The team has trained the al on their own brains. As they listen to stories inside the scanner, the computer watches what happens. What sort of Brain Activity are you looking for . Were looking for Brain Activity thats related to specific ideas or specific words that appear in the stories. So, for example, whenever you hear somebody talk about parking a car, there are certain patterns of activity in the brain that will be present that reliably correspond to that kind of idea. And were trying to build up that mapping from this very large data set. The computer looks for patterns in the vast amounts of data from the scanner. With enough training, it can translate Brain Activity into words. So the lead scientist is listening to a story for us. The war of the worlds. The martians in the pit had turned the heat ray on. A deep, throbbing sound, a silver pencil of light. And a narrow ribbon of bracken and grass and trees and houses stretching as far as the eye could see, was scorched. And this
over the pennines, increasingly across the north of scotland over the hills, turning back to rain as the hills, turning back to rain as the milder air moves on. very blustery, gales in the southwest, surveyor tails inaughty scotland and northern ireland, heavy and persistent rain severe gales in north west scotland. double figures later in the day, increasing for the rest of the country, as the rain moves north. very wet and windy weather confined to the northern isles tonight. many places turning clearer with blustery showers, mostly in the north and west. a frost free night to come for most. i milder start to friday. some sunshine, plenty of showers, longer spells of rain in northern and western areas, fairly strong winds. south east england, faring best with drier and brighter weather. temperatures, double figure play mat in north london, much of england and wales. feeling noticeably milder double figures for northern ireland. sunday, another low, heavy rain and stro
stays unsettled. further bouts of rain moving on but it is not going to be a wash out. there will be some sunshine from time to time. but saturday morning starts off very wet. look at the bright colours, some quite intense rainfall initially. it does move through north eastwards fairly quickly so by the afternoon there will be some sunny spells, a couple of showers but england and wales. the rain spreading to central scotland. the sunshine in the south, temperatures 13, much milderthan sunshine in the south, temperatures 13, much milder than it has been i3, much milder than it has been recently. eight ninths further north. sunday, we do it all again, another area of low pressure moving in. with that the fronts and further outbreaks hello and welcome to sportsday this thursday night, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on the programme. chasing down the champions can tottenham move level on points with manchester city? west ham will be the team trying to stop them. new
South, ten or 11 degrees to end the day. Going through the night the showers in the north west begin to fade away. Looking down to the south west, low pressure bringing in some wet and weather and some gales on coast. A pretty unsettled start the day. A different story again further north, cold and frosty with some possible icy stretches on the roads. But for much of england and wales are roads. But for much of england and wales a re pretty roads. But for much of england and wales are pretty dismal Early Morning rush hour with some quite persistent rain. It stays quite persistent rain. It stays quite persistent across north wales and through northern england. Then heading over into the isle of man and northern ireland, some sleet or wet snow possible across the higher ground. A cold and frosty start across the far north east. An improving picture to england and wales with some sunny spells. The weather front grinds to a halt but again some wet snow to the higher ground. It is going to
Tweet about the size of his nuclear button. And joining me laterfor a look at tomorrows front pages will be the columnist, Susie Boniface and the political commentator, alex deane. Welcome to sportsday. Coming up tonight, we are at the emirates stadium ahead of a battle for the top four in the premier league at arsenal take on chelsea. West brom say their midfielderJake Livermore confronted a west ham fan because the supporter abused him about the death of his infant son in 2014. A little bit of history new zealands colin munro scores 104 to become the first batsman to make three centuries in t20 internationals as the black caps beat the west indies. I will have the build up to the fifth test in sydney. Can england finally get an ashes win . We start at the emirates where arsenal host chelsea. A win for the champions would see them go back to 2nd in the table. They face a side though whove won 13 of their last 15 league games at home. Before we go to our football correspondentjohn murr