(CNET) – Scientists used a brain implant and generative AI to give a woman her voice back and help her talk in near real time.

It’s one example of how generative AI tools — using the same underlying technology that powers chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude or transcriptions in Google Meet — are helping medical and scientific researchers solve problems that might have taken much longer to solve, Cho told me. AI experts and backers have pointed to the technology’s use in medicine as an area with huge upside, whether in devising novel drugs or providing better testing and diagnosis. (Read More)