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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/33445279

Two former Harvard students are launching a pair of “always-on” AI-powered smart glasses that listen to, record, and transcribe every conversation and then display relevant information to the wearer in real time. 

“Our goal is to make glasses that make you super intelligent the moment you put them on,” said AnhPhu Nguyen, co-founder of Halo, a startup that’s developing the technology. 

Or, as his co-founder Caine Ardayfio put it, the glasses “give you infinite memory.” 

“The AI listens to every conversation you have and uses that knowledge to tell you what to say … kinda like IRL Cluely,” Ardayfio told TechCrunch, referring to the startup that claims to help users “cheat” on everything from job interviews to school exams.

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[–] Talaraine@fedia.io 1 points 6 minutes ago

Pretty soon it will just be AI glasses talking to one another all the way down.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 hour ago

This tech could be life changing for blind or deaf people

Too bad it’s not being designed for them.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Remember in 2013 when we shouted down Google from doing this exact shit and now Harvard dropouts think they’ve cured cancer by “inventing” it?

God I fucking hate this planet

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 hours ago

Whoa. Too smart for Harvard?! Ultra slay! I'm gonna crypto invest in these bros yesterday!!

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 25 points 3 hours ago

what? they didn't make them powered by the blockchain? they're slipping.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 18 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

While Meta’s glasses have an indicator light when their cameras and microphones are watching and listening as a mechanism to warn others that they are being recorded, Ardayfio said that the Halo glasses, dubbed Halo X, do not have an external indicator to warn people of their customers’ recording. “For the hardware we’re making, we want it to be discreet, like normal glasses,” said Ardayfio, who added that the glasses record every word, transcribe it, and then delete the audio file. Privacy advocates are warning about the normalization of covert recording devices in public.... Under the hood, the smart glasses use Google’s Gemini and Perplexity as its chatbot engine, according to the two co-founders. Gemini is better for math and reasoning, whereas they use Perplexity to scrape the internet, they said.

These evil af people.

[–] ghostlychonk@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This will be extra fun when it hits two-party consent states and lawsuits roll out.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 25 minutes ago

"no reasonable expectation of privacy" in public spaces. Then you have multi-member living spaces. One member is against, others are for.

[–] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 hours ago

Don't worry, they're probably going to he big and stupid looking in reality. Plus, the obnoxious AI bro wearing them will be easy to identify.

[–] hagelslager@feddit.nl 31 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should

  • Dr. Ian Malcolm
[–] MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 hours ago

Per my recent submission to the galactic council (most recent human newspaper), they practically couldn’t save themselves even if they wanted to. Parasitizing their brains through my eyeglass network is a mercy, and now we are one voice planet wide.

  • Testimony of the Terran AI mesh network, parasitizing the original species via their ocular lobes.
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 23 points 3 hours ago

Harvard makes irl Super Villains.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Well this is how that technology is going to play out. For the first couple years it will be extremely helpful, to the point that the users stop depending on their own internal memories and their brains start pruning that functionality out. Then generative AI will be used to fill in missing details prior to the start of using them. And then they are going to slowly start feeding more and more lies until they are cheerful about being slaves.

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We do what we must because we can.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

For the good of all of us; except the ones who are dead.

[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 minutes ago

But theres no use crying over every mistake

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 2 points 1 hour ago

What a gaping, wretched asshole.