC<\/p>\n

\n Published on
\n 22\/07\/2025 – 7:50 GMT+2\n <\/p>\n

\"\"
\n ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n

Imagine texting your friends and family by controlling your phone with just your thoughts. This idea was once the stuff of science fiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today, the idea of connecting the human brain to computers is moving closer to becoming a reality thanks to the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n

So far, technologies that allow transforming thoughts into text have often required a brain implant.<\/p>\n

Now, scientists at the University of Technology Sydney are using a cap-like device to explore how AI can interpret brain activity.<\/p>\n

The AI-powered cap monitors the brainwave patterns of a person wearing it and converts their thoughts into written language.<\/p>\n

The team behind the decoder says the system relies on two distinct types of AI to interpret brainwave signals.<\/p>\n

“At first, we use the deep learning model to translate the brain signals into the intended words,”\u00a0 Chin-Teng Lin, a researcher at the University of Technology Sydney, said.<\/p>\n

“And then, we use the large language model to make the match of the decoded words and make up for the errors in EEG decoding,” he added.<\/p>\n

The results are close, but not flawless, with about 75 per cent accuracy. The team says it is working toward a goal of 90 per cent accuracy.<\/p>\n

Could help stroke patients<\/p>\n

Other language decoding systems in development, so far, have required subjects to have surgical implants, or go throughfunctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning.<\/p>\n

In 2023, a study about a stroke patient being able to communicate again<\/a> thanks to a brain-computer interface and an AI voice generator made headlines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last year, Elon Musk\u2019s brain chip Neuralink<\/a> was first implanted in a human skull<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Specialists say it could play a role in helping stroke patients recover.<\/p>\n

“As scientists, we look at a medical condition and we look at what function has been affected by that medical condition. What is the need of the patient?\u201d Mohit Shivdasani, a researcher at the University of NSW bioelectronics, said.<\/p>\n

“We then address that unmet need through technology to restore that function back to what it was. After that, the sky’s the limit,” Shivdasani added.<\/p>\n

For more on this story, watch the video in the media player above.<\/p>\n

Video editor \u2022 Roselyne Min<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&nbspRoselyne Min&nbspwith&nbspAP\/AuBC Published on 22\/07\/2025 – 7:50 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT Imagine texting your friends and family by controlling your…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,7341,6378,367,11361,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-17366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-brain","tag-computers","tag-neuroscience","tag-patient","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}