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Brain activity of people listening to Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick in the Wall' was used to reconstruct the classic rock number, scientists report in a new study. The reconstruction reveals that brain waves can be recorded and processed to bring out musical elements of the speech heard, such as rhythm, stress, accent and intonation, along with the syllables, the study from the University of California (UC), Berkeley, US, said. These musical elements are known to convey meaning in ways that spoken words alone do not. The phrase «All in all it was just a brick in the wall» could be recognised in the reproduced song, with its rhythms intact and the words muddy yet decipherable, the researchers report in the study published in the journal PLoS Biology. The listeners were 29 patients undergoing epilepsy surgery at Albany Medical Center, New York, US, over a decade ago. Neuroscientists at the centre recorded electrical activity through electrodes placed on the patients' brains as they heard an approximately 3-minute segment of the classic Pink Floyd song from the 1979 album The Wall. «As this whole field of brain machine interfaces progresses, this gives you a way to add musicality to future brain implants for people who need it, someone who's got some disabling neurological or developmental disorder compromising speech output.

currency exports. It has also said that Russia has received $2.3 billion worth of dollar and euro notes since March 2022, after its army crossed the border and entered Ukraine.

Scarlett Johansson alleged that OpenAI copied her voice for ChatGPT's ‘Sky’ system. Reacting to the allegations, the Sam Altman-led company has taken down the ChatGPT voice in question while also stating that Sky system's voice is not an imitation of Johansson but belongs to a different professional actress.Johansson stated that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had first approached her in September 2023 for being the voice of ChatGPT.

University officials and a relativfe say the son of a former YouTube executive died last week at the UC Berkeley campus where he resided

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, has passed away. According to a report by PEOPLE, the Berkeley Fire Department notified campus police that they were administering life-saving measures on Troper, who was found unresponsive at UC Berkeley's Clark Kerr Campus dormitory on Tuesday afternoon. The report noted that despite efforts by the fire department, Troper was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.