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Lucid dreaming headband that reads brain signals

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Ate A Pi
January 26, 2024

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Prophetic AI is nearing launch of its lucid dreaming headband and is looking for beta test volunteers.

What is it really?

  • Its a headband

  • It reads brain signals using an electroencephalogram (EEG)

  • The EEG image is fed into an AI model. That model then generates an image of a pattern of sound waves that the model predicts will put your mind in an altered state

  • The headband generates those sound waves (transcranial-focused ultrasound)

  • You get altered

EEG reading on left, AI model proposed ultrasound stimulation pattern on the right

While it all sounds very woo, it seems like the technology and the science are actually reaching maturity right now, with a combination of:

  • EEG miniaturization

  • ultrasound transducer miniaturization and resolution

  • EEG and fMRI data availability

  • transformer AI models

  • lucid dreaming entering the fringe of the mainstream

Earlier generations of ultrasound stimulation, which used hammer size low resolution stimulation defined by regression models, achieved impressive if inconsistent results:

Neurosurgeon pioneers Alzheimer's, addiction treatments using ultrasound | 60 Minutes

American neurosurgeon Ali Rezai is pioneering ways to try to help people with drug addiction and with Alzheimer's disease. One experiment focuses beams of ultrasound on the brain.

And lucid dreaming, of course, is only the first of many states of consciousness we might be interested in inducing. Prophetic is currently only using a 100 million parameter AI model it compares to GPT-1… so you have to wonder what happens in 5 years when they get to a trillion parameter model.

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