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Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production (www.theverge.com)
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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

The AirPods’ cameras “aren’t designed” to snap photos or video but instead can take in “visual information in low resolution” that users can query Siri about, like asking the AI assistant what they should cook with the ingredients they have in front of them, according to Gurman. They may also use the cameras to help with things like turn-by-turn directions.

That doesn't sound "low-resolution" to me. Also, does anyone really trust them not to record the camera feed? It needs to be sent to the cloud for this thing to work, they're going to record it, and nothing is ever deleted.

Just because the user isn't given the images, doesn't mean the video isnt' recorded.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

"Aren't designed to" is very different from "designed not to".

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Not necessarily, you could compute embeddings on device, but that requires decent compute.

And embeddings are reversible and don’t preserve privacy. It’s not meaningfully better than video.

[–] parson0@startrek.website 2 points 4 hours ago

It's Apple, it will most likely run "on device" - so the iPhone the airpods are connected to in this case