I remember an Asimov short story in which scientists developed a machine that could see backward in time. If I recall correctly, the upshot was the government became terrified because any machine that can see 1000 years into the past can also see 1000 milliseconds into the past and therefore functionally be used to spy on anyone in real time.
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…
I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
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#352Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
#353This 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…
a managed record of our own activities can be extremely valuable I've thought of this as a hardware product: A device that records your own voice and non vocal sounds, but which does not record the words of others. (That, plus maybe location and a video stream, provided one is in a location without "a reasonable expectation of privacy.") Perhaps it doesn't even have to be hardware at this point! Maybe this could be i…
a throat mic would do the trick
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#354Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Vague snipes like this are generally not allowed on HN, FYI. (Source: I've done it myself too many times)
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#355Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Sounds like a nightmare!
Perhaps the BMI/Food tracking example isn't one that resonates with you
Can you explain a bit more about what part of having a non-intermediated "personal API" (or whatever you'd call it) is nightmarish?
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#356This is a cool project. One of my pet ideas that I haven't done is to build a home assistant where all data is stored and processed by a home "server". The biggest benefit I see is that it could truly be omnipresent. There in the background, answering questions, jumping into your conversations without prompt. And it's much less creepy if all that data isn't going to someone else's computer. Also piping in and process…
this is also one of my pet ideas, but I keep procrastinating. Have your idea transformed into any kind of repos that we can contribute to?
> One of my pet ideas that *I haven't done*
I suspect OP was clear enough.
But there exists https://mycroft.ai/
Re: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
#357This is a cool project. One of my pet ideas that I haven't done is to build a home assistant where all data is stored and processed by a home "server". The biggest benefit I see is that it could truly be omnipresent. There in the background, answering questions, jumping into your conversations without prompt. And it's much less creepy if all that data isn't going to someone else's computer. Also piping in and process…
It does not sound like a realistic capacity plan. The reason this works in the cloud is the inference can be run in parallel on a huge amount of hardware for a short time. To run those kind of models on your rinkydink computer would take forever.
An Nvidia 3090 GPU can run open ai's whisper at 17x realtime[0]. they're not exactly cheap (~$500?), but they're cheap enough that running the transcription end at home is quite feasible. And, it includes translation, so you don't have to do it in English.
Searching all of a downloaded copy of Wikipedia wouldn't be that computationally expensive either if the assistant has hot words it picks up to look up.
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#358Pretty sure Bill Gates wrote about this idea in his book. It SEEMED like the future, but software/hardware innovation goes where the money is, and no one is interested in recording their own lives. Maybe once the AI to make use of it gets better, it'll find product-market fit.
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#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I'd just get really annoyed at that AI ...being annoyed increases stress, which increases appetite
Ok, then have it do something else?
The point here is, you could have it do anything you choose
...or just don't all together in which case, why comment?
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#360In some jurisdictions it’s illegal to record a conversation without all-party consent. Example: https://www.rcfp.org/reporters-recording-guide/massachusetts...
Obviously the solution is for the government to record audio in all places at once, and then those with $$$$ can just pay for the audio feed. Win/win.