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people it's time to rise up and fuel our
minds I'm Coy wired this is CNN 10. it's
Thursday Happy Friday Eve can you
believe this is the penultimate show of
the year the second the last one before
CNN 10's summer break I'm gonna miss
y'all but I'm gonna keep posting food
for thought on my at koi wire Social
account stuff like hashtag random
thought Thursday now if you know the
answer to this one keep it to yourself
we'll reveal the answer at the end of
the show here we go there are 30 cows in
a field 28 chickens how many didn't hmm
think about it all right let's go here
we go starting today in the Pacific
Ocean in the U.S territory of Guam where
officials say they're experiencing the
worst storm in decades typhoon mawar has
been slamming the island with heavy rain
and strong winds reaching speeds
equivalent to those that a category 4
hurricane would bring that now did you
know that typhoons and hurricanes are
actually the same weather phenomenon the
difference is purely geographical
hurricanes are in the North Atlantic and
Northeast Pacific Oceans typhoons like
mawar well they're in the Northwest
Pacific these scenes from Guam are scary
the national weather service has warned
that the storm could bring 15 to 20
inches of torrential rain or more this
can result in landslides and flash
flooding throughout the island according
to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center
maximum sustained winds were up to 140
miles per hour with gusts up to 165.
it's like being subjected to
tornado-like wind speeds but for long
periods of time most of the island has
lost power but thankfully at the time of
this recording no deaths have been
reported to CNN President Joe Biden
approved an emergency declaration for
the island on Tuesday and FEMA the
Federal Emergency Management agency
announced it has more than 50 emergency
relief personnel and dozens of other
Federal Partners ready to provide
emergency assistance on the ground Guam
is home to about a hundred and fifty
thousand people including several U.S
military installations now while Guam
sits in the West Pacific Ocean an area
that's prone to the world's strongest
tropical Cyclones it's actually
extremely rare for the island to be
struck directly by a storm of this
strength only eight such storms like
this half passed over this 30 mile wide
island in the last 75 years
10 second trivia big fast what part of
the brain is most closely linked to
thinking and reasoning brain stem
cerebrum cerebellum or hypothalamus
if you're thinking cerebrum oh synapse I
think neuron to something cerebrum for
the win
neuroscientists at the University of
Texas say they figured out a way to read
minds by translating scans of brain
activity into actual words using the
very same artificial intelligence
technology that powers chat GPT now does
this mean that we could possibly
communicate with someone who's unable or
even unwilling Pop Quiz Hotshot how do
brains say hi
brain waves ardoni O'Sullivan has more
you're reading people's minds
so we don't like to use the term mind
reading these newer scientists at the
University of Texas and Austin say
they've made a major breakthrough
they've figured out how to translate
brain activity into words using
artificial intelligence these are
different images earlier this month they
published a paper explaining how they
had research volunteers listen to audio
clips while having their brain scanned
by an fmri machine over time AI
algorithms the very same Tech that's
behind chat gbt we're able to figure out
what the volunteers were listening to
just by watching their brains it is just
crazy you can watch how blood flows
through the brain and using Ai and gbt
and everything else translated into
words yeah it's
wild that this works when you put it
that way Thumbs Up Down Ace
to test it all out Professor Alexander
hoos and I had our brain scanned while
listening to parts of the Wizard of Oz
audiobook I Only Had a Brain hi Danny we
have a picture of your brain
yep it looks good I was kind first
followed by Professor hoose capturing
images of the changes in our brain's
blood flow as we listened to the words
from the audiobook and showing how our
brains interpret those words when she
had finished her meal and was about to
go back to the road of yellow brick she
was startled to hear a deep grow nearby
you can see that they're getting
recordings every two seconds while he's
listening to a story we will feed this
data through our decoder and try to
predict the story that he's currently
listening to the next morning the
results were in okay so it's been 24
hours since we got our brain scanned
you can confirm I have a brain
absolutely Brilliance so we were able to
decode some stuff from my brain not so
much from yours so uh this is one from
my brain this is from The Wizard of Oz
so on the left side is the actual words
that uh I heard when she had finished
her meal and was about to go back to the
road of yellow brick she was startled to
hear a deep grown nearby
and the decoded version of this is on
the right it's I was about to head back
to school and I hear this strange voice
calling out to me so it gets some things
right so this like was about to go back
was about to head back it completely
misses some things like the road of
yellow brick versus school but then it
gets this uh this nice kind of example
so she hears something and then instead
of a deep groan nearby it's had a
strange voice calling out to me it means
something related even if it's not
exactly the right words still pretty
incredible to think that was about to
head back as something that just by
scanning your brain yeah I think that's
one of the things that's really
surprising to us about this it can get
things like that you can get these
entire phrases of exact words now so we
expected mine not to be Grace because we
haven't trained the model on you the
reason it wasn't able to decode my brain
was because the technology currently
needs people to sit in the fmri machine
for more than 16 hours so the AI models
can train on specific people's brains
are we gonna live in a world where you
know I can walk by somebody on the
street and they'll be able to hold
something up to my head and they'll know
what I'm thinking currently we're very
far from that that might also never be
possible we can't completely rule it out
but as far as we know that certainly
won't be possible in the next few
decades the real potential application
of this is actually helping people who
are unable to speak without them needing
to
get neurosurgery now we have this like
snapshot of the brain and Jerry Chang
explained how they used open ai's GPT
large language model to help decode the
brain the GPT model is made up of
millions of pages of text from the
internet that the AI trains on and
learns how sentences are constructed and
how people talk and think gbt basically
made our predictions a lot better but it
doesn't just work listening to audio
Professor who showed us what happened
when he watched a movie with no sound
while his brain was scanned watch as the
technology is able to decode what his
eyes are seeing she then took my hand
and held it to her lips
she kissed it I smiled oh my God me in
for a hug
I got her back for about hours I had to
stop the bleeding and gave her my shirt
to put over it
it's pretty good I don't know it's like
there's a description of what was
happening here wow should we be scared
by the work people like you were doing
we think it's really important to
continually evaluate the implications of
brain decoding and also to start
thinking about enactment policies that
protect mental privacy and regulate what
brain data can be used for mental
privacy a rather a dystopian term but
ones that we're going to be getting more
used to as we enter this age of
artificial intelligence back to you
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all of our band members and musicians
out there imagine you're practicing
you're playing with your crew and all of
a sudden a music Superstar crashes your
jam session and starts jamming with you
well Ed Sheeran you get today's 10 out
of 10 for making a Florida high schools
band practice Unforgettable and then
giving even more of a surprise I thought
I come and play some songs here I will
take books and guitarists to give to you
guys for the music department
I'm playing the soda Stadium tomorrow
but I've got tickets for all of you guys
to come
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Sheeran sang his hit song called perfect
and it was perfect some students tearing
up it was so beautiful oh it took photos
and even signed some instruments
he performed a duet with one of the
students too
and how about the sweet note he left
love you guys
that's sweet and love to you too and
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Washington and Mr Heyman happy birthday
to you and now for that random thought
Thursday there are 30 cows in a field 28
chickens how many didn't well if you
know the answer shout it out go ahead
answer is 10. 30 cows 28 chickens that
means ten didn't it's mathematical and
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