Earlier this year, Microsoft added a new key to Windows keyboards for the first time since 1994. Before the news dropped, your mind might’ve raced with the possibilities and potential usefulness of a new addition. However, the button ended up being a Copilot launcher button that doesn’t even work in an innovative way.
Logitech announced a new mouse last week. I was disappointed to learn that the most distinct feature of the Logitech Signature AI Edition M750 is a button located south of the scroll wheel. This button is preprogrammed to launch the ChatGPT prompt builder, which Logitech recently added to its peripherals configuration app Options+.
Similarly to Logitech, Nothing is trying to give its customers access to ChatGPT quickly. In this case, access occurs by pinching the device. This month, Nothing announced that it "integrated Nothing earbuds and Nothing OS with ChatGPT to offer users instant access to knowledge directly from the devices they use most, earbuds and smartphones."
In the gaming world, for example, MSI announced this year a monitor with a built-in NPU and the ability to quickly show League of Legends players when an enemy from outside of their field of view is arriving.
Another example is AI Shark's vague claims. This year, it announced technology that brands could license in order to make an "AI keyboard," "AI mouse," "AI game controller" or "AI headphones." The products claim to use some unspecified AI tech to learn gaming patterns and adjust accordingly.
Despite my pessimism about the droves of AI marketing hype, if not AI washing, likely to barrage the next couple of years of tech announcements, I have hope that consumer interest and common sense will yield skepticism that stops some of the worst so-called AI gadgets from getting popular or misleading people.
Can't wait until the AI enhanced sex toys.
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That'd actually probably be a not-unreasonable application for machine learning, if you could figure out some kind of way to measure short-term biological arousal to use as an input. I don't know if blood pressure or pulse is fast enough. Breathing? Pupil dilation?
Like, you've got inputs and outputs that you don't know the relationship between. You have a limited number of them, so the scale of learning is doable. Weighting of any input in determining an output probably varies somewhat from person to person. It's probably hard to get weighting data in person. Those are in line with what one would want to try doing machine learning on.
IIRC, vibrators tend to have peak effect somewhere around 200 Hz, but I'd very much be willing to believe that that varies from person to person and situation to situation. If one has an electric motor driving an eccentric cam to produce vibration, as game controllers do for rumble effects, then as long as the motor's controller supports it, you could probably train that pretty precisely, maybe use some other inputs like length of time running.
I don't know if it's possible to have a cam with variable eccentricity -- sort of a sliding weight that moves towards or away the outer edge of the cam -- but if so, one could decouple vibration frequency and magnitude.
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Looks like it exists.
https://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/main/imagesViewer_content.jsp?id=16182023&skipSearchBar=1
So that's an output that'd work with a variety of sex toys.
There's an open-source layer at buttplug.io -- not, despite the name, focusing specifically on butt plugs -- that abstracts device control across a collection of sex toys, so learning software doesn't need to be specific to a given toy, can just treat the specific toy involved as another input.
I'm sure that there's a variety of auditory and visual stimuli that has different effect from person to person and isn't generally-optimal today.
And, well, sex sells. So if one can produce something effective, monetizing it probably isn't incredibly hard, if that's what one would want to do.
EDIT: Actually, that variable-eccentricity cam is designed to be human- rather than machine-adjusted. That might not be the best design if the aim is to have machine control.
I couldn't get buttplug.io to work 😒