Is the future of AI an omnipresent "voice in the head" that you can't get away from?
One apparent "AI expert" is confidently predicting what seems to me to be one of the most nightmarish AI futures being predicted by futurists, where we are forced by the circumstances of our society (social pressures and big corporate influences) to allow a malign generative AI influence to enter our lives and at least partially control us. Something that could most realistically be termed a parasitic and controlling entity.
I want absolutely no part of this - I'm opting out.
https://bigthink.com/the-future/the-whis...your-head/
(This post was last modified: 2024-10-09, 12:50 AM by nbtruthman. Edited 1 time in total.)
One apparent "AI expert" is confidently predicting what seems to me to be one of the most nightmarish AI futures being predicted by futurists, where we are forced by the circumstances of our society (social pressures and big corporate influences) to allow a malign generative AI influence to enter our lives and at least partially control us. Something that could most realistically be termed a parasitic and controlling entity.
I want absolutely no part of this - I'm opting out.
https://bigthink.com/the-future/the-whis...your-head/
Quote:"Within the next few years, an AI assistant will take up residence inside your head. It will do this by whispering guidance into your ears as you go about your daily routine, reminding you to pick up your dry cleaning as you walk down the street, helping you find your parked car in a stadium lot, and prompting you with the name of a coworker you pass in the hall. It may even coach you as you converse with friends and coworkers, giving you interesting things to say that make you seem smarter, funnier, and more charming than you are. These will feel like superpowers.
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Within the next few years, an AI assistant will take up residence inside your head. It will do this by whispering guidance into your ears as you go about your daily routine, reminding you to pick up your dry cleaning as you walk down the street, helping you find your parked car in a stadium lot, and prompting you with the name of a coworker you pass in the hall. It may even coach you as you converse with friends and coworkers, giving you interesting things to say that make you seem smarter, funnier, and more charming than you are. These will feel like superpowers.
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Whatever we call this technology, it is coming soon and will mediate all aspects of our lives, assisting us at work, at school, or even when grabbing a late-night snack in the privacy of our own kitchen. If you are skeptical, you’ve not been tracking the massive investment and rapid progress made by Meta on this front and the arms race they are stoking with Apple, Google, Samsung, and other major players in the mobile market.
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The first of these devices is already on the market — the AI-powered Ray-Bans from Meta.
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Of course, everyone else will be “augmented” too, creating an arms race among the public to embrace the latest features and functions. This is the future of mobile computing. It will transform the bricks we carry around all day into body-worn devices that see and hear our surroundings and covertly whisper useful information and friendly reminders at every turn.
Most of these devices will be deployed as AI-powered glasses because they give the best vantage point for cameras to monitor our field of view, though camera-enabled earbuds will be available too. The other benefit of glasses is that they can be enhanced to display visual content, enabling the AI to provide silent assistance as text, images, and realistic immersive elements that are integrated spatially into our world.
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