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Companies are using wearable neurotech to train AI models of the brain, often without telling users (www.science.org)
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Muse headbands and other sleep tracking devices that monitor your sleep state may be training new AI models of the brain. While not at the level of being able to interpret (or even really monitor) brainwave activity, Interaxon, the company behind Muse, has trained its model on about 50,000 hours of electroencephalography (EEG) data from users of the technology, with a goal of better understanding how the brain works while asleep.

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[–] anthk@tardigram.com 1 points 40 minutes ago

The infamous paper "The Rhythms of the Brain" it's basically "Neuroscience 101" for everyone. And almost 20 years have passed...

[–] chillxjr@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago

you all laughed when they were distilling from the big corpos

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 8 points 4 hours ago

Bummer, I was thinking of playing with their headband because it seemed to have nice APIs. Never mind, not gonna opt my brainwave data into your training set.