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Two former Harvard students are launching a pair of “always-on” AI-powered smart glasses that listen to, record, and transcribe every conversation and then display relevant information to the wearer in real time. 

“Our goal is to make glasses that make you super intelligent the moment you put them on,” said AnhPhu Nguyen, co-founder of Halo, a startup that’s developing the technology. 

Or, as his co-founder Caine Ardayfio put it, the glasses “give you infinite memory.” 

“The AI listens to every conversation you have and uses that knowledge to tell you what to say … kinda like IRL Cluely,” Ardayfio told TechCrunch, referring to the startup that claims to help users “cheat” on everything from job interviews to school exams.

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[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 8 points 22 hours ago

Is dropping out of Harvard considered something to brag about now?

[-] ckmnstr@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

In the tech bro / VC world "Harvard Dropout" equates to an MD title in a hospital. It's instant credibility.

[-] Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

TLDR; Two wannabe tech bros drop out of college to make yet another pair of smart glasses that will fail because nobody wants it.

[-] pieman@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago

literally them: 🤓

[-] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago

let me know when some dropout has an idea that's actually novel with sound engineering to back it up.

[-] SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Didn't Google try this and canned the project after nobody wanted to wear them or be recorded all the time?

[-] McWizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

There's a nice marketing explanation for it: https://youtube.com/shorts/moaeyoc2NI4

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Are they trying to evoke the Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs vibe by saying Harvard dropouts? Do they not realize that those are HORRIBLE people no one should ever look up to?

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago

If their glasses make you "super intelligent" when you put them on, then maybe they should put on their own product and finish school? That was my line of thinking, until I got to this part of the article:

Ardayfio called the glasses “the first real step towards vibe thinking.”

...and then I realized I have no idea what the hell they're talking about and stopped reading.

[-] porksnort@slrpnk.net 2 points 22 hours ago

What the Hell even is that?

[-] ComradePedro@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

You won't even have to think anymore, let AI think for you!, you'll be thoughtless and content

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

LTT did a hands on with a similar product, the Frame by Brilliant Labs. It sucked.
I do not expect this to fare any better.

[-] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 days ago

Are they "drop outs" or were they 'asked' to leave the establishment?

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 29 points 2 days ago

Thiel/Yarvin/ acolytes probably. I didn't look up who owns the VC funds but I expect no one not sociopathic.

[-] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 20 points 2 days ago

Does anyone not sociopathic own a VC fund?

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 16 points 2 days ago

"Vulture Capitalist" funds?

[-] birdwing 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ew, spyware. This def violates GDPR

[-] Libb@piefed.social 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

“Our goal is to make glasses that make you super intelligent the moment you put them on,”

A bit too late guys, as glasses have always made anyone look super intelligent. If that wasn't the case, why would anyone want to wear them? Because that's the only reason I wear mine, and certainly not because I'm as blind as a bat when I don't.

More seriously, their plan is to kill IRL conversations by making it impossible to trust anyone we would directly talk to?

Impressive. Sad & frightening, but impressive.

Also, I wonder who they will blame the moment they realize the hell they will have made of everybody's interactions?

edit: typos

[-] LePoisson@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Sucks for glasses wearers who are about to be having a lot of blurry conversations when everyone starts to tell everyone to take off their glasses before they talk.

[-] Libb@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Yep, the first thing I imagined: how shitty would it be to not be able to see who I'm talking to... because I value my (and other's) privacy I would ask them to not wear their glasses and would not be wearing mine ;)

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago

Seems likely to run afoul of two-party consent laws.

[-] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

“Move fast and break things” - arrogant fucks

[-] timmytbt@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

The sad thing is that people will buy this shit

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

i'm glad that my own vanity will prevent me from getting these. lol

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