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What kind of creepy engineers go to work for this company?
You've really got to be stupid to buy something like this, and especially from Facebook.
Bet you anything they're going to try to put it in phones, hell they probably already have.
The more I read about Meta, the more convinced I am the Epstein files contain video of an expressionless Zuck explaining to a woman that unless she chooses one of her children to die, they both do.
zuckerberg along with priscilla, thiel, musk ,bezos and other billionaires both sat a dinner with epstein.
This is one trying to take my job as a nurse. All I can say is, it ain't gonna work. You're never going to get an AI to ensure med compliance in bipolar and schizophrenia or get it to properly do affect and mood assessments for psych nursing. Might be useful for less high acuity cases that don't require a nurse, but in those sort of outpatient cases the whole point is you don't need this level of monitoring. I applaud the effort in reducing group home need for this population as well, but I also think that would be ineffective.
What will happen is they will sell it to your boss as a way to cut costs on labor, but will arrange things legally such that you are still responsible for the patients' wellbeing, so if the AI makes a mistake you get the blame.
Nurses quit. Go to the reddit nursing sub and see how often they talk about quitting over dangers to their license. They get anxiety about nonsensical stuff regarding that because it's beaten to us in nursing school. This, nobody's going to accept.
I hope so. Nurses have pretty good unions right?
I'm convinced that the only thing that will really save us from this sort of thing is labor organization.
Less unions in this case and more since nursing is governed by Boards that come from the profession it's very hard to have regulatory capture from outside the profession. There's places with strong unions and they're great but that's far from universal. And no BON is going to accept this shit as standard of care which means you really might lose your license once some "monitored" manic person goes off their meds with nobody paying attention and drives in circles in a city naked without drinking water all while you're charting that they're monitored. And no nurse wants to lose the ability to practice for some shit ass employer.
I reject the premise that you can determine someone's mood from their behavior.
Additionally, for someone who is actually depressed, having a device monitor you and prompt you with a tailored workout sounds like torture.
It wouldn't last a day.
It'll be worse than smart watches that tell you that you've been sat down for too long.
Yeah I've been sat down for too long, I'm at work you idiot device.
I ditched the smart watch when it told me I was sitting for too long while I told it I was going to sleep
Sleep is for the lazy. You should go for a jog instead of sleeping.
Not sure I’d want any company to collect data like this about me. I’m very sure that Meta is a company that I really don’t want to know these things about me.
Does that really need AI? The world is dystopian af, can't it just declaratively assert "you are sad" and be right just about as often as some expensive inference operation?
It needs AI, but not LLM. A simple neural net for recognising expressions, what is still AI, runs on a phone.
My argument was one of stochasticism. A broken clock is right twice a day, but a machine that says to 100% of FB users "you aren't happy" will be right more often than not.
No. In fact, I suspect that the whole health aspect is just a cover for their desire to surveil people all day every day. They will monitor all their interactions (including conversations with other people) and use all that data to one, train their AI, and two, improve marketing profits.
I am willing to bet that at some point a version of this will end up appearing in the assorted Meta apps that are pre-installed on many people's phones and be accidentally turned on by default.
THX-1138 comes to fruition.
Delete Your Accounts Today
Oh that's useful. I've often wondered what my current emotion is, I'm so glad technology has been created to help me with this issue.
Now I'm going to know if I'm currently happy or not. Of course I haven't got the technology yet so I'm not sure how I feel about this. I'll let you know.
AuADHD here, took an embarassing amount of time to figure out you were being sarcastic. XD
Genuinely though, between the emotional processing delays, and the heights of intensity and complexity they can reach, there could actually be a notable benefit if there was a tool that could warn us about impending feelings before they actually hit.
Like, sometimes these things would be quite useful for me. I'm someone who goes into fight or flight (often fight) when I receive a leas than positive email at work. Having something smart enough to interrupt me before I do something hasty and tell me to puss off for a couple of minutes first would be really useful. But a system like that can't ever live I'm the hands of someone I don't trust.
It's like immich. The idea of having an AI go through all your images and labeling them is something I usually balled at with google or meta, but when it's all local on my machine and I can turn it on or off at will makes all the difference.
ZUCKERBERGS journey to become HUMAN, because hes an android.
Billionaires will never be human, let alone a billionaire metal lizard.
Ignoring the main point of the article, there are a lot of people who need help taking their medication. A device that knows for sure whether they've taken their medication, and that will bug them to take it when they haven't, could make a huge difference in their quality of living.
Is there going to be a new patent trend where we file a patent and say it’s like doing this thing but it’s done with AI so there isn’t prior art? Like how the patent trolls did with business process but done with software?
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