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It would be cool to: 1) Make a Meta Smart Glasses take a photo every 2 seconds. 2) Send images to some server in the cloud. 3) Run OCR and object detection/l
by hu3 3y ago
It would be cool to:
1) Make a Meta Smart Glasses take a photo every 2 seconds.
2) Send images to some server in the cloud.
3) Run OCR and object detection/labeling on these images.
4) Then present an app that allows searching (and chatting with) your past.
I could then ask the LLM things like:
1) Where did I left my wallet?
2) Did I get my credit card back after paying the restaurant yesterday? (ADHD things, don't ask)
3) What was written in my daughter's new tshirt today?
Bonus point if the app also records and transcribes audio so you could ask the LLM things like:
1) In the last meeting, what was the deadline that we settled on?
2) What was the phone number of that person I met in the park earlier today?
3) What was the name of the investor I met today?
Bonus bonus point if it has access to your phone calls to so it can transcribe and index what others said.
See Black Mirror episode "The Entire History of You":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You
- namanyayg 3y agoThat is exactly what the (highly criticised) Humane AI Pin does
- dbish 3y agoIt really doesn’t. It has no history or proactive understanding, it only runs a query when you ask it
- bee_rider 3y agoGenerally Black Mirror episodes are not intended to be aspirational.
- scotty79 3y agoI'm not abandoning my long standing aspiration just because Black Mirror told a scary story involving it in some manner.
- drdaeman 3y agoBlack Mirror is fiction, a lot of it works well thanks to our suspension of disbelief. Remove cloud from the equation, replacing it with a properly safeguarded fully owned hardware located on your own premises - basically make it privacy-respecting, minimizing abuse potential, do a proper audit, and it becomes a super desirable system for people with neurological differences (or just stressed folks - attention and memory suffer under the stress too), a glasses that enhance memory rather than vision. Sure, not without caveats and gotchas (don’t bring it to a poker night lol), but not that cyberpunky-bad either.
- Cyph0n 3y agoHave you watched the Black Mirror episode in question (S1E3)? Because the point of it was the tech itself and had nothing to do with sharing or the cloud.
- novok 3y agoIMO that is a more fundamental argument about removing information from the anxious and jealous who cannot handle the truth. Similar to medical paternalism where the doctor has to decide which test results to tell patients about. Which I understand, but can also be used to go full ham into china style totalitarian censorship regime for the 'peoples own good'. Also you might not realize how much the hard of hearing, deaf, and other neurodiverse ADHD types would find a memory prosthetic like that very useful unless you are in their very own shoes, for possibly years.
- somenameforme 3y agoAn extremely similar take on this, that predates Black Mirror, was in some sci-fi media whose name, appropriately enough, currently escapes me. Their premise is that there was a species who evolved to develop a flawless memory. It's a subset of the Black Mirror episode (and this dubious idea) because there, at least, memory is a purely private thing. Yet the end too was quite predictable and logical -- frequently destroying those of this species simply because your own life and mind ends up becoming more tempting and destructive than even the most enticing of drugs. One could simply lose themselves in your own memories. What need is there for the rest of your life when you can simply endlessly relive, in perfect clarity, the best moments of your life - ones that you, in many cases, will likely never surpass?
- htrp 3y agoAnd yet we are already rushing towards this.
- dwhit 3y agofor a less misanthropic take on the same idea, I recommend Ted Chiang’s “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”
- ametrau 3y agoLol!
- lannisterstark 3y agoI don't see it as "Black Mirror" but rather as a feature. I pretty much record everything about myself anyway (locally, selfhosted) - so this alone wouldn't add any other obstacles than storage. a local model that can analyze the videostream/files and answer questions would be great.
- dbish 3y agoreally? i tend to look to them for ideas
- RUnconcerned 3y agoReminded me of the "Torment Nexus" tweet: https://twitter.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538 https://twitter.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538 > @AlexBlechman > Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale > Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
- bee_rider 3y agoI thought about mentioning the Torment Nexus but I figured it is already in the back of everybody’s heads, in this type of conversation, haha.
- alchemist1e9 3y agoFrame from Brilliant Labs is getting close to providing hardware that can realistically provide the data in a user friendly and fairly incognito style. I’ve preordered them.
- shiroiushi 3y ago>2) Did I get my credit card back after paying the restaurant yesterday? A restaurant should never be taking your credit card out of your view, ever. Really, they should not even be handling it: you should be swiping it yourself at the terminal at the cash register when you pay before leaving.
- bongodongobob 3y agoI would say 95% of the restaurants I go to take your card and run it themselves.
- justsid 3y agoThat’s insane. Here in Canada the waiter/waitress brings a portable pos terminal to the table and you pay through that. I’d be incredibly uncomfortable if they ran away with my credit card.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoWe had that locally. They're abandoning it, citywide. Nobody liked it, it was cumbersome and invasive, it involved your credit card anyway but was a worse experience for everybody.
- justsid 3y agoHow is that a worse experience? I don’t have to mess around the bill to add a tip, I just punch it into the machine and then tap my card or phone. It also makes it super easy to split a bill if you are in a group.
- cal85 3y agoYou don’t mind the waiter/waitress standing over you while you decide how much to tip them?
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