What if you could think of something you want to learn about on the internet and get your answers without doing anything else? AlterEgo is a groundbreaking innovation that allows you to do just that by reading your brain signals.
An MIT student developed a wearable device that can allow its users to search the internet with just their minds. It has sensors that read signals from the brain, process that information with AI, and give feedback with audio via bone conduction. It is considerably like talking to yourself and having the internet in your head.
In the world that we live in now, where people are worried about AI replacing them, the best and most powerful thing we can get out of AI is an augmentation of our creativity and intuitive thinking with the processing power and storage capacity of computers. And this wearable technology points us in that direction.
When we speak, our brain sends signals to our internal speech systems to produce speech. When we say things to ourselves, our brains still send signals to these speech systems, but very weak and subtle ones. What AlterEgo does is read those particular signals and process them to figure out what the user is trying to say (in their mind).
For example, one could ask about the weather in a city, ask for the time in that moment, or try to solve a math problem with AlterEgo by just articulating the words in their mind, and it would provide the answer by sending audio responses through bone conduction to the users ears—how only they would be able to hear. It's like carrying the internet in one's head.
It may seem uncanny to have a device that reads and records one's thoughts, but AlterEgo is designed to not do that and only be active when the user wants it to. It only records deliberate engagement of your internal speech systems; that is, the user has total control over it.
Its design isn't exactly something anyone would like to carry on their face, so Arnav Kapur, the MIT student and creator of AlterEgo, has plans on making it something "invisible"—something that would be present but unnoticable.
With further advancements and the deployment of this technology, we may very well have a future where we can communicate via the internet from devices at our discretion and without compromising one's privacy.
One very crucial area where this technology can be applied is in the health of people who have speech impediment problems. There could be a possibility of people communicating with their thoughts rather than their actual vocals.
With AlterEgo, humans can augment themselves with AI, become higher versions of themselves, and achieve 10x their outcomes. I wonder what you think about this piece of technology. Would you give it a try or incorporate it into your daily lives to do fascinating things?
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