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

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Post by Waterluvian »

zrail wrote: post #73
Telemakhos wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Students in most public schools don’t even learn English grammar now in most states. That went away at some point in the Bush or Obama administrations, probably due to the NCLB and Common Core initiatives. It is not uncommon now to encounter college students who simply have never heard of a “direct object.” They need classes on the grammar of their own language more than they need a school subject on interacting with…

Common Core has English grammar as a foundational skill. Your specific example is taught in grade 5. That said, English is a difficult language and I'm not at all surprised that people get through school without fully grasping the names for grammar concepts, even if they use them every day.

I learned this when I was about 20, met a foreign friend online who was formally learning English, and I couldn't answer most of her questions.

It was a bizarre but very educational moment: I use English like I write code: I have no formal education on it but I seem to do fine.

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Post by ninkendo »

sofetch wrote: post #146
ninkendo wrote: post #88

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> This does not follow from the above Well, I elaborated after. There's an actual finite set of skills that are coded up by actual engineers. A natural language system isn't hallucinating the ABI for the function calls that send text messages. There's code there which takes the utterance and sends the texts. What I'm saying is that you can take an inventory of what skills have been written (and/or are installed), and…

> you can take an inventory of what skills have been written (and/or are installed), and y'know... document them somewhere. Sure. I didn't take exception with anything except the standard HN middlebrow dismissal.

I'm not giving a middlebrow dismissal. There exists a real discoverability problem with virtual assistants, and asking users to "just try things" leads them to try things that don't work, and then conclude that the assistant must not be as useful as they thought.

Moreover, when an assistant doesn't do a thing, you're unlikely to try it again later; instead most people will conclude "I guess it can't do that" and move on. If they add the feature later, it's too late.

With every failed request, your confidence that an assistant really is intelligent and can understand you, diminishes more and more. Every time a user hits a dead end with a virtual assistant, it doesn't encourage them to try more things that do work, it instead gives the user less confident that anything will.

I can't count the number of times my wife has been surprised I can get Siri to do things. Her typical response is "I can never get her to understand me so I just stick with timers." It's a real problem, and I'm not being dismissive of anything.

In contrast, reread your comment in this context. You're taking my comment, reading in the least charitable way, condescending to me about the meaning of finite when the rest of my comment clarifies what I mean, and being completely dismissive of the point I'm trying to make. How can you say I'm the one issuing middlebrow dismissals?

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

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Post by roberdam »

cbsks wrote: post #216
roberdam wrote: post #147

Since everyone is interested in the hardware: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803349510543.html https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803085687061.html the particular choice was for the battery and the other for the size, both are generic and come with the same software and bios, several vendors, if I could buy something better I would look for one that can have a lavalier microphone

Super cool project! How do you carry the microphones on your person? The big one looks like it wouldn’t clip to a shirt very easily. Does it pick up your voice from your pocket?

thanks!, I try it on my shirt pocket but now I have it hanging from my neck with a badge rope as close to the mouth as I can

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iwillbenice wrote: post #82
lbayes wrote: post #37

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There was an article some years ago (2 or 3?), that described a drone (or drones?) that flew 24/7 over Mexico city taking high resolution video of the entire city at all times. Whenever there was a crime, the police could zoom into that location at the time of the crime and then run backwards to see where the vehicles came from. They then knocked on that door. I'm disappointed that I can't seem to find it using Googl…

Not sure about the Mexico City drone, but a similar thing was developed by the US military: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare I know some folks who deployed during OEF/OIF and used these types of systems. Many a night raids were conducted simply by watching where attackers originated from.

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Post by waprin »

dsalzman wrote: post #220
waprin wrote: post #193

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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 ho…

My original inspiration is to better understand how I talk to others and study my own behavior

A noble goal. One of my bad habits I've been tracking and trying to reduce is rude behavior to people, online or in-person.

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Post by ycombinete »

adamgordonbell wrote: post #28

An off the shelf solution for recording your whole life: I have a Sony recorder, ICD-UX570, and it has a setting where it turns on or off based on sound, and also adjusts the gain to best record. It takes a micro-SD card and has pretty solid battery. I think you could put it in a breast pocket and run it for several days on a single charge. Because it would just record when you are talking or making noises you could…

Would the sound of jostling in your pocket/bag not set off the recording?

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Post by thingification »

hirundo wrote: post #145
twobitshifter wrote: post #138

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…

> Further it can be used to shine a light on corrupt officials Little Brother surveillance. It would be nice not to be surveilled at all, but since that's not an option the answer to "quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" is us.

In times past, it was obvious that it wasn't an option to avoid pervasive violence (by orders of magnitude compared to today).

It was, though.

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Post by xerox13ster »

hirundo wrote: post #145
twobitshifter wrote: post #138

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…

> Further it can be used to shine a light on corrupt officials Little Brother surveillance. It would be nice not to be surveilled at all, but since that's not an option the answer to "quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" is us.

Who watches the watchmen? The watched.

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Post by thingification »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #178

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…

Another challenge is industry-wide bad security fundamentals.

Godspeed to work/people like agoric.com and seL4.

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Post by justinlloyd »

L0in wrote: post #219
justinlloyd wrote: post #204

Interesting work, glad to see I am not the only crazy one left in the life logging scene after all these years. Have been lifelogging since 2004-ish, and built a few custom bits of software and hardware to support it. I don't record 24x7 anymore, but I used to. Now my recordings are limited mostly to my office environment, and when I am out and about using a Sensecam-like device with custom firmware. When in my offic…

Do you mind sharing your experience, why you started, what you want to get out of this etc? I'm interested to read your experience.

Not interested.
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