A white device called AlterEgo, wearable on the head, helps “read” people. It uses four electrodes applied to the skin.The devices reas the inner voice of someone with AI mechanisms, even when they are not speaking. When a person talks to themselves, the electrodes can pick up the faint neuromuscular signals generated in the face and jaw.
Every word can be mapped to a unique pattern of neuromuscular signals, which the device is then able to process using AI mechanisms. The input then transmits to a computer, then converted into phrases. People are able to have a dialogue with the myoelectric prosthetic device, since it can answer questions asked by someone from within. However, it is still in need of improvements.
Researchers explain
In the future, people could google search with their thoughts. They would be able to ask questions and expect answers in their minds. Another giant leap marks towards a world where humans will be interacting with machines with just their thoughts. As lead researcher Arnav Kapoor of MIT’s Media Lab said, “our idea was: can we have a computational platform that is more internal, that mixes the human and the machine in some way, and that feels like an internal extension of our own cognition?”
AlterEgo was first presented at the Tokyo AI conference where researchers talked about how it would work. So far, as tests with ten volunteers, who were asked to say sentences of up to twenty words and numbers in their minds, have shown, the device has an average accuracy of 92%. This percentage will continue to increase in the future.
The issue is that users will have to wear a device on their head. This may stop the device from being popular.
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Author: PC-GR
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