Would you use AI wearables?
As SciAm writer Deni Béchard points out, AI tech has spread to almost every corner of our lives, except direct social interactions. That is, until now. Several tech companies like Apple and OpenAI are developing AI-powered wearable devices. Like all new tech there are many potential upsides, but also some serious concerns. Yes, it might be nice to have your wearable AI remind you of a person’s name, count your calories or even help you out with answers during a big work meeting. But privacy and ill intent are real worries. What are your thoughts about whether new wearable AI devices will go the way of Google Glass or take off?
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If I could be sure the info flowing to me was generated by me/ from my own records, AND NO info (about who I'm with or near; where I am; etc.) was flowing away from me, then maybe that would be reasonable on privacy grounds. However, that leaves aside the contribution/ responsibility/ consequences of data centers, and those issues are not clearly resolved.
It would take a lot of time living with such a device and a lot of critical evaluation of it’s responses, before you could begin to thrust it’s advises.
For ordinary enquiry into things you can look up in a lexicon or other places like that, it will be very useful. But otherwise, I think, they will over time become like a “yes man” when it has become trained by yourself via your daily interactions. In other words, it will reinforce your deeply held beliefs without you noticing, and regardless of whether those beliefs would hold up to your own standards when taken to extremes
I don't see much advantage to wearable tech over the smartphone I already always have with me. So far, the actual implementation has not lived up to the hype surrounding the use cases being made for it. I am also concerned over the privacy implications of providing a continuous feed of everywhere a person goes and everything they see to an opaque corporate entity and almost certainly to the government as well.
I do not need this technology. It’s just another nonproductive use of scientific advancement. My electric bill will soar so that people can play with a new toy.
There is absolutely no way I would give tech companies access to a continuous feed of everything I see and hear. I think it can be safely said that, at this point, only an idiot would do so.
I already have a watch that tracks and prompts me. That’s enough. The more we have and use devices that try to add to our lives, the more I feel distracted from living my life. Already I want to discard my iPhone because of all the constant messages, requesting a survey them money, requesting an order, requesting information! Once you reply, the 10 more per hour show up. Getting 50/hour is already mind blowing. No more unwanted AI, already just the phone updates are too intrusive.
No, I am not interested in this space at all. I do have tech wearables (Smart Watch), but the AI component is totally lost on me.
No, I wouldn't wear an AI anything. IMHO, the whole AI 'movement' is the first stage in what Doctorow called enshitification. Look it up. Moreover, my trials with AI revealed that they do not do mathematical calculations themselves, they do not even recognize the different meanings of calendsr dates, such as 800 BC versus AD 800, and when they formulate answers, they just copy the first few notions that seem to addres your question. That sort of "intelligence" is what I grew to expect from lazy, crooked college freshmen. AI is not intelligent. It's modeled on human behavior because it's designed and manufactured by humans. Try it yourself by asking the any AI the same question repeatedly and comparing the answers. Try asking it to calculate a mathematical word problem. You'll be surprised andcinformed. It's not AI, it's BS. And they remember each and every question you ever asked. What's that all about? It's treachery.
Never, I distrust and disdain the tech entrepreneurs who put profits before humanity; these developers and AI itself have no ethics or understanding of human culture.
I've long been intrigued by devices like these, reading about them in various sci-fi books over the decades. I seem like the perfect demographic. However, I'm not ready to ask Meta into my life in this new way, given that they just burned me in VR--they acquired my favorite workout VR app, Supernatural, a few years ago, only to last week fire all the coaches and effectively kill the app for new content. Fool me twice and all that. https://www.wired.com/story/metas-layoffs-supernatural-fitness-users/
I travel to Japan frequently so a background device that translates spoken language and street signs without pulling out a hand held device would be very useful.
No, I would not. Never. I think they are ridiculous.
