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> In explaining possible use cases of facial recognition, Bosworth said that Facebook’s smart glasses may help someone recognize someone at a dinner party What
by orange_tee 6y ago
> In explaining possible use cases of facial recognition, Bosworth said that Facebook’s smart glasses may help someone recognize someone at a dinner party
What a fucking joke. There is clearly no practical upside to this for the wearer, or the rest of society.
- Bancakes 6y agoJust another argument for how most problems have been solved and everyday technology has been feature-complete for years.
- orange_tee 6y agoSince when do you first get people to buy and use your device and only later tell them how the device could become useful in some form or another? It's a joke that they are trying to push this for self serving reasons, but cannot even come up with one good reason for people to wear them.
- mettamage 6y ago> What a fucking joke. There is clearly no practical upside to this for the wearer, or the rest of society. Yea, not for the average person. The most creative thing I could come up with was to play a game with your eyes closed and then let your glasses tell you who's who. So, not really worthwhile. But then I thought, what if you're an old person that has issues with recognizing people. I think some of them could benefit from it. It points to a theme which is: AI could help certain senior citizens to augment their cognition, and recognizing someone via glasses is a small example of that.
- orange_tee 6y agoObviously they want to make everyone wear their monitoring cameras though. They could have created and marketed a device only for people who need it, and nobody would have complained if they had done that.
- Toutouxc 6y agoI can see people suffering from memory loss or weak eyesight benefiting from such technology, but of course that's not what Facebook has in mind.