by Tom (u/plebeius.eth) | 13mo ago
> just talk to yourself like a normal crazy person
that's what I do all the time unironically
>does it have wifi?
idk but why would it have wifi? That's bad design, it would drain the battery (eg. Rabbit r1, Humane Pin). I imagine it's a microphone, a battery, a SSD and a bluetooth LE module (which can transfer audio afaik), and a small processor just to store and transfer the audio recordings. Because it's $99. The processor doesn't need to include an expensive neural engine, they use your phone for that, with an app to generate the AI responses when you press the button on the necklace, then you get the notification (ie your dopamine dose for the day).
Btw, of course they say the recordings stay in the necklace storage which the usual lie, the app reads them and sends the data to the LLM provider they use, and analytics/ads companies as well I suppose, so mr Schiffmann can get as rich as possible.
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by u/12D3KooWBUjsfhdje7cbSwGnijoBWuRadJi8sct5xXqNCwB1DqYb | 13mo ago
Yea wifi as a data harvesting mechanism, looks like they got that figured out without building it straight in.
As a gadget it’s cool but it’s also weird and dystopian. If it’s harvesting conversation data it’s likely to be a lot more intimate/sensitive than usual data harvesting, or at least could be.
Talking to yourself is based as long as you’re nice to yourself.