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> My biggest problem with “OK Google” is that I don’t know by heart what it can do interactively Maybe it’s just me but this feels unaddressed and that seems ridiculous. Why is it so hard for me to find a single, precise location on my phone with an enumerated list of every command Siri or Google can work with?
The future will definitely have devices which record visually/verbally all your life. VR headsets are already able to record all your facial expressions. A google glasses like gear which records all your life is pretty much possible in the near future. The future influencers won't have to carry a phone/camera to create vlogs, they would just see wherever they want and the glasses will record not only the thing they a…
Now I think it will result in unbearable self-consciousness. You will yearn to be offline, quiet, to just forget, maybe to enjoy the moment without it going in your permanent history.
Arguments in relationships are messed up when you can rewind and debate what he said she said. The actual words are often not important, it's the emotions. The permanent record makes it harder to forgive and move on. It's like being in court, everything transcribed.
> given most people with each generation are increasingly becoming more and more comfortable sharing their whole lives online.
There is an entire generation who learned not to post, many who are very anti social media, many who stay anonymous. Chat is much bigger than public social these days.
There are also scenes that avoid digital. They make cassette music and black and white photocopy artwork.
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Each to their own. Personally the value these cloud/AI assistants give me is worth the loss of privacy. There's nothing I do that I think anyone would be especially interested in spying on, other than to try and sell me things. Note that I don't think anyone should be forced into this sort of surveilance. It should always be a choice. I also support the open source projects to bring it back to individual control - it…
> the value these cloud/AI assistants give me is worth the loss of privacy they've got you right where they want you.
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I am using it with friends and family, and tell them beforehand about the experiment
What about going out to a restaurant, a party, a date, or even somebody you bump into on the street? You're recording a lot of people, which to me is a huge invasion of privacy. What do you do if someone is uncomfortable with being recorded?
I mentioned it in another reply but this is discussed in The Every by Dave Eggers, there is essentially an entire area of San Francisco that is deliberately kept free of any and all devices that can record A/V and in order to enter you have to deposit your phone and be wanded to detect surreptitious recording devices.
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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 a…
> all you need to do to instrument it is attaching a camera and mic to your face It's funny that this is a reasonable thing to say.
They would find that notion preposterous. But now, some short years later, they would give it barely a thought.
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I would 100% prefer to lose my keys rather than letting Amazon or Google in. FYI: I have zero Alexa/Siri enabled device, zero automated home device, a degoogled phone, etc etc. So we might have different perspectives on the matter.
Each to their own. Personally the value these cloud/AI assistants give me is worth the loss of privacy. There's nothing I do that I think anyone would be especially interested in spying on, other than to try and sell me things. Note that I don't think anyone should be forced into this sort of surveilance. It should always be a choice. I also support the open source projects to bring it back to individual control - it…
The tech is there so someone could make a box with no external data transferred that could store and analyze video data. I would be a customer for sure for something that had this capability without the privacy concerns.
Google and Amazon say they want this data for quality control, but I suspect each of them have plans (if not active projects) for converting video inside people's homes into actionable marketing data.
The passive information would be useful if that would work with your inner voice.
Love this idea. Most people subvocalize when they read, and my guess is the same for when they write. As for subvocalizing when we think, I have no idea, but I suppose if one were engaged in “talking to oneself” type thinking, that it could be possible that many subvocalize their internal monologues. Is there some kind of sensor that one could wear that would be unobtrusive enough to measure subvocalization? If so, b…
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
I wanted to do this exact project - record audio all day and then have AI process it - to identify behavior outburst of my autistic toddler. It's critical information for early diagnosis and treatment, but it's really hard to capture the data while also dealing with the actual situation. Being able to send the sounds he makes to his therapist could also be usefull when then are trying to get him to mimic sounds and t…
It does speech-to-text, then you can use the full force of all the text analysis tools that are out there.
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I would 100% prefer to lose my keys rather than letting Amazon or Google in. FYI: I have zero Alexa/Siri enabled device, zero automated home device, a degoogled phone, etc etc. So we might have different perspectives on the matter.
Curious: are you concerned about data leaks or you don't trust the employees to not access your user data? Or something else?
Additionally, we, the consumers, have lost the right to own things. Or at least, if we do own things, it comes with all sorts of strings attached in the form of "features" or "connectivity". Which is just marketing lingo to say that you're feeding the cash cow.
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> the value these cloud/AI assistants give me is worth the loss of privacy they've got you right where they want you.
He seems to have them right where we he wants them, too. Mutual transaction. Everybody's happy.
The benefits of the producer measures in dollars.
However you balance it, the producer wins. By many orders of magnitude.
And since were talking about privacy and personal data, the more consumers there are, the more the producers improve their margin on each and all consumers.