A look at the race for wearable AI as Meta adds multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban glasses and a source says OpenAI discussed adding GPT-4 with Vision to Snap devices
Next year's artificial intelligence battle is coming into focus—and it's all about glasses.
The Information Erin Woo
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Discussion
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@mostly.borrowed.ideas
@mostly.borrowed.ideas
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Amazon entered the smart glasses race with their own Alexa enabled glasses. A big missing piece (vs Meta's smart glasses) is you cannot take images or record videos with it. The casualty from current generation of smart glasses is likely AirPods. …
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@cosmic.blue
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huge news for anyone in the market for Facebook-flavored dad shades that lie to you [embedded post]
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@julesterpak
Jules Terpak
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A trend has been going on with the Ray Ban Meta smart glasses the past two weeks on TikTok. One video has 123 million views — many others have millions It's unclear if it organically happened amongst those with large followings after one person's video went crazy, or if there's..…
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@nirvahna_
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Imagine employees/customers in stores just looking at a product and knowing it's price. Imagine getting directions/search while driving. Imagine the possibilities for blind people. we're getting there.
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@leefcallender
Lee Callender
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@MKBHD trying out our feature. We put in extra effort to comprehend characters and text, glad to see it recognized. More improvements around the corner, join the Early Access Program!
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@teslavangelist
@teslavangelist
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If AI can describe scenes from a photo, could it understand driving scenarios better than FSD does now?
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@l_aidback
@l_aidback
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these smart glasses will be a game changer for the visually impaired.
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@_bloodbones
@_bloodbones
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Basic right now, but it feels like a new paradigm. Something that is always on vs you taking out your phone, opening chatgpt feels way different... There is something big here for sure.
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@melusi_baloyi
Melusi Baloyi
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Is there a use case for these glasses @MKBHD for someone who is blind and might get instructions navigating the road or even “sight seeing”? Obviously the battery will have to be solid to allow for this?
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@methekarthik
Karthik Kannan
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Everyone's losing their mind over the “new” Meta “Multimodal AI Glasses”. I'm here to say it's already been out and round for 3 years. We, @LetsEnvision have been building an AI-powered glasses for blind & low vision people since 2020. Check this profile by @BusinessInsider [vide…
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@anissagardizy8
Anissa Gardizy
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Next year's artificial intelligence battle is coming into focus—and it's all about wearable AI devices. Even Amazon is getting in on the fun. Earlier this year, the Alexa team discussed building a new device capable of running multimodal AI https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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@jmdenisme
Jean-Marc Denis
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I have been testing the Ray-Ban Meta Glasses for a while and I have to say that they are quite impressive. This feature to get Meta AI to answer questions about what you can see is going to be a game changer. I tried them in a park and wanted so badly to tell me which species of.…
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@steph_palazzolo
Stephanie Palazzolo
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The next AI battleground? Wearables. Here's what all the major players are doing when it comes to building AI-powered glasses, pins and headsets. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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@mkbhd
Marques Brownlee
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I've been trying Meta smart glasses' new multimodal AI - while it's pretty basic right now, it's still sick to see it combine what it sees from the camera with the language model to describe what it's seeing! Already solid for accessibility Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/.…
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@boztank
Boz
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Shout out to @mkbhd who shares an early look at the early access multimodal Meta AI assistant on the Ray-Ban Meta glasses here: https://www.youtube.com/.... We are working on answer length and making the trigger more conversational lol. In the meantime, I had to run my own very..…