Tom's AI Jam Buddy Idea

I’ve got a thing I’m working on now I’m excited about

I’m building a loop (music) pedal in a language called pure data to be eventually installed in a rasberry pi and made into a real boy

I’m using the array Kurswell invention system

Which is based on two premises: 1) there are no original or unique ideas, just simple ideas that haven’t occurred to everybody yet because the tech is not there and 2) you can easily predict approximately how fields will advance and at one point they will converge with other fields to produce new fields

So all you have to do to invent something is take low hanging fruit from inevitable field convergences and then ... wait

My invention takes samples of music you are either listening to or playing along with a sample of your brain wave patterns at the time and trends in your brain waves — and uses a combo of brain wave feedback, ie magnetic stimulation, as well as playing back bits of music using things the system has learned about music structure that you like and or your playing style. The result is to emphasize certain brain wave states ie enhance meditation as well as produce and / or resample music you like and / or work as a musical instrument or artificial intelligence playing music with you. 

I’ve invented this off machine that doesn’t exist but I think there will be tons of products like this and that their creation is basically inevitable. 

All of the little projects I do with music are to help me understand musical structure better, understand how sound works, understand how electricity works and processes sound, and understand how people react to and process music. 

Brain scanners / stimulates  are commercially available now (like muse) and are two or three generations away (five years or so) from being able to read / write what I need for about $200. 

The AI is there for music now and is simple and relatively accessible.

You train it like a dog - by liking or not liking things it does

So the inspiration for this is that music is too hard to make. And the barrier between the person and the music should go - no more instruments, no more theory. Music should be like part of your body — you think and you make music, you squeeze a muscle and you change it.

Feel free to make your response a blog post

-Tom

Let me repeat this idea back to make sure I understand it- You play or listen to some music, and this device reads your brainwaves to see what parts of it you like, and it builds on those. And then it keeps reading your brainwaves and keeps adjusting/adding/subtracting parts of the song in response to what you like/want?

I like the idea of converting someone's moment to moment stream of consciousness into music. Honestly, if you can complete this thing and it runs the way I'm imagining, you would become very rich.

What I'm curious about at the moment is what you still need to do this. Brain scanners exist, but they aren't ready for this yet? What do they lack that you need? Also, what's this about the scanner writing/stimulating? That actually sounds a little scary and now I want to know about that.

Tom, I like this bullshit idea. I see why you are so excited about it- this idea is right at the corner of crazy science fiction and actually doable, and that's rad.

-James