> - Have a real time video conversation with an AI which can see what you see, translate between languages, read text, recognize objects, and interact with the real world.
Maybe it's me having an extremely low imagination, but that stuff existed for a while in the shape of google lens and the various vision flavor of LLMs, and I must have used them.... 3 times in years, and not once did I think "Gosh I wish I could just ask a question aloud while walking in the street about this building and wait for the answer". It's either important enough that I want to see the wikipedia page straight from google maps and read the whole lot or not.
> an AI which can read text, recognize objects, and interact with the real world.
I can already do that pretty well with my eyeballs, and I don't need to worry about hallucinations, privacy, bad phone signal or my bad english accent. I get that is certainly an amazing tools for people with vision impairments, but that is not the market Meta/OpenAI are aiming for and forcefully trying to shove it into.
So yes, mayyybe if I am in a foreign country I could see a use but I usually want to get _away_ from technology on vacation. So I really don't see the point, but it seems that they believe I am the target audience?
> I can already do that pretty well with my eyeballs, and I don't need to worry about hallucinations
I see. Perhaps your eyeballs missed the part where I said I'm blind?
The entire purpose of my comment was to push back against this idea that AI is stuck in 2022. It's weird and nonsensical and seems disingenuous, especially when I say "here are things I can do now that I couldn't do before" and the general response is "but I don't need to do those things!"
I think they did miss that, but to be fair you probably should have opened with that. It’s great that AI is enabling new use cases for blind/partially-sighted people! It’s encouraging to hear your perspective. At the same time, I’m sure you can imagine that the “killer app” for a blind person might seem less useful to a fully-sighted person. Imo there are still useful aspects, and you raise good examples, but the “second pair of eyes” aspect in particular is low-value for me.
I don't think they missed it. They addressed it in:
>>> I get that is certainly an amazing tools for people with vision impairments, but that is not the market Meta/OpenAI are aiming for and forcefully trying to shove it into.
That is an amazing use of the technology, and for sure something that should result in a pretty successful company - but not enough to bet the entire VC ecosystem on.
I think anyone saying AI has no use is being willfully ignorant, but like every hype cycle before it since mobile (the last big paradigm shift), IMO it's going to result in a few useful applications and not the paradigm shift promised.
Yes, you are right, I missed it at first. I read it as another message from AI evangelists that overpromise every aspects of AI.
After I finished writing the message I realized that you were blind but I was too enraged to do the right thing and scrape the message. When I came back to my senses the anti-procastination had kicked in and I couldn't edit it.
I am sorry losing my temper, and I am very happy that this tech is able to be useful to you, and I think that it is a fantastic use case.
Now I need to get off the internet, it just brings the worst in me.
Let's be calm. It is true that the technology has improved and certainly has new and improving uses. But we started out talking about business.
I think a charitable reading of this thread is simply: AI as a large technology leap is still developing a business case that can pay for all the hype. Not to mention it's operating cost.
been the impact of OpenAI and meta glasses / headsets on the blind community at large?
Based on your statements it seems that the real value of AI is increasing the participation rate of visually impaired people in the global workforce.
If Elon or Sam can convince governments and insurance companies to pay for AI-powered glasses as a healthcare necessity maybe there’s a pathway forward for AI and VC class after all.
…maybe that’s the real game plan for Marc Andreesen, Kanye, Elon and the others.
They’re not really Nazi’s just early adopters choosing the “innovative freedom” promised by Emperor Palpatine and the Sith over the slow march of the Senators of the Republic.
You describe new ways of feeding information into the model and new ways model presents outputs. Nothing radically changed in how model transforms inputs into outputs.
> Self-hosting hundreds of GBs of data isn't feasible
Why wouldn't it be feasible? Storage is cheap, backups are cheap. It's not for everyone, obviously, but for 20 EUR/month you can get a VM with a couple hundred GB of storage and 1TB of backups on a storagebox in hetzner.
Or have a raspberry pi with a 1TB SSD in your home, or both!
I use a laptop, desktop PC, phone, and 2 tablets at home. Another PC and laptop and tablet when I visit my parents.
Not all of them are mine, and it is _very_ annoying to have to login to a website on them. You have to go through the unlock flow on your own device (long and complicated password) to access the password, and then copy the site-specific password (usually long and complicated) to the new device.
It is a giant pain. I can understand why people wouldn't want to go through it.
As far as I can tell, there are SaaS ones, broken ones, no longer maintained ones, and the ones that don't work on multiple platforms. There's not one password manager I've heard of that didn't exhibit one or more of the above "features".
"Perfect is the enemy of good", but the effort around making informed choice makes not using password managers seem better.
I use proton pass (SAAS). I just figure I should be paying for core internet services like email, storage, passwords, calendars, etc. so that ideally my interests are aligned with my provider. I use the services on windows, android and linux regularly. So I can confirm that proton pass, email and vpn all work on those three operating systems. I cannot imagine they wouldn't work on MacOS.
Yes, you pay, but I see that as acceptable and expected for the service offered.
Where did you get that from? You are talking about millions of people scattered over hundreds of political entities over hundreds of years.
There might have been some commonalities, but certainly not anything like this rule.
The feudal laws of mostly Western Europe. Eastern serfdom has been much worse and much closer to slavery, however the serfs still had their house and share from the crops. The eastern European feudal lords, dukes, kings or emperors never had access to this much share of the wealth like ordinary billionaires today do.
It's not about displaying the names next to the reviews on GLassdoor.
It's about building an internal database of user profiles with their names. And they are apparently pretty aggressive, getting the names from support cases and third parties:
https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/about/terms/
> "We may update your Profile with information we obtain from third parties. We may also use personal data you provide to us via your resume(s) or our other services."
The worry is that when they get hacked, it will be possible to map real humans to reviews. Which is potentially going to be catastrophic for anyone who posted negative reviews. Not a good move from a website which is some sort
Hacking is not the most likely negative scenario. Your data is already in multiple hacked databases, anyway. You've already lost that fight. Even if Glassdoor gets hacked, the information they already have on you (email, place of employment) is enough to deanonymize you when combined with other hacked databases.
The most likely negative scenario is that it'll now be much easier for companies to uncover identities of people posting reviews about them on Glassdoor. HR inviting you for a "chat" due to a negative interview is what I'd be concerned about. As another commenter said already, this is phenomenally stupid from Glassdoor, because they're losing the remaining little trust people had on them for keeping their users anonymous.
Hum, our CEO said something along these lines at the last All Hands.
I don't really know where he got that... I always liked my coworkers and I had the chance to have consistently amazing managers, but I still left previous jobs because was bored to death or got a better opportunity career or money-wise.
There are definitely some types that only care about their colleagues and bosses (I talked to one in my team just recently), but that's probably not even the majority. These people probably tend to stay a loooong time so maybe they are more visible to the execs?
Well, that's the same for all documents. You can just make them up, it's not that hard with 5 minutes of photoshop.
But if there is a control and a manufacturer get caught lying about the provenance they are going to have a bad time (or the car manufacturer/battery resellers which didn't do their due diligence).
If you look at the list, even Brita doesn't claim that their pitcher filter the really nasty stuff. At most they "help to reduce". It looks like they are really designed only to remove the chlorine taste.
Their "Faucet Mount Filters" looks a bit more effective.
Maybe it's me having an extremely low imagination, but that stuff existed for a while in the shape of google lens and the various vision flavor of LLMs, and I must have used them.... 3 times in years, and not once did I think "Gosh I wish I could just ask a question aloud while walking in the street about this building and wait for the answer". It's either important enough that I want to see the wikipedia page straight from google maps and read the whole lot or not.
> an AI which can read text, recognize objects, and interact with the real world.
I can already do that pretty well with my eyeballs, and I don't need to worry about hallucinations, privacy, bad phone signal or my bad english accent. I get that is certainly an amazing tools for people with vision impairments, but that is not the market Meta/OpenAI are aiming for and forcefully trying to shove it into.
So yes, mayyybe if I am in a foreign country I could see a use but I usually want to get _away_ from technology on vacation. So I really don't see the point, but it seems that they believe I am the target audience?