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I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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In some jurisdictions it’s illegal to record a conversation without all-party consent. Example: https://www.rcfp.org/reporters-recording-guide/massachusetts...

These states are: California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Washington.

Edit: I should add that in some of those states, it would still be permitted to record others in public without consent, where there's no reasonable expectation of privacy (e.g. a coffee shop or gas station).

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

#193

I've been experimenting with this recently as well, but with an app on my apple watch. Looking for a method/model to split different speakers into different tracks to only look at audio from myself and certain people.

Ahh I’m working on exact same project. I applied to YC with the idea and was told that “nobody wants this” during the interview.

There’s a ton of problems in the space around privacy and UX. But I’m incredibly excited about projects in this space because in modern society we’re basically surrounded by a million unhealthy things designed to tempt us. Logging forces you to “stay honest”. I’ve been shocked already by how many unhealthy habits I underestimated and how many healthy habits I overestimated.

My #1 priority is just to improve my own physical and mental health. Whether there’s a market for this stuff, who knows.

Good luck!

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I'm a bit concerned about the calorie level I see here, 832/day. That is about 1/3 of the NHS recommendation [1] for males. 1. https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/wha...

Those recommendations are for people that are on their feet all day, not for office workers and home dwellers that never go to the gym.

Estimations for roman soldier on the march come closer to 3000 calories.

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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This is known as life logging with adjacency to sousveillance and it’s a fascinating topic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance We in general don’t want to be watched by others, but a managed record of our own activities can be extremely valuable, and even more so if you find yourself wrongly accused. Further it can be used to shine a light on corrupt officials, one exa…

The trouble with any such footage is that it can be used against you ("as the the defendant's own records show, they were present in the murder area") but they generally won't extricate you when produced by you, since you clearly have a motivation to use it selectively. So you showing a picture of yourself reading a book during what you claim is the murder night is not an alibi, because it could have been produced at any other time, and you will have a massive uphill battle in the court to authenticate that image, and risk even sink you further if you fail ("the defendant even prepared an alibi").

The only way I would accept a commercial product performing this always-on archiving is if:

1. It's encrypted by default with a strong key that can't be subpoenaed or circumvented.

2. The encoder generates its own random key upon installation which I don't know (recoding effectively random, undecodable data), and I then have to manually change the key if I expect to ever read the recording.

Number 1 allows me to review and footage and only release it if it's in my interest, and number 2 affords me plausible deniability, if I don't release the key I can claim I did not know you need to set it manually.

Sure, as long as you are the only nerd doing this, you don't need this complex setup, and you will probably get to use it the unencrypted footage only in your favor. But when it becomes widely accepted as a social norm (say, everyone wearing Google glasses), you can expect law enforcement will become aware of it as a cheap source of self-incriminatory evidence.

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Expanding on the structure the OP created, this is how I see us getting to human level AI: 1. Record video sound etc... (trajectories) egocentrically 2. Analyze the data and assign reward labels (more/good, less/bad) to state and transitions actions 3. Use the reward feedback and trajectories to build the policy for some set of actions in certain environments This is why I'm bullish on anything sousveillance - so AR…

Honest question,how does this make the lives of humans better?

Well, 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

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

#197

Awesome idea. However people would find it weird that I talk to myself all day long.

Yeah, I can see how this would be easier if you work from home, but you could explain that you are running a long lived experiment on yourself. Then again, that doesn't exactly scream "I am fully sane" :)

Well, genius borders madness, and it's been said that talking to oneself is a sign of intelligence, so you may be right.

Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

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I like this. It vibes with a language learning app concept idea I recently shared out loud. https://twitter.com/kuizinas/status/1591867392220594183

I've been doing this with Anki.

When I have a conversation with someone in a language that I'm learning (was Russian and Greek, now Arabic) I record the conversation. I then get both native-speaker audio to add to Anki for the things they said, plus I get a list of words that I either needed to use or that the other person used, to add to Anki.

A secondary benefit is that this system encourages me to go out and seek interactions with people, a clear benefit for a natural introvert.

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