- Meta is apparently working on glasses with always-on ai
- It may recognize people’s faces and remind you of things you forget
- Existing glasses apparently have all the same sensors but too little battery to the feature worth being worth
Meta’s next smart glasses may always look with a new AI that can track everything you do.
It is, according to a leak from the information (behind a Paywall) that describes two pairs of specifications that the company is working on, according to Insiders.
Internal codename Aperol and Bellini, the two pairs of specifications would contain a new live AI. You start it with a command that “Hey Meta, Start Live AI,” and the glasses would begin to record your every movement.
This includes being able to recognize people with face recognition and to remind you of things like your house keys if the glasses saw you forgotten them.
The current Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses models are apparently already filled with the sensors they need to pull the same business of AI.
Unfortunately, those who are familiar with Meta’s tests with the existing glasses have said that the feature cuts their battery life to just 30 minutes, which is not ideal.
Meta’s current focus is reportedly to have its in-development glasses-and a pair of meta-ear plugs, which allegedly also boast cameras and super-measurement software drive for hours on a single charge with this feature turned on.
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In many ways I can see the benefit of this always living AI assistant. Anyone who has locked out wants them to have had a small software assistant who reminded them to pick up their keys before leaving home.
At the same time, it sounds like a nightmare in privacy.
People who point something nervous to my meta-beam glasses and ask, “Are those who are occupying us right now?” Always seem to relax when I show them that they are off or explain that they are only registered when they are instructed, as if I say, “Hi Meta, take a picture.”
Now imagine that I say instead, “yes, they have recorded you all the time.” I imagine I would lose a few teeth.
The report’s report also suggests that Meta has reworked its privacy and security policy to accelerate innovation, which in connection with the huge amounts of data this Live AI will collect is not something that fills me with joy. Personally, it seems that the time to tighten your privacy policies to ensure that sensitive data is not shared in a way it should not be.
I expect this AI to come up with some of Meta’s existing safety features, such as the lights on the glasses that are turned on while you record, and at least a feature you need to manually activate, but (call me old -fashioned) I can’t imagine I will ever want a camera to record my movement.
Others are likely to feel the same way about these potential new always AI glasses. Just look at setbacks against Microsoft’s always AI feature, Remember-and it was an app that just took computer shields.
As with all rumors, we have to wait and see what Meta officially advertises, but I hope the final product is not something as scary as it sounds right now.
