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I find the realtime translation feature quite compelling. Audio translation requires everything being said twice so doubles latency. If two people from two la

I find the realtime translation feature quite compelling. Audio translation requires everything being said twice so doubles latency. If two people from two language speakings both used this, it's a massive step towards a universal translator. A lot of the other features are meh, reminscent of what a 1980s high tech watch might do for you. feels like a PDA The part where I get excited are the AI applications, this is also where it gets unethical. i.e. microexpression/voice analysis, AI suggested responses, realtime fact checking of what a person says, and so on. Applications in anything requiring human interaction, sales, meetings, dating, friendships, etc. Imagine being the voluntary puppet of an AI that tells you what to say. If it becomes mainstream, the implicit bias people make towards someone who wears the glasses and therefore may be AI-fed. The inequalities of the have versus have nots, with regards to having such a personal AI. Ultimately their best bet if shooting for success would probably be to connect it to an AI though. That and social media feeds.

quotemstr 2y ago
What ethical obligation do I have to let people tell me lies to my literal face?
- gpm 2y ago
  The ethical obligation is to 1. Not stream everything around you to third party online servers 2. Not use unreliably and algorithms that almost certainly (accidentally on all parts) discriminate against certain classes of people that they tend to return more false positives for. 3. In situations like dating, present yourself not what an AI chooses to present. ... I'm sure there are plenty more. I'm sure there are ethical use cases for the technology too, but in a world like GP proposes there are going to be plenty of opportunities to use it unethically.
  - quotemstr 2y ago
    I don't recognize a general obligation to limit my subjective experience to what my squishy meat brain can supply independently. We're all going to have to adapt to a more ubiquitously connected environment. Halting everyone's progress in the name of someone's personal of idea "ethics" isn't going to move us forward as a species.
  - unraveller 2y ago
    >In situations like dating If you can't accept me at my go-go-gadget best, you don't deserve me at my baseline.
- ekianjo 2y ago
  who gets to judge what the lie is?
Gys 2y ago
> If two people from two language speakings both used this, it's a massive step towards a universal translator. This could change the world. Ultimately books and films do not ‘need’ translation. No more learning foreign languages. Travel to foreign countries and understand everything, talk with everybody.
jareklupinski 2y ago
> I find the realtime translation feature quite compelling. Audio translation requires everything being said twice so doubles latency. If two people from two language speakings both used this, it's a massive step towards a universal translator. I thought keeping a single airpod in one ear would have this solved by now. Growing up listening to things translated by a 'lektor' makes me hopeful that most people can hear 'tone/emotion' from the speaker in one ear and 'message/content' from a translator in the other ear and use their mind to fuse the two back into coherence I was excited to use this to translate signs / menus, until I saw it has no camera...

quotemstr 2y ago

What ethical obligation do I have to let people tell me lies to my literal face?

gpm 2y ago
The ethical obligation is to 1. Not stream everything around you to third party online servers 2. Not use unreliably and algorithms that almost certainly (accidentally on all parts) discriminate against certain classes of people that they tend to return more false positives for. 3. In situations like dating, present yourself not what an AI chooses to present. ... I'm sure there are plenty more. I'm sure there are ethical use cases for the technology too, but in a world like GP proposes there are going to be plenty of opportunities to use it unethically.
- quotemstr 2y ago
  I don't recognize a general obligation to limit my subjective experience to what my squishy meat brain can supply independently. We're all going to have to adapt to a more ubiquitously connected environment. Halting everyone's progress in the name of someone's personal of idea "ethics" isn't going to move us forward as a species.
- unraveller 2y ago
  >In situations like dating If you can't accept me at my go-go-gadget best, you don't deserve me at my baseline.
ekianjo 2y ago
who gets to judge what the lie is?

Gys 2y ago

> If two people from two language speakings both used this, it's a massive step towards a universal translator. This could change the world. Ultimately books and films do not ‘need’ translation. No more learning foreign languages. Travel to foreign countries and understand everything, talk with everybody.

jareklupinski 2y ago

> I find the realtime translation feature quite compelling. Audio translation requires everything being said twice so doubles latency. If two people from two language speakings both used this, it's a massive step towards a universal translator. I thought keeping a single airpod in one ear would have this solved by now. Growing up listening to things translated by a 'lektor' makes me hopeful that most people can hear 'tone/emotion' from the speaker in one ear and 'message/content' from a translator in the other ear and use their mind to fuse the two back into coherence I was excited to use this to translate signs / menus, until I saw it has no camera...