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Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

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Post by sippeangelo »

bigfudge wrote: post #4

I really wish someone would make a pendant like this which is focussed on local-only use. It could connect to a mobile app or computer for transcription and summarisation, but using local models or an API key that the use chooses. I would pay serious money for a device high quality that did this (>$500) if it was backed by open-source platform/infrastructure for processing the managing the audio. Even better if it wa…

I am personally excited for when the “Humane AI” pendant flops and sells for cheap on Ebay!

Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

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Post by iamleppert »

The value of taking notes isn’t in the text content that is produced. It’s in the actual act of taking the notes, that’s what actually creates meaningful connections in your brain and leads to greater insight and on demand memory later.

Would you rather have someone who when asked a question can answer it on demand or someone who has to go searching for a needle in their haystack of voice / text / LLM summarized notes?

That’s why people take notes. Not to produce text. It seems like every few years a new crop of dictation as a service companies crop up and learn this lesson all over again. Users who can’t be bothered to take their own notes never go back searching through them.

Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

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Post by nikcub »

dsiroker wrote: post #34
cakeface wrote: post #28

Aren't there wiretapping laws that make recording conversations in certain situations illegal? I love the idea of this type of technology but it seems tricky to deploy from a moral and legal perspective.

That's why we are going to offer Consent Mode. Consent Mode makes it possible for the first time ever to only capture the voice of people who have given consent to be recorded. It uses voice identification to determine who is speaking and verbal opt-in to make it frictionless to ask for consent. Here's a direct link to the timestamp of the announcement where we show how Consent Mode works: https://twitter.com/dsiroke…

Just a tip - consent shouldn't be a mode, it should be the default. Might want to re-think how you market the idea because done correctly, it is a powerful feature.

Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

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Post by int_19h »

silverlake wrote: post #80
eh9 wrote: post #15

i haven’t personally used the AI pin, but based on reviews, it doesn’t feel like these devices are going to feel productive until a much higher % of queries is answered on-device (without going to the cloud). MKBHD asked his pin what he was looking at, and in the time humane’s pin to take a pic, send it up to the cloud, decide what model is most appropriate, and narrate a really long (possibly hallucinatory) answer;…

You’re talking about the humane ai pin. That’s different.

It's the same in a sense that both are cloud-based, so the same set of problems applies.

Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

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Post by int_19h »

PStamatiou wrote: post #25

(Co-founder of Limitless here) For any designers / front-end folks here, I wrote a thread going over some of the design details on our new homepage: https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/1779860940541808935

I'm speechless, honestly. Are you seriously bragging about the sheer amount of scrolling animations and other useless but highly annoying bling that you've managed to spring onto the poor visitors of the website? Because, yes, that is a truly impressive amount of it, but the only thing I can take away from it all is that you don't care about usability.

Dear god, just watching some of those videos is painful. Like when trying to scroll literally two lines of text on the screen instead highlights them word by word and pops up icons to "illustrate" each word: https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/1779867509388165203. I don't think I've seen a website condescendingly "speaking slow" to a user before...

Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

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Post by int_19h »

dsiroker wrote: post #21
georgehill wrote: post #2

Any data privacy experts here? Could someone explain how data encryption and decryption work here? https://www.limitless.ai/#privacy

Confidential Cloud is similar to end-to-end encryption, but with the added benefit of letting your personalized AI work for you even when you aren’t using the app. You control who can decrypt your data Your employer, we as software providers, and the government cannot decrypt your data without your permission, even with a subpoena to do so. Your data is anonymized There is an initial mapping from your application req…

This is nonsense. If you can send the data over to third party AI providers for transcription and summarization, you can just as well send it to anyone else who asks for it (e.g. government wiretap, advertisers) whilst removing the "anonymization" part. It doesn't matter that you cannot export the keys used to decrypt in-memory if you control the code that then processes the decrypted data.

It is not at all "similar to end-to-end encryption".

Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

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Post by NetOpWibby »

NetOpWibby wrote: post #47

This looks incredible. Site looks fantastic. In a perfect world, I'd pre-order immediately. I sure as hell am NOT subjecting friends and family to being recorded and having those recordings going to some cloud I don't control. Just this morning I got an email from AT&T about how they regret that my data was leaked but it's not so bad, sign up for this monitoring service. I have no choice but to use certain services.…

Oh, looks like Consent Mode is turned OFF by default.

Yeah, nah.

https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio/112276682288723340

Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

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Post by NetOpWibby »

dsiroker wrote: post #34
cakeface wrote: post #28

Aren't there wiretapping laws that make recording conversations in certain situations illegal? I love the idea of this type of technology but it seems tricky to deploy from a moral and legal perspective.

That's why we are going to offer Consent Mode. Consent Mode makes it possible for the first time ever to only capture the voice of people who have given consent to be recorded. It uses voice identification to determine who is speaking and verbal opt-in to make it frictionless to ask for consent. Here's a direct link to the timestamp of the announcement where we show how Consent Mode works: https://twitter.com/dsiroke…

Why is Consent Mode OFF by default?

https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio/112276682288723340

Re: Limitless: Personalized AI powered by what you've seen, said, and heard

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Post by JohnFen »

NetOpWibby wrote: post #88
dsiroker wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why we are going to offer Consent Mode. Consent Mode makes it possible for the first time ever to only capture the voice of people who have given consent to be recorded. It uses voice identification to determine who is speaking and verbal opt-in to make it frictionless to ask for consent. Here's a direct link to the timestamp of the announcement where we show how Consent Mode works: https://twitter.com/dsiroke…

Why is Consent Mode OFF by default? https://xoxo.zone/@andybaio/112276682288723340

Why is it possible for it to be off at all?
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