This Tech Offers a Tentative Fix for the 'Pervert Glasses' Problem - CNET
A man walks into a party and spends the evening networking with new people without getting his phone out even once. As he leaves at the end of the night, he tells his smart glasses to add the people he just met that evening on LinkedIn with a note about how they could collaborate.
This is the vision that Shawn Shen, co-founder of Memories.ai, put forward at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii last week. Shen presented this idea as a net positive – a problem solved. In this scenario, the glasses were allowing the man to be fully present and handing off the labor of remembering everyone’s names and faces to an invisible third party.
But this is also an example of how one person’s utopian ideal can be another’s dystopian nightmare. As Shen spoke on stage, pitching his vision for smart glasses and AI agents, there was...
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