A new artificial intelligence system called a semantic decoder can translate a person’s brain activity — while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story — into a continuous stream of ...

The decoder captured the gist of the scene. Jerry Tang and Alexander Huth, Blender Foundation The result suggests that the A.I. decoder was capturing not just words but also meaning.

By scanning blobs of brain activity, scientists may be able to decode people's thoughts, their dreams and even their intentions.

An encoder is a device which transforms the data into some bits known only to it and the decoder is a device which transforms those coded bits to generate the original data again.