cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/33445279
Two former Harvard students are launching a pair of “always-on” AI-powered smart glasses that listen to, record, and transcribe every conversation and then display relevant information to the wearer in real time.
“Our goal is to make glasses that make you super intelligent the moment you put them on,” said AnhPhu Nguyen, co-founder of Halo, a startup that’s developing the technology.
Or, as his co-founder Caine Ardayfio put it, the glasses “give you infinite memory.”
“The AI listens to every conversation you have and uses that knowledge to tell you what to say … kinda like IRL Cluely,” Ardayfio told TechCrunch, referring to the startup that claims to help users “cheat” on everything from job interviews to school exams.
what? they didn’t make them powered by the blockchain? they’re slipping.
I remember being at a conference when a guy walked up to a group of us chatting. wearing a Google Glass. Everyone stopped talking, turned around, and just scattered. A while later he walked into the men’s room and someone reported him to security. That afternoon, the glass was gone.
Guess nobody learned that lesson.
And those were just assumptions about if it was recording. People should make similar assumptions about someone holding their phone or carrying it in their shirt pocket.
All I’m saying is the fact we already have recording devices everywhere (our phones) means the transition into acceptance for glasses will happen. As long as the usefulness of the glasses is high enough.
The usefulness of Google Glass was basically zero. So it went away quickly. The whole project was just intended to be a stunt, so Google could look like they were ahead of the curve. I’m convinced of that.
Google literally never gave it a chance, no one ever got access to the damn things I don’t think anyone was even given the opportunity to write apps or even looking to how to theoretically do that.
Same with wave, it was drowned in the bath after only a couple of months of existence, who knows what it could have turned into.
At what point will we not be able to detect them?
When your mom briefly mentions hers and you realize your conversations have been recorded for god knows how long.
If my mother has one then uncontacted tribes in the Amazon also have them. She’s only recently learnt that you can send gifs in messaging apps. Now it’s all I get.
At some point I’m going to have to have a conversation with her about how memes have meaning, and you need to respond with the right one, and not just like a random one.
This tech could be life changing for blind or deaf people
Too bad it’s not being designed for them.
Assistive technology is a massive area of development in smart glasses; it absolutely is being designed for people with vision and hearing impairments.
That’s good to hear
Thinking of which, what happened with neuralink? Haven’t heard of it for some time now. I guess elon already fried those test subject’s brains?
And what about the self driving cars? And Mars? And…
The thing with neuralink is that (even here) it was quite common to find defenders of it using OPs argument, like it will change the life of the blind and not become just another way of invading our privacy and bombard us with ads.
I think it’s still a thing but of course it’s Elon time. So when he says within a few years he means maybe before the heat death of the universe.
I think they got in trouble for killing too many test animals but got approved for human trials.
Harvard makes irl Super Villains.
We do what we must because we can.
For the good of all of us; except the ones who are dead.
But theres no use crying over every mistake
Remember in 2013 when we shouted down Google from doing this exact shit and now Harvard dropouts think they’ve cured cancer by “inventing” it?
God I fucking hate this planet
Bros too smart to finish submitting their assignments on time decide to audition for corporate poster boys.
That’s illegal in most states.
Thought so too, but I just looked. One party consent is OK in most states.
I stand corrected
When I did customer service we had to do this as part of then training course, no idea why since we didn’t choose whether or not to record calls, they were all recorded.
I think the way it works is the customer is told, before the call starts, that the call is recorded, if they continue with the call that’s consent, however now consent already exists for the call to be recorded, they can record your call and they don’t have to tell you, because your consent to the call being recorded is kind of assumed.
But you have to actually get that consent, you can’t just assume that people will be okay with being recorded, you have to tell them that a call will be recorded. Critically this has to be before the call starts you can’t tell them after the fact.
So in this case you would have to wear a t-shirt that says “I’m recording everything”, and if people don’t like it they won’t talk to you.
It’s illegal in Massachusetts so maybe that’s why they dropped out
Whoa. Too smart for Harvard?! Ultra slay! I’m gonna crypto invest in these bros yesterday!!
Is it better to drop out of Harvard than a less prestigious college? Is your inability to complete the course at a famous university in some way better?
Well this is how that technology is going to play out. For the first couple years it will be extremely helpful, to the point that the users stop depending on their own internal memories and their brains start pruning that functionality out. Then generative AI will be used to fill in missing details prior to the start of using them. And then they are going to slowly start feeding more and more lies until they are cheerful about being slaves.
Smart glasses would be really cool to have. It would be nice to be able to integrate my phone’s functionality into my glasses, that I don’t wear.
But I don’t want AI glasses that are permanently on.
Aren’t Meta’s smart glasses that?
If Meta’s involved then all your conversations will be shared by Zuckerberg and a million of his closest business partners.
I assume someone wanting to “integrate their phone’s functionality” is OK with a bit of personal data sharing with big tech.
