Futurist Predicts AI-Powered 'Digital Superpowers' by 2030 (bigthink.com) 100
Unanimous AI's founder Louis Rosenberg predicts a "wave" of new superhuman abilities is coming soon that we experience profoundly "as self-embodied skills that we carry around with us throughout our lives"...
"[B]y 2030, a majority of us will live our lives with context-aware AI agents bringing digital superpowers into our daily experiences." They will be unleashed by context-aware AI agents that are loaded into body-worn devices that see what we see, hear what we hear, experience what we experience, and provide us with enhanced abilities to perceive and interpret our world... The majority of these superpowers will be delivered through AI-powered glasses with cameras and microphones that act as their eyes and ears, but there will be other form factors for people who just don't like eyewear... [For example, earbuds with built in cameras] We will whisper to these intelligent devices, and they will whisper back, giving us recommendations, guidance, spatial reminders, directional cues, haptic nudges, and other verbal and perceptual content that will coach us through our days like an omniscient alter ego... When you spot that store across the street, you simply whisper to yourself, "I wonder when it opens?" and a voice will instantly ring back into your ears, "10:30 a.m...."
By 2030, we will not need to whisper to the AI agents traveling with us through our lives. Instead, you will be able to simply mouth the words, and the AI will know what you are saying by reading your lips and detecting activation signals from your muscles. I am confident that "mouthing" will be deployed because it's more private, more resilient to noisy spaces, and most importantly, it will feel more personal, internal, and self-embodied. By 2035, you may not even need to mouth the words. That's because the AI will learn to interpret the signals in our muscles with such subtlety and precision — we will simply need to think about mouthing the words to convey our intent... When you grab a box of cereal in a store and are curious about the carbs, or wonder whether it's cheaper at Walmart, the answers will just ring in your ears or appear visually. It will even give you superhuman abilities to assess the emotions on other people's faces, predict their moods, goals, or intentions, coaching you during real-time conversations to make you more compelling, appealing, or persuasive...
I don't make these claims lightly. I have been focused on technologies that augment our reality and expand human abilities for over 30 years and I can say without question that the mobile computing market is about to run in this direction in a very big way.
Instead of Augmented Reality, how about Augmented Mentality? The article notes Meta has already added context-aware AI to its Ray-Ban glasses and suggests that within five years Meta might try "selling us superpowers we can't resist". And Google's new AI-powered operating system Android XR hopes to augment our world with seamless context-aware content. But think about where this is going. "[E]ach of us could find ourselves in a new reality where technologies controlled by third parties can selectively alter what we see and hear, while AI-powered voices whisper in our ears with targeted advice and guidance."
And yet " by 2030 the superpowers that these devices give us won't feel optional. After all, not having them could put us at a social and cognitive disadvantage."
Thanks to Slashdot reader ZipNada for sharing the news.
"[B]y 2030, a majority of us will live our lives with context-aware AI agents bringing digital superpowers into our daily experiences." They will be unleashed by context-aware AI agents that are loaded into body-worn devices that see what we see, hear what we hear, experience what we experience, and provide us with enhanced abilities to perceive and interpret our world... The majority of these superpowers will be delivered through AI-powered glasses with cameras and microphones that act as their eyes and ears, but there will be other form factors for people who just don't like eyewear... [For example, earbuds with built in cameras] We will whisper to these intelligent devices, and they will whisper back, giving us recommendations, guidance, spatial reminders, directional cues, haptic nudges, and other verbal and perceptual content that will coach us through our days like an omniscient alter ego... When you spot that store across the street, you simply whisper to yourself, "I wonder when it opens?" and a voice will instantly ring back into your ears, "10:30 a.m...."
By 2030, we will not need to whisper to the AI agents traveling with us through our lives. Instead, you will be able to simply mouth the words, and the AI will know what you are saying by reading your lips and detecting activation signals from your muscles. I am confident that "mouthing" will be deployed because it's more private, more resilient to noisy spaces, and most importantly, it will feel more personal, internal, and self-embodied. By 2035, you may not even need to mouth the words. That's because the AI will learn to interpret the signals in our muscles with such subtlety and precision — we will simply need to think about mouthing the words to convey our intent... When you grab a box of cereal in a store and are curious about the carbs, or wonder whether it's cheaper at Walmart, the answers will just ring in your ears or appear visually. It will even give you superhuman abilities to assess the emotions on other people's faces, predict their moods, goals, or intentions, coaching you during real-time conversations to make you more compelling, appealing, or persuasive...
I don't make these claims lightly. I have been focused on technologies that augment our reality and expand human abilities for over 30 years and I can say without question that the mobile computing market is about to run in this direction in a very big way.
Instead of Augmented Reality, how about Augmented Mentality? The article notes Meta has already added context-aware AI to its Ray-Ban glasses and suggests that within five years Meta might try "selling us superpowers we can't resist". And Google's new AI-powered operating system Android XR hopes to augment our world with seamless context-aware content. But think about where this is going. "[E]ach of us could find ourselves in a new reality where technologies controlled by third parties can selectively alter what we see and hear, while AI-powered voices whisper in our ears with targeted advice and guidance."
And yet " by 2030 the superpowers that these devices give us won't feel optional. After all, not having them could put us at a social and cognitive disadvantage."
Thanks to Slashdot reader ZipNada for sharing the news.
Ive seen the future (Score:2)
https://humane.com/ [humane.com]
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Indeed. And that will remain the state of things for a long time, because LLMs will not be AGI and cannot be AGI. The mathematics used does not allow it.
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You got me to click on the link, but that didn't give me any insight into your comment. Care to clarify? My current guess is that you think we are headed in the wrong direction, and if so, then A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins might help you articulate your position more clearly.
Me? Right now I have two main takes on the mess we're getting ourselves into. One is that containment must fail because a (malevolent) machine that is smarter than us would hide that fact until it was too late--and using it to wr
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LLMs have no persistent state that would even allow your hallucination to be true.
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Please read what I (or Jeff Hawkins) wrote, not what you imagine is most convenient for whatever you think you are trying to say. Yeah, I know the normal interaction behavior on Slashdot is to have an axe handy and look for targets...
Me? I have at least a fistful of pet axes.
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Sorry, but your unfounded hallucinations may have you scared, but they are not relevant to me because I actually understand the subject at hand.
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NAK
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our future is to be owned by those who own the AIs and everything else, after all ownership is control
you didn't really think this was a democracy, did you?
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you simply whisper to yourself, "I wonder when it opens?" and the ai will tell you...
Or you could look at the store where they almost always display opening hours prominently or take a few seconds to look at your phone. Is cutting down a few seconds worth all of this investment from society and the bother of buying, registering and wearing one of these Ai devices? For me that's a hard no.
Also if I have firends/employees who use AI to coach them to be more compelling and persusive while they interact with m
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In case you missed my point I'm just gonna leave this here:
https://www.theverge.com/24126... [theverge.com]
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buying the $50 clip that makes it easier to attach to a waistband or a bag strap
over-hyped expensive electronic garbage that copies Apple's ripoff economics.
What does it use for training data? (Score:2)
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They will steal anything they can get their hands on to get that training data. Again.
Pewpew (Score:2)
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Homelander, get real, you're just a comic book character.
Not by 2030, no way. (Score:4, Interesting)
2045, maybe. And that too a big IF.
People don't want it, it's not even worth the cognitive load to remember to wear it. Plus, and this is sad .. they may face social rejection.
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No. It is completely unpredictable, because LLMs cannot do it and no other known AI approach can do it. May be 20 years (the bare minimum for something fundamental new, no, LLMs are not new), may be 100 years, maybe "never". Nobody honest and smart can make a prediction here. I guess this "futurist" (a.k.a. "hallucinator") lacks both these qualities.
Depends on the "Superpowers" (Score:4, Interesting)
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It depends on the superpowers they are thinking about. Nowadays some people seem to regard the ability to do basic mental arithmetic, read maps, recall basic geography and general knowedlge etc. as superhuman powers and current AI systems could easily provide a verbal interface to do all of those giving you all the superpowers of the generation X-men (and women).
This. Using technology to perform basic cognitive tasks is not a superpower. Instead of "digital superpowers", TFA should have used the phrase "digital learning disabilities".
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It won't matter if the People do not want it. It will simply get implemented and you will not be able to avoid it. The AI-niks do not care what you want.
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2045, maybe. And that too a big IF.
People don't want it, it's not even worth the cognitive load to remember to wear it. Plus, and this is sad .. they may face social rejection.
Hmmm. You sound like you might be channeling a buggy whip maker at the turn of the last century. He watches a Ford Model T roll by with a family on board enjoying a post-church Sunday drive in the country and derisively dismisses it as impractical, it will never catch on. Five years later, needing to actually eat and pay the rent, he's relocated to Dearborn and is working on a Model A assembly line in the River Rouge complex. History shows that technology evolves quickly, and cultural acceptance often f
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Eyeglasses have indispensable and clear utility -- throughout the day you need to read things. As do smartphones --you need it because people may need to reach you or you want to look up stuff. AR glasses though, I don't encounter any situations where there's a compelling need. I could see it sometimes useful in a few contrived professions (police officer, fireman, salesman (ugh), mechanic (for interactive instructions or how-to guide -- though a smartphone can usually suffice), plumber, etc.). I still thin
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And think of the potential use cases. Imagine being able to tag every face at a party with "avoid like the plague" or (conversely) "get contact info." How about being able to summon past conversations at will to call out shifting or outright contradictory positions? Or fact-checking idiot party trolls in real time? I think that right there is going to be a killer app, one that I would happily pay for. YMMV, of course, but I think you can see socially where this tech is headed.
Some of that sounds pretty terrifying. Have you considered the unintended consequences of everyone using an AI that tells them to avoid certain people like the plague? That means an awful lot of people who get ghosted by society at large and fall through the cracks. I mean, you said it, but you provided absolutely no criteria for why they were to be avoided like the plague, just the assumption that the AI has good reasons for it. What if those reasons are flawed?
Consider another example. The AI tells you wh
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Your entire comment relies on hypothetical doomsday scenarios that are more about stoking fear than engaging in constructive dialogue. yeah, we should approach AR with caution and foresight, but rejecting it outright based on speculative risks ignores its transformative potential. Paradigm shifts are not for the faint of heart, and your unwillingness to embrace change while clinging to exaggerated fears reflects a resistance to progress, not a genuine critique. You are a troll, or a drama queen chicken li
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Your entire comment relies on hypothetical doomsday scenarios that are more about stoking fear than engaging in constructive dialogue. yeah, we should approach AR with caution and foresight, but rejecting it outright based on speculative risks ignores its transformative potential. Paradigm shifts are not for the faint of heart, and your unwillingness to embrace change while clinging to exaggerated fears reflects a resistance to progress, not a genuine critique. You are a troll, or a drama queen chicken little claiming the AR sky is falling. I've made up my mind which one you are; I will let others decide for themselves...
Meanwhile, your reply to my comment relies on putting words in my mouth, not going by what I wrote. Where, for example, did I say that we should reject it outright. I simply highlighted some of the dangers, which is in fact engaging in constructive dialog. The entire point is that we should approach it with "caution and foresight" but for some reason you feel the need to turn that around on me and claim that I am being some sort of Luddite about it or something. I am fine with embracing change, I just insis
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Continued from the previous reply
I have considered those, and I think those are great, and obvious applications of the technology. However, I also considered exactly those points for the Internet decades ago. I was more naive back then and only thought about the good points like improving access to information, enabling more inclusive communication and assisting those with disabilities. Now, those things did come to pass. The Internet helps with all of those things. However, it also enables the massive spre
Not a futurist (Score:2)
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Indeed.
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Hey there, I'm some random guy, let me invent some predictions for you: Space elevators, monorails, electricity too cheap to meter, AI-power quantum blockchain thingies, and dogs and cats living together.
Do I get my front-page story too?
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Well, I've seen dogs and cats living together, so that one's correct. And I've ridden a monorail, so that one exists. If you've got your house powered by solar cells you probably won't meter it, so that one's a strong probable.
That these things don't resemble your mental image of what they should be doesn't mean the don't exist. (E.g., monorails haven't solve the switching problem, and don't have any real advantages. [I strongly suspect they *could* solve the switching problem if there were any strong r
By 2036 ... (Score:2)
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It already has. Remember that a lot of the training data is already enshittified and that will only get worse. Sure, at this time there are no "additional" ads on top, but too many results are not much better it their connection to the actual truth.
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"`additional' ads on top".
Now there's a thought. Ads in the middle of other ads. And they could be nested to arbitrary, finite depth. The advertisers of the world would have multiple Os over this.
And then the Ad Wars would start. Ads breaking into other ads, or hijacking the original ads. And for the truly adventurous ad slinger, the usurping ad could blast the victim ad into browser pixels with sound effects.
Soon, a game company will make a game that allows you to pursue ads with the Ad Cannon, able to blo
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Do yourself a favor learn to differentiate nerds and grifters.
I think part of the issue today is that there is a rather large overlap between the grifters and the nerds. Nerds who learned the grift, or grifters who were nerdly. Either way. You mix nerd with grift and you get, "Everyone will pay for my service that forces them to wear my nerd devices to force-feed them ads when they ask for the time or for information about that person approaching in the distance that better be wearing their nerd device so that I can track them. LOOK AT MY DREAM! ISN'T IT AMAZING!"
Mean
Futher along... (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re:Futher along... (Score:5, Insightful)
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No dog is as dumb as a tech bro.
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Another example of what I was complaining about: All you did was insult me.
So you would only accept an answer which enthusiastically supports your point? That will be a boring discussion!
Your reply makes blindingly obvious that you are not interested in an honest discussion. So quit complaining!
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You are mistaken. It is not an attack. It is an analysis. And your answer just confirmed it.
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Do not read anything into moderation scores. I often go down to low scores, only to get up again a day or two later. And I have been posting as "excellent" karma since 2 weeks or so after I opened my account here a _long_ time ago. There are just some people deep in denial that do not want to hear what I say. Since they do not have any rational way to react, they mod me down whenever they have mod-points. Not that it does anything to my karma.
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What you talk about would be great if you could buy it in the knowledge it had been created by teams with no profit motivation and agenda to push and then use it without it prov
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Re: Futher along... (Score:5, Insightful)
Siri, Alexa, hey Google have tried to flesh out these scenarios and illustrate the devilish difficulty in making it usable. The number of variables in the real world defy the ability of the tools to really understand your usage context. It's a non trivial problem that futurists can wave their hands at, and say "magic happens here"...
The negativity comes from seeing the graveyard of failed attempts. Turns out magic is hard to do.
Also, look at how trivial the examples are. Store hours?
Also, look at the interfaces. Talking is a low bandwidth and vague way to communicate.
Finally, the greedy and cynical hyper commercialization, inserting advertisements, and funneling you towards making purchases as the implied primary use case
It's surveillance and advertising dressed up as something good for you.
Perhaps that helps understand the negativity.
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Amen! I was going to comment on the inevitable crappiness of the actual experience resulting from these things and you hit the nail on the head.
There's a reason that exception handling is 80% of a codebase, and it's the same reason "Full Self Driving" still needs a person overseeing the driving.
I was in the car the other day with my brother, and my nephew had to yell at dashboard 3 times to get Spotify to play the song he was asking for. Imagine that kind of failure ratio with these "superhuman autonomous
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You make some interesting points, but...
You're really asking for a beating with a comment like that. I actually rtfa. It's a retread of ideas that some 'asshole' trotted out about 20 years ago at a Bell Northern Research presentation that I attended. People on the front end of this type of tech are always trying to come up with viable use cases.
Well, yeah, big ideas like spaceman375's are bound to echo earlier onesâ"that's how innovation works. Today's outlandish concepts are often yesterday's retreads, refined and iterated on until they actually work. Sure, viable use cases are hard to nail down early on, but writing off all of AR and AI because of a bad Bell Northern pitch is like dismissing electric cars because GM's EV1 didn't pan out in the '90s. Sometimes it's just not the right timeâ"until i
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Do any of your points feature anything other than motivational rhetoric? Serious question.
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First about The Vision.
What struck me about the article was the similarity to the BNR presentation. How so little has changed in 20 years, or how little progress on that vision has occurred. The examples seem so trivial. You can't read the store hours off the sign? So as you think, the AI replies with the answer? Honestly, that is too much technology for too little value, imho. So I'm saying t
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Thank you for your thoughtful reply. You haven't changed my mind about anything, but bring up some very good points. [snip]
You are quite welcome. Nice to have a conversation about this, and I appreciate your willingness to engage thoughtfully.
You bring up an important critique—that some visionary use cases feel trivial. I get where you're coming from. "Store hours" isn’t exactly going to blow anyone’s mind, and I agree that overpromising on thin use cases feels like tech trying too hard to sell itself. That said, I think these examples are chosen for their simplicity—they’re the gateway to more sig
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I was a software tool builder for a lot of my career. So, code generators, basically. You press buttons on an interface, (the specification) and then my code would go and generate a bunch of lower level code. I usually wrote the UI's as well. Something like that, so that gives me the insight into tools that I think I have.
<old timer blathers on, make a cup of coffee or...just ignore me, I'm getting a bit philosophical>
Loss of skills
When the AI/LLMs hit the m
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ha ha , yeah, too bad nobody listens to us!!
Yeah, I know the feeling. But -- a young barista at my favorite coffee shop once told me she loved listening to regulars like us when we got deep into discussions—she said we’re like a podcast that she can tune into or out of at will. That’s a pretty good analogy for these kinds of conversations. People do listen when the topic is interesting or provocative. Sometimes even random customers chime in with, “I couldn’t help but overhear” Those moments remind me that people
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natural enemies... Ha ha.. sure, who didn't I piss off? I got along well with operations people and started there, building batch cobol jobs with JCL decks (card decks!!)... I do mostly secure IP networks now and a lot of linux system administration. Super funny to hear a barista speaking in today's vernacular: chatting with friends at a cafe is like a
Why corporations/governments DON'T use open source.
So th
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very amusing and thought provoking.. lots to refute there :-).. actually not that much
I try to stay on the rational side. Not always successful, but it really helps when the person you are talking to isn't trying to troll you or start a self-serving flamewar. I encourage you to call me out -- you are polite and articulate.
natural enemies... Ha ha.. sure, who didn't I piss off? I got along well with operations people and started there, building batch cobol jobs with JCL decks (card decks!!)... I do mostly secure IP networks now and a lot of linux system administration. Super funny to hear a barista speaking in today's vernacular: chatting with friends at a cafe is like a ... podcast!
Interesting. Batch COBOL jobs with JCL decks to secure IP networks and Linux sysadmin work echoes my own trajectory --I went from tutoring psych and economics majors trying to figure out how to get their SPSS programs to produce usable outputs while I was an undergrad, to
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It seems a bit late for that though
Yeah, punch cards were on the way out when I started in 1980 for Dept of Defence here in Canada. We would all queue up for access to TSS (Time Sharing System)... i.e. a dumb terminal to the 360 mainframe. The future looked so great at that time. But I actually did use punch cards because I was just a student running batch jobs for the CFSS (Candian Forces Su
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Damn. Why did I bother to post? While I was writing it, there were five more posts: every one was a sour, cynical rejection of any possibly positive aspect to this story. Folks like that are why slashdot is a has-been. Assholes with nothing to say dragging down the discussions because of course their (lack of) opinion is so important. Idiots.
You're dreaming of a future where these devices won't be used by the corporations and owner class to control and manipulate us, while we're living through a time where those shitty little computers in our pockets are being used to manipulate and control large swaths of the population that aren't bright enough to realize they are being controlled and manipulated. You're envisioning a utopia that will never be. Us cynical assholes are looking at our current reality and seeing yet another digital leash, this o
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Once you can kill the sensory inputs of a person and feed him whatever hallucination your degenerative "AI" has come up with, it is game over for that person, it is, to use a known trope, the first Matrix, and not anything "superhuman".
If you believe that Elona's chip will feed you an enhanced version of the world and not a bunch of sensory lies that make you a slave of Shpace Yikes, you're deluded.
Re:Futher along...uplifting (Score:2)
So you're talking about uplifting humanity...or parts of it?
I think that that would be easier to do with an upload, and by the time the techniques you describe are available, non-destructive uploads will inherently be possible (if, perhaps, a bit low resolution).
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That would have to be coupled with gene editing. Without changes in DNA, I'm not sure something is a new species. Our species and certain individuals probably do need gene editing. For example, if we find out there are certain genes that make a person depraved or malicious, we'd want that edited out. Same with cognitive issues. Is that eugenics? I have no idea, but it's not fair to compare it to the eugenics that involved murdering or sterilizing people.
"Futurist" is a word I haven't heard in a long tim (Score:2)
We are trending back to the '70s it seems. What's next, bell bottom jeans and corduroy slacks?
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Really? A few years ago, online shops would ensure your email received weekly news from The Futurist, that you didn't ask for. Today's prediction is a sex dream, that AR will enable him to tell you what to know and what to do.
More Traditional Name (Score:2)
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Well, translating "soothsayer" into modern English, "truth teller", might help. "Prophet" might be more accurate, though, if you're envisioning the AI as their god.
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Also, there's technically no actual real snakes to extract oil from inside most computers.
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That's ok. The only snakes that had oil that was useful according to (possibly correct) traditional medicine are one species that lives in China. How that got generalized I don't know. Supposedly the oil from that one species *does* reduce the pain of arthritis. (But cayenne + oil also works, and it cheaper.)
yeah but (Score:2)
where's my hoverboard?
The percentage of people that have correctly predicted the future is so low that I think it actually defies statistics for how BAD it tends to be.
It's like looking at nostrodomos and oh my god look he predicted it! while ignoring the other 20,000 predictions he made that never happened.
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where's my hoverboard?
Aliexpress. Only, they have wheels, and sometimes catch fire. Bit of a swizz if you ask me.
Why should I indulge in his fantasies? (Score:2)
Do I want to wear and have to plug in all of the extra AI gizmos that he suggests? No. And do I wish to share all of my personal thoughts and words and actions with an AI that is going to send those back to the mothership/database somewhere. Like hell, no. And can I trust that AI? Who is vetting it's algorithm? I mean it wouldn't be steering me wrong; influencing my purchasing decisions, my partner preferences, my viewing habits, my voting choices.
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OK, now imagine the iPhone with glasses for a screen, some earbuds, and a "thumbmouse" so you could use it by twiddling your fingers. Connected with bluetooth. It could be done fairly inconspicuously right now, but it would be pretty expensive, and the "screen" would have to be low resolution enough to let you see where you are going, probably more of a cartoonish overlay.
That thing WILL be developed. The question is whether anyone will want it.
Futurists (Score:2)
Futurist Predicts AI-Powered 'Digital Superpowers' by 2030
Even a short review of what 'futurists' have predicted over the last century or should be enough for anbody to conclude that these people are completely full of shit and when they get it right it's usually by nothing but dumb luck. There is little real difference between this guy and Nostradamus.
"Futurists" remain idiots (Score:3)
What else is new? These people have no skills except to trigger hallucination in not very smart people. This is just another example.
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I agree. Then we would at least get the occasional hilarious hallucination. Futurists are so dumb they are completely boring.
less "can't resist", more FOMO (Score:2)
"Unanimous AI's founder ..." another marketer makes the case for spending more. But hey, if gimmicks for counting one's steps is selling then I guess anything can be sold with the right spin attached.
Douglas Adams said it ... (Score:2)
In the words of Marvin, the paranoid android"
"Sounds dreadful"
Re: Douglas Adams said it ... (Score:2)
Exactly what crossed my mind. The sentiment and the quote.
It's like Facebork you can't refuse to use. Some new fresh Hell. #donotwant
Bill said it best (Score:2)
"Eternity was in our lips and eyes. O brave new world, That has such people in it!"
-- William Shakespeare
What is was predicted? (Score:2)
Superpowers like data collection and targets ads? (Score:2)
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Nah...it will also tell you when your toaster is through toasting.
Actually, there are lots of special circumstances where I can see that kind of thing being useful. But the environment would need to be designed to facilitate the use (as in the toaster emitting a "done" signal over some short range protocol, perhaps bluetooth). I suppose it could call a phone line that was handled by an AI, but that's not usually a viable approach.
Oh boy (Score:2)
Sharing the news? (Score:2)
"Thanks to Slashdot reader ZipNada for sharing the news."
What news was shared here? All I see is an ignorant repeating of a cheap grift.
Cold Cash War (Score:2)
By Robert L. Aspirin
A great story about corporations becoming the true rulers of the world.
Unlikely, but bad if he's right... (Score:2)
[B]y 2030, a majority of us will live our lives with context-aware AI agents bringing digital superpowers into our daily experiences.
That seems pretty unlikely. If it does happen, I suspect that those "digital superpowers" will merely replace ones that used to be commonplace boilerplate skills. You know, skills such as making change, writing complete sentences and paragraphs, and having an attention span long enough to read a book.
Technology has already largely killed concentration and focus. Having it make up for those losses while it continues, via AI, to further increase our helplessness without it, strikes me as a very bad idea.
Predict Deze Nuts (Score:1)
Money (Score:2)
The article notes Meta has already added context-aware AI to its Ray-Ban glasses and suggests that within five years Meta might try "selling us superpowers we can't resist".
So as usual only those who can afford it will have this advantage (if it even proves to be such).