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Aw, that's nice of pg to want something better for his friend. As cynical as we are about technology, new developments can be so fantastic for accessibility and better quality of life.
Unfortunately we use all that technology on devices that are built with metals mined by kids in Congo and similar states. Talk about quality of life.
In case anyone is interested: There are plenty of companies around. Both apple and Facebook acquired eye tracking companies to kickstart their own development. Here are some Top-lists https://imotions.com/blog/insights/trend/top-eye-tracking-ha... https://valentinazezelj.medium.com/top-10-eye-tracking-compa... Its also an active research field, this is one of the bigger conferences: https://etra.acm.org/2023/
I believe Paul Graham can Google or use AI and already knows about the companies and links you posted. His post was a call to action to connect with people working on yet to be discovered innovations and inspire those and others quietly working to come forward and connect with him.
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I fail to see how Tesla fixes an "important problem". They're big electric SUV with huge batteries that require tons of mining and destroy the environment. They're largely non repairable. The full self driving feature seems to be vapor ware. The space stuff looked interesting until he started sending all kinds of things into space to become an ISP, polluting space the same way Tesla pollutes the earth. The real issue…
This seems like those conservative talking points "I saw a homeless child on my drive to work today. Why are we sending money to Ukraine". We can work on many problems at once. Tesla also makes a car.
Simplified, with current capitalism, doing the right thing doesn't pay off. We have more than enough know-how and technology to fix real issues but we'd rather put rich people in overweight electric cars.
Yes, full self driving could help save lifes. Space exploration helps us better understand our world. But often times, current capitalism encourages the use of technology and know-how for things that benefit a minority at the expense of the most vulnerable.
I suspect a foveated system is going to be a big thing in machine vision as well.
That's an interesting idea. How do you see it being beneficial to machine learning models, other than (I assume) it could work more efficiently within less foveal regions? Perhaps cases where you want the vision to emulate human vision?
After you parse what an object is, tracking it doesn't take anywhere near the effort of original segmentation. No need to re-evaluate until something changes.
Maybe even use activations to turn on and off networks. "Oh text better load ocr into memory"
And it does inform a lot of our built world It's strange to think that when watching a movie only 10% is in focus.
Eye movement does provide a lot of information to other people and I think the physical movement produces feedback for velocities and things too. Mimicking biology is often a good bet.
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I fail to see how Tesla fixes an "important problem". They're big electric SUV with huge batteries that require tons of mining and destroy the environment. They're largely non repairable. The full self driving feature seems to be vapor ware. The space stuff looked interesting until he started sending all kinds of things into space to become an ISP, polluting space the same way Tesla pollutes the earth. The real issue…
This seems like those conservative talking points "I saw a homeless child on my drive to work today. Why are we sending money to Ukraine". We can work on many problems at once. Tesla also makes a car.
Is the lack of mentioning Apple deliberate? It seems like they've already poured a lot of R&D into this for the Vision Pro, which might be exactly the kind of thing the friend needs.
It's not available yet. And in any case if this is the future there should be multiple companies doing it, not just Apple.
Not really a huge PG fan, but this is what billionaires should be doing: see where a need is exists and put some of your insane wealth towards making an improvement. This why I respect Elon even though I don’t really like him; he puts his money to use, in a very public manner.
This is not altruistic. He is looking to make an investment which he assumes would have an upside.
Is the lack of mentioning Apple deliberate? It seems like they've already poured a lot of R&D into this for the Vision Pro, which might be exactly the kind of thing the friend needs.
Is the lack of mentioning Apple deliberate? It seems like they've already poured a lot of R&D into this for the Vision Pro, which might be exactly the kind of thing the friend needs.
It's not available yet. And in any case if this is the future there should be multiple companies doing it, not just Apple.
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This seems like those conservative talking points "I saw a homeless child on my drive to work today. Why are we sending money to Ukraine". We can work on many problems at once. Tesla also makes a car.
This had nothing to do with conservative talking points. It has to do with current capitalism always looking for money but letting the real societal issues ongoing because fixing them doesn't pay enough dividends. Simplified, with current capitalism, doing the right thing doesn't pay off. We have more than enough know-how and technology to fix real issues but we'd rather put rich people in overweight electric cars. Y…