Arnav Kapur
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Arnav Kapur is a computer scientist and engineer at MIT. He is known for his work and advocacy in developing AI systems that enhance and complement human abilities.
Career
In 2016, Kapur worked at the Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory at Harvard Medical School. While at Harvard, he showed that gene expression data in microarray and RNA-Seq experiments, could be considered approximately Flow-rank, which could then be used to reliably predict the data.[1][2]
After this, Kapur attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working at the MIT Media Lab.[3] While at MIT, he developed a peripheral neural interface, dubbed AlterEgo, that recorded neuromuscular signals, sent from the brain to the various muscles of the speech system through subtle and voluntary stimulation, and transcribed them in
to basic speech commands.[4][5] This created a silent speech interface, having applications in facilitating speech for individuals who had lost the ability to communicate verbally. [6][7] In 2018, Kapur in an interview with 60 Minutes, detailed the inner workings of the prototype and showcased a live demonstration. [8][9] In 2019, Kapur gave a talk at TED, and demonstrated an updated version of the system.[10] He talked about how ethics can inform design and engineering as a principle [11] [12] and advocated for technologies such as AI to be designed in a way that extended human capabilities. [13][14]
Kapur has also exhibited artwork and AI tools that collaborate with human artists.[15] His work has been exhibited at alt.ai New York, Design Museum, Art Center Nabi. [16] [17][18][19][20]
Awards
In 2020, Kapur featured on TIME magazine's 100 Best Inventions of 2020.[21] He has been awarded the Lemelson-MIT graduate prize. [22]
References
- ↑ Kapur, Arnav; Marwah, Kshitij; Alterovitz, Gil (2016-06-17). "Gene expression prediction using low-rank matrix completion". BMC Bioinformatics. 17 (1): 243. doi:10.1186/s12859-016-1106-6. ISSN 1471-2105. PMC 4912738. PMID 27317252.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link) - ↑ ESCALA, AGÊNCIA (2018-08-08). "A New Device Can Hear Your Thoughts". EscalaEsc. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ "Computer system transcribes words users "speak silently"". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2018-04-04. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ "Project Overview ‹ AlterEgo". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ Kapur, Arnav; Kapur, Shreyas; Maes, Pattie (2018-03-05). "AlterEgo: A Personalized Wearable Silent Speech Interface". 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. IUI '18. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 43–53. doi:10.1145/3172944.3172977. ISBN 978-1-4503-4945-1.
- ↑ Kapur, Arnav; Kapur, Shreyas; Maes, Pattie (2018-03-05). "AlterEgo". 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/3172944.3172977.
- ↑ "Project Overview ‹ AlterEgo". MIT Media Lab. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ "MIT Media Lab: Where tomorrow's technology is born -- "60 Minutes Overtime" - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ "MIT Media Lab: Making ideas into reality -- "60 Minutes" - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ Kapur, Arnav (2019-05-16), How AI could become an extension of your mind, retrieved 2023-07-24
- ↑ "An MIT researcher demonstrated how we can now search the internet through a wearable "sticker"". Quartz. 2019-04-23. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ "Log in to Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ Kapur, Arnav (2019-05-16), How AI could become an extension of your mind, retrieved 2023-07-23
- ↑ "An MIT researcher demonstrated how we can now search the internet through a wearable "sticker"". Quartz. 2019-04-23. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ "Will AI change the art world?". India Today. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ "@Bhanu0993". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ "alt-AI". genekogan.com. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ Tyka, Michael (2016-06-16). "Alt-AI". Artists + Machine Intelligence. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ "Assisted Visions". LISA KORI. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ drone.tv. "Tandem- Art with an AI | harshit". Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- ↑ "MIT Media Lab AlterEgo: The 100 Best Inventions of 2020". Time. 2020-11-19. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
- ↑ "Arnav Kapur | Lemelson". lemelson.mit.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
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