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How far are we away from something like a helmet with chat GPT and a video camera installed, I imagine this will be awesome for low vision people. Imagine havin

How far are we away from something like a helmet with chat GPT and a video camera installed, I imagine this will be awesome for low vision people. Imagine having a guide tell you how to walk to the grocery store, and help you grocery shop without an assistant. Of course you have tons of liability issues here, but this is very impressive

rfoo 2y ago
Can't wait for the moment when I can puta single line "Help me put this in the cart" on my product and magically sells better.
- smokel 2y ago
  This Dutch book [1] by Gummbah has the text "Kooptip" imprinted on the cover, which would roughly translate to "Buying recommendation". It worked for me! [1] https://www.amazon.com/Het-geheim-verdwenen-mysterie-Dutch/dp/9080348163 https://www.amazon.com/Het-geheim-verdwenen-mysterie-Dutch/d...
  - DonHopkins 2y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Book
- seanmcdirmid 2y ago
  Or tell the AI to optimize paper clip production as much as possible.
macintux 2y ago
Just the ability to distinguish bills would be hugely helpful, although I suppose that's much less of a problem these days with credit cards and digital payment options.
krainboltgreene 2y ago
> Imagine having a guide tell you how to walk to the grocery store I don't need to imagine that, I've had it for about 8 years. It's OK. > help you grocery shop without an assistant Isn't this something you learn as a child? Is that a thing we need automated?
- jameshart 2y ago
  OP specified they were imaging this for low vision people
  - krainboltgreene 2y ago
    I'm aware, I'm one of those people.
    - bombcar 2y ago
      Does it give you voice instructions based on what it knows or is it actively watching the environment and telling you things like "light is red, car is coming"?
      - jaggederest 2y ago
        I assume it likes snacks, is quadrupedal, and does not have the proper mouth anatomy or diaphragm for human speech.
ninininino 2y ago
just need the helmet https://openai.com/index/be-my-eyes/ https://openai.com/index/be-my-eyes/
JieJie 2y ago
We're planning on getting a phone-carrying lanyard and she will just carry her phone around her neck with Be My Eyes^0 looking out the rear camera, pointed outward. She's DeafBlind, so it'll be bluetoothed to her hearing aids, and she can interact with the world through the conversational AI. I helped her access the video from the presentation, and it brought her to tears. Now, she can play guitar, and the AI and her can write songs and sing them together. This is a big day in the lives of a lot of people whom aren't normally part of the conversation. As of today, they are. 0: https://www.bemyeyes.com/ https://www.bemyeyes.com/
- 999900000999 2y ago
  That's definitely cool! Eventually it would be better for these models to run locally from a security point if view, but this is a great first step.
  - JieJie 2y ago
    Absolutely. We're looking forward to Apple's announcements at WWDC this year, which analysts predict are right up that alley.
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silverquiet 2y ago
It sounds like the system that Marshall Brain envisioned in his novella, Manna.
- jaggederest 2y ago
  That story has always been completely reasonable and plausible to me. Incredible foresight. I guess I should start a midlevel management voice automation company.
- pdfernhout 2y ago
  Definitely heading there: https://marshallbrain.com/manna https://marshallbrain.com/manna "With half of the jobs eliminated by robots, what happens to all the people who are out of work? The book Manna explores the possibilities and shows two contrasting outcomes, one filled with great hope and the other filled with misery." And here are some ideas I put together around 2010 on how to deal with the socio-economic fallout from AI and other advanced technology: https://pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html https://pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html "This article explores the issue of a "Jobless Recovery" mainly from a heterodox economic perspective. It emphasizes the implications of ideas by Marshall Brain and others that improvements in robotics, automation, design, and voluntary social networks are fundamentally changing the structure of the economic landscape. It outlines towards the end four major alternatives to mainstream economic practice (a basic income, a gift economy, stronger local subsistence economies, and resource-based planning). These alternatives could be used in combination to address what, even as far back as 1964, has been described as a breaking "income-through-jobs link". This link between jobs and income is breaking because of the declining value of most paid human labor relative to capital investments in automation and better design. Or, as is now the case, the value of paid human labor like at some newspapers or universities is also declining relative to the output of voluntary social networks such as for digital content production (like represented by this document). It is suggested that we will need to fundamentally reevaluate our economic theories and practices to adjust to these new realities emerging from exponential trends in technology and society." And a related YouTube video: "The Richest Man in the World: A parable about structural unemployment and a basic income" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p14bAe6AzhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p14bAe6AzhA "A parable about robotics, abundance, technological change, unemployment, happiness, and a basic income." My sig is about the deeper issue here though: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."
sim7c00 2y ago
city guide tours, not a bad take tbh :D rather than walkin behind the guy with a megaphone and a flag.

rfoo 2y ago

Can't wait for the moment when I can puta single line "Help me put this in the cart" on my product and magically sells better.

smokel 2y ago
This Dutch book [1] by Gummbah has the text "Kooptip" imprinted on the cover, which would roughly translate to "Buying recommendation". It worked for me! [1] https://www.amazon.com/Het-geheim-verdwenen-mysterie-Dutch/dp/9080348163 https://www.amazon.com/Het-geheim-verdwenen-mysterie-Dutch/d...
- DonHopkins 2y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Book
seanmcdirmid 2y ago
Or tell the AI to optimize paper clip production as much as possible.

macintux 2y ago

Just the ability to distinguish bills would be hugely helpful, although I suppose that's much less of a problem these days with credit cards and digital payment options.

krainboltgreene 2y ago

> Imagine having a guide tell you how to walk to the grocery store I don't need to imagine that, I've had it for about 8 years. It's OK. > help you grocery shop without an assistant Isn't this something you learn as a child? Is that a thing we need automated?

jameshart 2y ago
OP specified they were imaging this for low vision people
- krainboltgreene 2y ago
  I'm aware, I'm one of those people.
  - bombcar 2y ago
    Does it give you voice instructions based on what it knows or is it actively watching the environment and telling you things like "light is red, car is coming"?
    - jaggederest 2y ago
      I assume it likes snacks, is quadrupedal, and does not have the proper mouth anatomy or diaphragm for human speech.

ninininino 2y ago

just need the helmet https://openai.com/index/be-my-eyes/ https://openai.com/index/be-my-eyes/

JieJie 2y ago

We're planning on getting a phone-carrying lanyard and she will just carry her phone around her neck with Be My Eyes^0 looking out the rear camera, pointed outward. She's DeafBlind, so it'll be bluetoothed to her hearing aids, and she can interact with the world through the conversational AI. I helped her access the video from the presentation, and it brought her to tears. Now, she can play guitar, and the AI and her can write songs and sing them together. This is a big day in the lives of a lot of people whom aren't normally part of the conversation. As of today, they are. 0: https://www.bemyeyes.com/ https://www.bemyeyes.com/

999900000999 2y ago
That's definitely cool! Eventually it would be better for these models to run locally from a security point if view, but this is a great first step.
- JieJie 2y ago
  Absolutely. We're looking forward to Apple's announcements at WWDC this year, which analysts predict are right up that alley.

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silverquiet 2y ago

It sounds like the system that Marshall Brain envisioned in his novella, Manna.

jaggederest 2y ago
That story has always been completely reasonable and plausible to me. Incredible foresight. I guess I should start a midlevel management voice automation company.
pdfernhout 2y ago
Definitely heading there: https://marshallbrain.com/manna https://marshallbrain.com/manna "With half of the jobs eliminated by robots, what happens to all the people who are out of work? The book Manna explores the possibilities and shows two contrasting outcomes, one filled with great hope and the other filled with misery." And here are some ideas I put together around 2010 on how to deal with the socio-economic fallout from AI and other advanced technology: https://pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html https://pdfernhout.net/beyond-a-jobless-recovery-knol.html "This article explores the issue of a "Jobless Recovery" mainly from a heterodox economic perspective. It emphasizes the implications of ideas by Marshall Brain and others that improvements in robotics, automation, design, and voluntary social networks are fundamentally changing the structure of the economic landscape. It outlines towards the end four major alternatives to mainstream economic practice (a basic income, a gift economy, stronger local subsistence economies, and resource-based planning). These alternatives could be used in combination to address what, even as far back as 1964, has been described as a breaking "income-through-jobs link". This link between jobs and income is breaking because of the declining value of most paid human labor relative to capital investments in automation and better design. Or, as is now the case, the value of paid human labor like at some newspapers or universities is also declining relative to the output of voluntary social networks such as for digital content production (like represented by this document). It is suggested that we will need to fundamentally reevaluate our economic theories and practices to adjust to these new realities emerging from exponential trends in technology and society." And a related YouTube video: "The Richest Man in the World: A parable about structural unemployment and a basic income" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p14bAe6AzhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p14bAe6AzhA "A parable about robotics, abundance, technological change, unemployment, happiness, and a basic income." My sig is about the deeper issue here though: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."

sim7c00 2y ago

city guide tours, not a bad take tbh :D rather than walkin behind the guy with a megaphone and a flag.