Harvard dropouts to launch 'always on' AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation | TechCrunch
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After developing a facial-recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and doxing random people, two former Harvard students are now launching a startup that makes smart glasses with an always-on microphone.

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.

      • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        15 hours ago

        I wish someome would ELI5 media literacy. So if I see an article, but I can read between the lines and know what it really means, or that it is sensationalized click bait, am I media literate? Or does it mean I am aware of trackers and surveillance on everything? Does it mean I know to check international news sources to be more well rounded?

        • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
          2·
          11 hours ago

          Well, there’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_literacy but that’s not written for children

          I don’t think, of your examples, trackers and surveillance are a big part of it. Understanding subtext and credibility are more relevant. Like, recognizing when a newspaper always uses passive voice when cops do bad (eg: “man killed after violent police encounter” vs “police fatally shoot man waiting at bus stop”), but active voice for other people (eg: “Looters destroy small business shops” vs “Downtown shops damaged during anti-corruption protests”)

          Also in fiction, being able to take away more than just the plot. Like you can read Dracula as just a book about a guy that bites people, but there are way more ways to read it. When someone makes a movie out of the story, notice what parts they keep, emphasize, and drop.

    • root@aussie.zoneEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      Black mirror is no longer sci-fi. It is slowly becoming a documentary. - Louis Rossman

    • phase@lemmy.8th.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      People missed those are warnings. They have no imagination so they took those as advices or even manuals. In a sense, they learnt.