In a video chat with The Hindu, Mr. Kapur admitted to being dismayed by some of the coverage. “An intelligence-augmentation device is a higher metaphor.When you say intelligence, it’s a lot of things: memory, decision-making, thinking. Deep learningCreating a device like AlterEgo requires more than casual knowledge of a variety of fields. Mr. Kapur mentions materials science research in progress, which could lead to a transparent device. “Yes, there is a different characterization of neuromuscular signals for each person, but we don’t know if these correlate with speech accents,” Mr Kapur says.

Source: The Hindu April 15, 2018 16:30 UTC