Amazon is acquiring Bee, which sells a $50 device that resembles a Fitbit, is always listening, transcribes conversations, and serves up daily AI summaries
Those devices are going to be a legal nightmare in places that require two party consent for recordings.
Will the ai summary of my day be I watched the Lord of the rings all day or a description of what happened in LOTR as if I lived it
I would genuinely like to know this
It boggles my mind how people hear about something like that, and think anything other than, "ex-fuckin-cuse me? It does what? Get the fuck away from me!"
I hate that I actually kinda want that functionality, just in a fully offline and under my control kinda way. No chance a company will develop that for me
I see the appeal, but it's still a privacy nightmare if self-hosted.
It'd not just be recording you. It'd be recording everyone around you.
The main reason I think companies are getting into this, is it gives them an excuse to data-scrape reality, since they've exhausted what was available online.
Future training data will be everything these "customers" have ever said or heard.
I feel the same way, and I'm convinced we're not too far away from that becoming a reality with FLOSS options. I don't trust myself to securely self-host, but I'm excited for when phones are powerful enough and the models efficient enough to run it all on my phone
Fully offline transcription and summarizing, auto-deleting the actual recordings and transcripts as soon as possible, and in a physical location, with a schedule, and quick "off" button to ensure it only captures work conversations/meetings. That would be useful.
I'd love to have everything I say and see recorded and saved to a harddrive to be used to train an AI version of myself to live on after I die
Ai truly personal. Yeah, by recording EVERYONE who are around the person wearing this shit on their wrist. I think they need to read a fucking dictionary on word "personal" coz they don't seem to understand it.
You masturbated for 90 minutes today.
...Down from 120 minutes each day last week. Great job!
Half of the happy bee family after a month: Ah, no, I didn't need this job anyway. So are you hiring?
Here is a probably not at all comprehensive list of open source smart watches/OS's you can check out.
The (re)pebble probably also falls in this category. It's a relaunched pebble after Google open sourced the original pebble os it acquired, but then didn't do anything with. It's the original pebble founder that is doing this relaunch (you can consider this both good and bad, but I'm sure his intentions are actually good).
It's of course a commercial product, but at least the software side is open. Battery should last a month (!). Display is always on and readable in daylight.
First of these devices should be about to ship soon, but new orders will take considerably longer.
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