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Honest question,how does this make the lives of humans better?
by pa7ch 4y ago
Honest question,how does this make the lives of humans better?
- AndrewKemendo 4y agoWell, for example. Lets say that I have a goal BMI I want to maintain If I reach for the Oreos, I can choose to have a flag set with a heuritic I created myself that will tell me: "Having 5 oreos means you need to reduce other calorie intake by n calories to maintain your BMI" That data can also be aggregated to give me my macro/micros for everything I've eaten etc... without me having to log it like I do now Think about it as the ultimate personal assistant and all you need to do to instrument it is attaching a camera and mic to your face. You can decide what your goals are, and this kind of instrumentation will capture the data that you need without you having to actually annotate everything. Your personal life API
- azeirah 4y agoI'd just get really annoyed at that AI ...being annoyed increases stress, which increases appetite
- AndrewKemendo 4y agoOk, then have it do something else? The point here is, you could have it do anything you choose ...or just don't all together in which case, why comment?
- bick_nyers 4y agoI've been thinking about doing this for a while now, cameras all over the house hooked up to ML algorithms that help you audit and tweak your behavior towards some specified goal. When I used to play video games ultra competitively, I would analyze recordings of my gameplay to try and get better, and it worked wonders.
- ar_lan 4y agoI've honestly thought about recording my work sessions to do the same thing. RescueTime works _somewhat_ to track when I get distracted on something, but moreso I'm interested in identifying when I do something suboptimally and playing it back to identify why I went with that path and try to course-correct the next time around.
- bick_nyers 4y agoRecording the desktop 24/7 and making those videos searchable could be an incredible tool as well. Text on screen as well as audio from meetings. If you didn't document how you initially configured something, you could just go back and watch what you did. Edit: Another comment has informed me of rewind.ai, which does this on Mac, interesting!
- unbalancedevh 4y ago> all you need to do to instrument it is attaching a camera and mic to your face It's funny that this is a reasonable thing to say.
- AndrewKemendo 4y agoIt really is. I've been in CV since 2009 and it's face melting how many things we thought were impossible are effectively "solved."
- crtified 4y agoLikewise, if we go back to 1995, and tell a tech-fearing farmer that within 20 years he and all his salt-of-the-earth colleagues would soon be voluntarily (and gladly!) carrying in their back pocket (in the form of a cell phone) a small cheap generic device connected 24/7 to global corporate networks, with built-in high def cameras, microphones, location detectors, and data gatherers, and would casually store much of their personal and financial information within them. They would find that notion preposterous. But now, some short years later, they would give it barely a thought.
- mahathu 4y agoSounds like a nightmare!
- AndrewKemendo 4y agoPerhaps the BMI/Food tracking example isn't one that resonates with you Can you explain a bit more about what part of having a non-intermediated "personal API" (or whatever you'd call it) is nightmarish?
- redstonefreedom 4y agoI think the oreo thing is probably doable now with things like habitaware. It’s most likely a very easily distinguishable motor pattern. Not sure they could be programmed to give you an oreo-specific-reminder, but that’s a design gap more than it is a technological one.