To get around AV1 hardware requirements, though, Google has quietly added a software-based AV1 decoder to the vast majority of Android devices. AV1 has been available for a few years now, ...

A team based in the University of Texas claim this decoder is able to generate “intelligible word sequences” from individuals as they listened to a story or silently imagined one.

The new AI-based decoder is a type of deep learning neural network. The researchers first trained it to recognize errors using their Sycamore computer, running with 49 qubits and a quantum simulator.