Dimitrios Adamos, co-founder & CTO of Cogitat, discusses with Alex Alexakis in Startup Pirate about:
- What are brain-computer interfaces?
- What is the difference between invasive and non-invasive technologies? Think Elon Musk’s Neuralink vs. Snap’s NextMind.
- Are there any transformational applications of brain-computer interfaces today?
- How far are we from wider adoption and what are the new paradigms that can unlock innovation?
Let’s get to it!
Patterns of brain activity are associated with different brain processes and can be used to identify different brain states and make behavioral predictions. However, the relevant features are not readily apparent and accessible. To mine informative latent representations from multichannel EEG recordings, we propose a novel differentiable EEG decoding pipeline consisting of learnable filters and a pre-determined feature extraction module. Read the rest of this entry…
A team of Greek scientists has discovered how to tell how much you like a particular song by literally reading your mind. And they want to fit it into Spotify, Apple Music, and other similar online music streaming services. No more stars. No more likes and dislikes. No more hearts. It will all happen automatically.
The full article by Quartz.com is available here
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the digital revolution has radically affected the music industry and is continuously reforming the business model of music economy. As of today, previously-established channels of music distribution have been replaced and new industry stakeholders have emerged. Among them, on-demand music recommendation and streaming services feature as the disruptive innovators of the new digital music ecosystem. Read the rest of this entry…