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🧠 AI Helps Stroke Survivor Uses Brain Signals to Communicate
🎨 Wand.app Raises $4.2M to Empower Artists with AI Tools
Jaeden Schafer
August 25, 2023
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🧠 AI Helps Stroke Survivor Uses Brain Signals to Communicate
🔬 Twilio Expands CustomerAI Tools
🎨 Wand.app Raises $4.2M to Empower Artists with AI Tools
🧠 AI Helps Stroke Survivor Uses Brain Signals to Communicate
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley have developed an experimental technology that translates brain signals into audible words, allowing stroke survivors to communicate through digital avatars.
The technology uses an implant with 253 electrodes placed on the surface of the brain to intercept signals and artificial intelligence algorithms to translate them into sentences spoken by a digitally animated figure.
The system has a relatively high accuracy and speed, enabling users to communicate using a wide vocabulary.
This is unbelievable 😱
AI Gave a Paralyzed Woman Her Voice Back.
Brain implant and digital avatar allow stroke survivor to speak with facial expressions for the first time in 18 years.
Implant Features:
→ Converts brain signals to text
→ Speed: Nearly 80 words per minute… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…— Alamin (@iam_chonchol)
5:30 AM • Aug 25, 2023
🔬 Twilio Expands CustomerAI Tools
Twilio is announcing the expansion of its customer AI tools, called CustomerAI, at its annual Signal conference.
The company is adding new features such as voice intelligence, predictive analytics, and generative journeys for marketing campaigns.
Twilio is also partnering with Databricks to improve data organization and sharing through the use of data lakehouse technologies.
Twilio expands CustomerAI capabilities with generative and predictive AI venturebeat.com/ai/twilio-expa…
— VentureBeat (@VentureBeat)
4:00 PM • Aug 23, 2023
🎨 Wand.app Raises $4.2M to Empower Artists with AI Tools
Wand.app, an AI-powered creative tool that allows artists to customize and visualize their ideas, has secured $4.2 million in seed funding led by O’Shaughnessy Ventures.
Unlike other AI tools, Wand aims to bridge the gap between artists and AI-generated content by offering visual tools and personalization options.
The platform, currently being tested with beta users, plans to launch publicly in the near future and is focused on catering to professionals and hobbyists in the art and design industry.
Wand.app raises $4.2M to scale its AI-powered creative tool for artists by @AiishaMalik1
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch)
1:00 PM • Aug 23, 2023
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