"The 'Whisperverse': The future of mobile computing is an AI voice inside your head."
I wasn't going to share this but then the Harvard students' video (below) came out, and I felt like the two go together somehow, so here you go.
"Within the next few years, an AI assistant will take up residence inside your head. It will do this by whispering guidance into your ears as you go about your daily routine, reminding you to pick up your dry cleaning as you walk down the street, helping you find your parked car in a stadium lot, and prompting you with the name of a coworker you pass in the hall. It may even coach you as you converse with friends and coworkers, giving you interesting things to say that make you seem smarter, funnier, and more charming than you are. These will feel like superpowers."
This is making me think of that famous quote from Douglas Adams:
"Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things." -- Douglas Adams
I'm 54 and didn't get the "against the natural order of things" itch at age 35, but... I find myself slipping into that "against the natural order of things" feeling on this one. Do I really want an "AI assistant" taking up residence in my head? The idea doesn't actually seem appealing.
"Most of these devices will be deployed as AI-powered glasses because they give the best vantage point for cameras to monitor our field of view, though camera-enabled earbuds will be available too. The other benefit of glasses is that they can be enhanced to display visual content, enabling the AI to provide silent assistance as text, images, and realistic immersive elements that are integrated spatially into our world."
Oh, right, that's why Google Glass did so well -- oh wait, it failed. Maybe it was just ahead of its time? And this time the idea will work?
"Whatever we call this technology, it is coming soon and will mediate all aspects of our lives, assisting us at work, at school, or even when grabbing a late-night snack in the privacy of our own kitchen."
This is like how they told us Twitter was for telling the world what you ate for lunch, and it actually turned out to be for fighting about politics. Now they tell us we'll have AI assistants taking up residence in our heads for assisting us with our late-night snacks, but it'll actually turn out to be for fighting about politics. (Don't ask me how. But the purpose of most technology always ends up being fighting about politics.)
The "Whisperverse": The future of mobile computing is an AI voice inside your head
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The first of these devices is already on the market — the AI-powered Ray-Bans from Meta.Louis Rosenberg (Big Think)
Owl and Woodpecker are neighbours, but not friends. Owl does nothing but complain about Woodpecker’s pecking, which interrupts his daytime sleeping. The feud between the two gets so big, and the owl’s temper so foul, that the other forest animals try to intercede, but to no avail. Even a pair of hard-working beavers gnawing away at Owl’s tree trunk won’t get him to move. But Owl has an enormous change of heart when Woodpecker’s bravery, and his pecking, save Owl’s life.
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Creating Hell for Fun and Profit , , I – Suffer the Women and Children , , , , What becomes of unwanted children? Pimped out or outright sold for sadistic pleasures? Dying on broken streets of dise…Wind Song Myths
‘In one of the most urgent tasks of our lifetimes – stopping our government from continuing to arm Israel – we all have a role to play.’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/18/jews-shut-down-new-york-stock-exchnage-why
#StopArmingIsrael #JewishVoiceforPeace
Go ahead. Slow-blink at your cat. It will start a non-verbal conversation
#caturday
https://www.sciencealert.com/study-confirms-a-simple-trick-to-communicate-with-your-catStudy Confirms a Simple Trick to Communicate With Your Cat : ScienceAlert
Cats have a reputation for aloofness (and flooffiness), but if you and your feline friend aren't bonding, maybe you're just not speaking their language.Michelle Starr (ScienceAlert)
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And other cautionary tales about the fate of those who back fascists from the Keppler Circle filesHeidi Siegmund Cuda (Bette Dangerous)
In between scribbles...
Rustling leaves
The autumn breeze is
a crisply dry woodwind
The last sunlight
saluting at the horizon
Mirrored by stars
Flickering patterns
The light plays with foliage
Hitting my paper
Now the sky is black
But I remember
the white cherry blossoms
While errantis giggle
when rhododendrons snore
which awakens the heather
Cold night against my skin
The unguarded room
& the sound of the last mosquito of the year
An October mosquito
hatched in the climate heat
pokes its proboscis into my arm, as a form of thanks
Fragments
Time capsules from eons
Grain of sand in my hand
Grains of sand words which create handles
i grab
terms with -
Which opens new doors..
TsL 2024
