AI now is very smart. It can write an article, create a piece of art, etc. And, it can even read your mind and translate it into text. A new AI tool was developed by a team of scientists in America.

The tool has two main parts, a scanner (扫描仪) and an AI system (系统) called GPT-1. The scanner can record people’s brain activity. And GPT-1 works just like Chat GPT and other similar AI systems.

Three volunteers took part in the team’s study. Each person spent sixteen hours listening to stories. The people imagined the stories as they heard them. And the scanner recorded their brain activity.

These recordings and the text of the stories were fed into GPT-1. It then made connections between them.

Then came the test: The scientists let the volunteers listen to some new stories. This time, GPT-1 was given only their brain activity recordings. The AI system then wrote out the stories according to the recordings. The results were very similar to the correct answers. The words weren’t exactly the same. But they often carried the same meaning.

The scientists say that GPT-1 is the first AI system to turn people’s thoughts into words. Some people have lost the ability to speak because of accidents or illnesses. In the future, this technology could be useful to them.

In 2017, when the high speed train, Fuxing, left Beijing for Shanghai at a speed of 350 km/h, it amazed the world. It was China’s newest high-speed train and also the fastest train in the world. There had been 2,959 high-speed trains running across China by 2016. They made up 60 percent of the world’s total high-speed trains. Chinese companies have also built more than 10 high-speed railways in Europe, Southeast Asia and South America. The high-speed train has become a new name card for China.

Besides the high-speed trains, many other innovations (创新) have also changed people’s lives in China. For example, though bike sharing is not new itself, China has made it much more convenient and popular. When the Chinese bike sharing companies reached Singapore and Britain, users there were excited and posted photos of themselves riding the bikes on social media.

Cashless payment has become a lifestyle choice in China. It is common that people in China go shopping with no cash in pockets. Many people just pay with their mobile phones by scanning a quick response code (QR，二维码) from the seller. Even a person selling vegetables has a QR code. Many foreigners have experienced lives without carrying any cash in China. They say they can’t do it when they are back home in Europe.

China is now in a great time. It has made great achievements in innovation. They are true pictures of national strength. It seems that China is really leading in some ways. And Chinese people have every reason to believe in an even brighter future.