[HN Gopher] Om Malik - With AI, the Future of Augmented Reality ...
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       Om Malik - With AI, the Future of Augmented Reality Is in Your Ears
        
       Author : rmason
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2024-11-09 21:45 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | rmason wrote:
       | I am not exactly certain if I want my headphones interrupting my
       | train of thought as I walk down the street. But I would actually
       | like asking a question and getting an answer. An AI that
       | understood my preferences and my current location.
        
         | arisAlexis wrote:
         | Well Gemini with gmaps will do that very very soon
        
       | tracyhenry wrote:
       | couldn't take this article seriously considering it doesn't
       | mention Meta's Rayban smart glasses, which largely does what they
       | want already: a pair of glasses without visuals but with AI in
       | your ears
        
       | outside1234 wrote:
       | The thing is - how do they avoid getting Foursquared again by
       | Apple and Google respectively. Apple and Google can do the same
       | thing with voice and with their OS advantage, it will be seamless
       | and built in.
        
       | Melting_Harps wrote:
       | Says it all:
       | 
       | >OM: When I see "Her," I see two aspects to the movie. One is
       | very dystopian, and the other is that it is a love story. It was
       | a story of someone who was lonely and looked for a connection.
       | Silicon Valley has totally missed that part. Valley's missing
       | empathy gene is reinforced in how everyone talks about agents and
       | personal agents. So what is that more optimistic, more humanistic
       | future we can build from an AI perspective?
       | 
       | I can't think of a more pointless use-case of 'AI' than these
       | round-about ways to solve what seems to be the root-cause of all
       | of these 'moonshot' projects: people who build these tools lack
       | or are completely absent of social skills. (Never mind the
       | loneliness epidemic of Gen Z and Alpha who were born with the
       | modern Internet.)
       | 
       | I'm like many of you am an introvert by nature, I always had to
       | take 2-3 days off after a conference when I was a founder because
       | of the toll it took on me, but I can't think of anything other
       | than continuous exposure to have ever worked get over this
       | issue... but more importantly the fact that it is stuff like this
       | that continues to funnel money from VCs just make me think what
       | an absolute waste of capital takes place at this phase of this
       | technology.
       | 
       | The guy admits he builds the same thing over and over, and
       | assuming that this takes off I just can't help but affirm my
       | intuition that most of these usecases vary from useless to
       | complete vaourware.
       | 
       | We are so far away from the future where this tech can actually
       | be used to create models and train them to solve things like
       | climate change or even traffic, instead we are in the iterate the
       | 'pokemon go but with AI' phase... which I will remind you was an
       | ad-based venture from google.
       | 
       | We really need to create a new internet, the signal to noise
       | ratio ever since social media has been so abysmal.
        
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