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Here is a probably not at all comprehensive list of open source smart watches/OS's you can check out.
The (re)pebble probably also falls in this category. It's a relaunched pebble after Google open sourced the original pebble os it acquired, but then didn't do anything with. It's the original pebble founder that is doing this relaunch (you can consider this both good and bad, but I'm sure his intentions are actually good).
It's of course a commercial product, but at least the software side is open. Battery should last a month (!). Display is always on and readable in daylight.
First of these devices should be about to ship soon, but new orders will take considerably longer.
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Those devices are going to be a legal nightmare in places that require two party consent for recordings.
Will the ai summary of my day be I watched the Lord of the rings all day or a description of what happened in LOTR as if I lived it
I would genuinely like to know this
It boggles my mind how people hear about something like that, and think anything other than, "ex-fuckin-cuse me? It does what? Get the fuck away from me!"
I hate that I actually kinda want that functionality, just in a fully offline and under my control kinda way. No chance a company will develop that for me
I see the appeal, but it's still a privacy nightmare if self-hosted.
It'd not just be recording you. It'd be recording everyone around you.
The main reason I think companies are getting into this, is it gives them an excuse to data-scrape reality, since they've exhausted what was available online.
Future training data will be everything these "customers" have ever said or heard.
It'd not just be recording you. It'd be recording everyone around you.
This is what my brain already does (imperfectly). Am I a privacy nightmare? What's the difference between my brain and my personal recording machine?
No it doesn't.
You can vaguely record maybe one conversation you overhear in addition to one you are having yourself at the same time. You definitely can't record every conversation in a room you're in. A mic can't either, but three, four, half a dozen people talking? Yeah, you can definitely pull that out of a recording.
It's been shown that a laptop mic is enough to decode what someone is typing on a keyboard in the same room, just from the unique acoustic difference between each key.
So no. What your brain does is nowhere near the absolutely data-black-hole that a live mic in every room would be.
Once there's enough of these, you might even cross-reference multiple recordings to assemble complete conversations between people who didn't have one on themselves, or even spend the full duration of a conversation within range of the same recording device. That is something your head absolutely cannot do.
Oh yes. I have no doubt technology is better than my brain. I'm thinking more philosophically.
If I'm already recording the world with my brain, why can't I also record the world with my technology? A written diary is not illegal. Why should anything more advanced be illegal? Where is the line?
You can vaguely record maybe one conversation you overhear in addition to one you are having yourself at the same time.
What if an offline system transcribes and summarizes in memory, only saving summary text of key ideas, points, things needed to be remembered for later? (not looking for a legal opinion, just an ethical one).
Fully offline transcription and summarizing, auto-deleting the actual recordings and transcripts as soon as possible, and in a physical location, with a schedule, and quick "off" button to ensure it only captures work conversations/meetings. That would be useful.
I feel the same way, and I'm convinced we're not too far away from that becoming a reality with FLOSS options. I don't trust myself to securely self-host, but I'm excited for when phones are powerful enough and the models efficient enough to run it all on my phone
I'd love to have everything I say and see recorded and saved to a harddrive to be used to train an AI version of myself to live on after I die
Half of the happy bee family after a month: Ah, no, I didn't need this job anyway. So are you hiring?
