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🤖 Morpheus-1 helps you have lucid dreams

Neuralink is not the only one who wants to play around with our brains. Prophetic, a trailblazing neurotech startup, is on a mission to hack our dreams with AI.

Enter Morpheus-1, Prophetic's brainchild (pun intended), poised to revolutionize our sleep. This isn't your typical AI; it's a dream weaver, a digital Morpheus named after the Greek god of dreams.

Morpheus-1 is a small AI model that takes brain activity as the prompt and generates shaped sound waves that can react with that brain state to craft and stabilize lucid dreams.

Lucid dreaming is like being the scriptwriter, director, and lead actor in your own dream. Think "Inception," but without the need for Leonardo DiCaprio to explain the plot. It's a state where you're aware you're dreaming and can manipulate the dream world.

Today you can only induce it by practicing or using weird techniques like waking up after four hours, intense focus, and then going back to sleep. Things only college kids have time for.

Morpheus-1 is here to solve this.

Prophetic is gearing up to drop The Halo – not a video game, but a headband that's straight out of a sci-fi novel. This gadget is the key to unlocking the Morpheus-1 experience, delivering ultrasound straight into your grey matter, stabilizing your dreams and turning them into an otherworldly, ultra-realistic open-world game.

The science of lucid dreaming isn't just a fad. Researchers have been diving deep into this realm, uncovering its potential to replicate real-life physical experiences, fight nightmares, and even help with depression and PTSD.

But it's not all dreamy; there's a fine line between exploring your inner universe and messing up your sleep schedule.

The real question is: Do we really want AI tinkering with our dreams? Prophetic is betting on a yes. They're dreaming big – envisioning a future where we could use the technology to help us not only dream but work, focus or feel good by reacting to and stimulating parts of our brain.

It's a bold, brain-bending venture. Some might find the idea of AI playing puppet master with their minds a little too "Black Mirror" for comfort. But if Prophetic pulls this off, we might be on the cusp of a new era in self-exploration and consciousness.

Whether you're ready to jump on board or prefer to watch from the sidelines, one thing's for sure: the line between reality and dreamscape is about to get a whole lot blurrier.

ONE MORE THING

GPT-4 is on par with doctors

New research shows that GPT-4 is just as good at suggesting treatment for stroke patients as doctors. GPT-4, which is a generalist AI model also beats smaller AIs that were specifically trained for medical applications. Seems like size matters most when it comes to AI.

⌚ If You Have One More Minute

• 💻 Meta released CodeLLama 70B - a new open-source coding model on par with GPT-4

• 🔍 Nous Research have put a new evaluation system for open source models on the blockchain

• 🌐 AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet

• 🇺🇸 AI companies will need to start reporting their safety tests to the US government

AI Art of the Day 🎨

Midjourney just dropped "Niji v6", its latest anime model. Twitter user @minchoi used it to reimagine famous art in "Naruto" anime style.

This one is the “Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Johannes Vermeer. You can check out the rest in his thread here.

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