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A friend of mine from engineering school had pretty much this exact idea for a joke record player: Require the user to provide a record and place the needle on
by dejawu 5y ago
A friend of mine from engineering school had pretty much this exact idea for a joke record player: Require the user to provide a record and place the needle on it, but then use image-recognition to identify the label/cover art and stream the album while the record spun uselessly.
Seeing someone do this, but unironically and for a real product specifically meant for humans who are actively developing their sense of how the world around the works, feels somewhere between cynical and outright deceptive. It reminds me of the Mechanical Turk (the original one, not the Amazon service): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk - a machine deliberately designed to mislead.
- mikepurvis 5y agoCan't seem to find it now, but a while ago there was an art project posted on here that was basically a mock tourist camera where it would use the GPS and IMU to infer your subject, and combine that with time of day info to grab you a top-rated picture off Instagram instead of whatever lousy one you were trying to take yourself. And here's the inverse of that— a camera that blocks you from taking photos too many other people have taken: https://philippschmitt.com/archive/2018/work/camera-restricta.html https://philippschmitt.com/archive/2018/work/camera-restrict...