Best part of humane? You don't need to own one in order to be videod, photographed and have your privacy perpetually violated! It's always watching you even though you don't have one!
I was at a friend's house the other day in the front yard and noticed their neighbor across the street had a ring cam door bell then was immediately thankful my own neighbors don't own one where it's videoing my family 24/7 without my consent for it to live on ring servers with facial and pattern recognitions.
Maybe building a whole product off of generative AI might be a bad idea.As pointed out by more than one Verge commenter and on this post on Threads, Humane’s AI Pin demo features it confidently making an error about where you can watch April’s total solar eclipse. I’m getting flashbacks to when Google’s Bard made a factual error in its first demo.
These sorts of high-profile flubs are why I have a hard time getting excited about many generative AI tools right now.
"Confidently providing incorrect information" is something AI has been repeatedly found doing. It's also something characteristic of the human Left brain hemisphere, which also becomes defensive when its misinformation is challenged. Left-hemisphere dominance has seeped into the culture, fortified by modern tech and, for that matter, by things as simple as the emphasis on reading (especially by reading left-right alphabetic languages).
You can say the same about fire, but at least we know what to EXPECT from fire, and how to deal with it.
AI is new, and -- despite being a tech nerd and excited about AI and this new product in particular -- I have always been concerned that we take its dangers too lightly.
What kind of jank crap is this? All it is, is a pin that acts like a virtual assistant between you and your phone. LMK how it does when the memory has more than a month of data to sift through and dont ever have to worry about signal strength.
Oppose at all fronts, would be my take. The public sheep already over-trust white coats. The faith placed in computation is equally wrong and damaging.
Best part of humane? You don't need to own one in order to be videod, photographed and have your privacy perpetually violated! It's always watching you even though you don't have one!
I was at a friend's house the other day in the front yard and noticed their neighbor across the street had a ring cam door bell then was immediately thankful my own neighbors don't own one where it's videoing my family 24/7 without my consent for it to live on ring servers with facial and pattern recognitions.
I don’t want AI experiences
Comment from https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/9/23954497/humane-ai-pin-wearable-news-announcements --
Jay Peters NOV 9
JAY PETERS
"Confidently providing incorrect information" is something AI has been repeatedly found doing. It's also something characteristic of the human Left brain hemisphere, which also becomes defensive when its misinformation is challenged. Left-hemisphere dominance has seeped into the culture, fortified by modern tech and, for that matter, by things as simple as the emphasis on reading (especially by reading left-right alphabetic languages).
A related characteristic of both AI and the human Left hemisphere is a way of attending to the world that virtualizes what is real, seeing things as mechanical, lifeless, and parts to be dealt with individually as opposed to seeing the whole as a connected organic unit. Empathy does not exist in either the Left hemisphere (only in the right), nor in a computer program, no matter how complex and sophisticated.
AI is an incredibly powerful and useful tool.
It is also an incredibly dangerous one.
You can say the same about fire, but at least we know what to EXPECT from fire, and how to deal with it.
AI is new, and -- despite being a tech nerd and excited about AI and this new product in particular -- I have always been concerned that we take its dangers too lightly.
Holy shite.
Fabulous!
Insane!
Terrifying!
So many conflicting thoughts and feelings about this . . .
I'm a long-time SciFi fan, and this is . . . the most futuristic consumer device I've ever seen.
Every tool can be used for good and for evil; this one is powerful and subtle enough to offer whole new levels of both.
EDIT: This looks like very attractive cheese for a shiny new mousetrap.
But damn: I want one. Must . . . resist . . .
What kind of jank crap is this? All it is, is a pin that acts like a virtual assistant between you and your phone. LMK how it does when the memory has more than a month of data to sift through and dont ever have to worry about signal strength.
AI, pfft..
I sure don't need anything like this, but the Babelfish-type feature is cool🐸
What is rhe correct course of action?
Opting out won't be a passive exercise- with no action, our privacy will be ruthlessly violated.
Oppose at all fronts, would be my take. The public sheep already over-trust white coats. The faith placed in computation is equally wrong and damaging.
Does she go camping in that jacket? I bet it could do double duty as a smallish two man tent.
"it doesn't do anything until you engage with it"
Like an NPC.
This is great, have people addicted to phones be able to look around for once when they are walking or driving.