Apple's Second-Biggest Acquisition Ever Is a Startup That Interprets Silent Speech (ft.com) 16
Apple has acquired Q.AI, a secretive Israeli startup whose technology can analyze facial skin micro-movements to interpret "silent speech," in a deal valued at close to $2 billion that marks the iPhone maker's second-largest acquisition ever, according to backer GV (formerly Google Ventures).
The four-year-old company was founded in Tel Aviv in 2022 by Aviad Maizels, Yonatan Wexler and Avi Barliya. Patents filed by Q.AI show its technology being deployed in headphones or smart glasses to enable non-verbal communication with an AI assistant. The acquisition comes as Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses already let wearers talk to its AI, and Google and Snap are preparing to launch competing devices later this year.
The four-year-old company was founded in Tel Aviv in 2022 by Aviad Maizels, Yonatan Wexler and Avi Barliya. Patents filed by Q.AI show its technology being deployed in headphones or smart glasses to enable non-verbal communication with an AI assistant. The acquisition comes as Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses already let wearers talk to its AI, and Google and Snap are preparing to launch competing devices later this year.
Do you read me? (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, so this is how HAL 9000 can read lips. Very prescient.
And I'm in talks to sell my startup, too. (Score:4, Funny)
Using AI, we can analyze imperceptible deviations in skull shape that will predict a person's behavior and mental acuity. We've already signed on a dozen Fortune 500 companies and countless law enforcement departments servicing high-crime areas.
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Using AI, we can analyze imperceptible deviations in skull shape that will predict a person's behavior and mental acuity. We've already signed on a dozen Fortune 500 companies and countless law enforcement departments servicing high-crime areas.
If law enforcement is already servicing "high crime areas", then AI studying the effects of environment would be far more relevant regarding behavior. What exactly is AI studying skull shape going to validate in those areas? That people really have no reason to bitch about racial profiling, because science?
Put a choir boy in prison for a decade. Dude won't come out a choir boy for obvious reason. No hat size required.
jane (Score:3)
I can't wait to meet Jane and let her handle my finances for a few thousand years
Can they tell what I'm saying now? (Score:1)
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Re: Can they tell what I'm saying now? (Score:4, Funny)
Re: bahahah fucking retards (Score:3)
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I can't imagine apple would drop that kind of money without it being real though.
well thats bad logic.
Re: bahahah fucking retards (Score:3)
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It does sound like bullshit doesn't it. The article also sounds iffy. I can't imagine apple would drop that kind of money without it being real though. Wonder if it works as a lie detector too...
Perhaps we should consider what's under the hood here. I can imagine Apple dropping that kind of money on technology that's iffy if the patents secured behind it are not.
Lock, stock, and barrel, implies you're buying far more than the superficial.
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Dont worry, its heavily paywalled.
Re: bahahah fucking retards (Score:2)
No it's hardware and software which interprets subvocalizations. This is used for combat troops to communicate silently while doing operations. Just the thing for ICE to use while trafficking children at 2AM.
What about Siri? (Score:3)
Why can’t they just make Siri work properly?