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Myndplay

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MyndPlay EEG Brainwave headset offers access to an interactive mind-controlled video platform that allows users to interact with video games, apps, and movies with their minds. MyndPlay has a number of simple games that can keep you entertained while you work on your focus and relaxation.

Dreem

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From sleep screening, to diagnosis, treatment and ongoing care — we are the first to provide comprehensive care all under one roof. Our affiliated network unites the best sleep specialists in the field: licensed physicians, nurse practitioners and care coordinators dedicated to helping individuals improve not just their sleep, but their overall health.

The Battle for Your Brain: A Virtual Conversation with Duke Law’s Nita Farahany

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YouTube Indy Channel Video - Science Writers NYC
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Nita A. Farahany, the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke Law School, talks with SWINY co-chair David Levine about her new book, The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology (March 14, St. Martin’s Press). One of the world’s foremost experts on the ethics of neuroscience, Professor Farahany offers a p…

Muse

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Muse is a smart headband that acts as your personal meditation coach. Its advanced sensors can detect when your mind wanders and give you gentle audio cues to bring your focus back to the present. With Muse, meditation really is as simple as 1, 2, 3.

Mendi

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Human health is at the heart of everything we do. By providing cutting-edge brain health technology for home use, we help people like you measure, control, train, and improve brain function. The headband is used to measure your brain activity in the prefrontal cortex. It automatically connects to Mendi's app.

Sense AI

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Beyond Meditation: The benefits of meditation are well documented. But meditation can be difficult and it can be hard to know if it is yielding results. Neurofeedback can accelerate the benefits of meditation. Sens.ai brings the best of consumer ease of use and clinically-evidenced programs across the full spectrum of brainwaves. Gamma states provide clarity to connect the disconnected a…

The professor trying to protect our private thoughts from technology

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Article (Media) - The Guardian
Prof Nita Farahany argues in her new book, The Battle for Your Brain, that intrusions into the mind are so close that lawmakers should enact protections now.

The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

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Other / Misc - Nita Farahany
This book is an early warning and a call for immediate attention to put human rights legislation in place regarding neurotechnology and neural data collecting devices to protect everyone from both privacy invasion and its manipulative capabilities when coupled with AI. Professor Nita Farahany argues that intrusions into the mind are so close that lawmakers should enact protections now.

The AI Dilemma

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YouTube Indy Channel Video - Center for Humane Technology
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Creators of the netflix special - "The Social Dilemma" - Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss how existing A.I. capabilities already pose catastrophic risks to a functional society, how A.I. companies are caught in a race to deploy as quickly as possible without adequate safety measures, and what it would mean to upgrade our institutions to a post-A.I. world

AI vs. Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning vs. Neural Networks: What’s the Difference?

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Article (Corporate) - IBM
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AI
These technologies are commonly associated with artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks, and while they do all play a role, these terms tend to be used interchangeably in conversation, leading to some confusion around the nuances between them. Hopefully, we can use this blog post to clarify some of the ambiguity here.