this product is interesting for a few...

this product is interesting for a few reasons:

https://www.starkey.com/press/press-releases/2023/03/all-new-genesis-ai-hearing-aids-awarded-for-groundbreaking-innovation





https://hearingreview.com/hearing-products/starkeys-genesis-ai-the-brain-mimicking-hearing-aid

specifically, it appears to be "neuromorphic":

“The brain is an amazing computational system. In fact, the most amazing computational system that we know of. At its core, you have a network of neurons that are heavily interconnected and then learn from the information that is thrown at it”, explained Bhowmik. “When a kid is learning to recognize language, they’re basically training that neural network.

Copying a page from biology, the technology equivalent of that is a deep neural network built into the device. Well, there are two ways of doing that. One, you could just build it in a software, which is what most people have done so far.

With Genesis AI, it was an opportunity for us to go one step further and build a hardware architecture where neurons are interconnected in a block on the chip itself”.



https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/5a7jgg/Starkey_Genesis_AI_Transcript_axcv4.pdf


it also apparently features what appears to be "learning on device, eg. adaptability:


"What these devices do with AI and deep neural network is, it instantly analyzes whatever challenging environments that are going to work through their day-to-day lives is going to make, guess this, 80 million automatic adjustments every hour. That's 22,000 a second. In fact, that's almost two billion per day."

"These devices are the very personal brain assistant. The AI engine in there is constantly working, constantly analyzing, making two billion analysis and adjustments every day without you even knowing about it"



also the extremely low power requirements seems interesting:


"We defied gravity in engineering terms because not only we have this orders of magnitude, higher computation performance, we have doubled the battery life on a single charge"



Thoughts?