As with the Apple ads, I remain unconvinced these are benefits. Translation, yes, but your last two examples feel oddly isolating and dehumanizing. Like, estimating the number of people in a line is a trivial task, and something fun to discuss and argue about with your friends! If your friend had the glasses to, do you think it would have come up in conversation at all or would they just ask theirs?

I dunno, I'm picturing a future with everyone standing around absorbed in their own devices (not too different from today) but where we struggle to ask each other normal questions due to offloading our collective intelligence and social skills to the cloud. Destined to become Daphne totally reliant on glasses to interact with the world around us.

I'm probably overly dramatic here. You're out having fun at a park with friends! I'm just trying to imagine how future generations will interact with this tech, particularly the youth who won't know a world without.

It enhanced my conversation as when both people do not know something you are looking at and or discussing you can now find the answer quickly via glasses on your face.

We all use Google to find knowledge/answers but most are not pulling out our phones during conversations cause that's rude. Yet it's not rude to get the answer from your glasses you are wearing on your face and still present in the conversation your having as well people will think wow that's cool (per my experience).

Yeah I don't think you're still present in the conversation while taking a photo and listening to or reading an explanation of what you're looking at. You might think it's less interruptive than pulling out a phone, but your attention is on the smart glasses. People think they can multi task too. I can see when someone just zones out during a conversation and they don't even realize it. I'm gonna be annoyed when I see you looking at the shit coming out of your glasses.

It interrupts some (depending on scenario) but isnt as rude and is way quicker then all the steps need to take to get out my phone and do a search.

Also at times friends will ask me to ask my glasses things during our hikes and what not.

I appreciate you might find value in these things, but each example I read just gets less and less compelling. Translation does seem mildly useful, the other things feels like information I can live with or without.

E.g. these aren't burning problems in my life. Even the translation, I'm happy to just be in the dark, or take a phone pic and translate if I really really need to.

Having everpresent AI tech on my face doesn't seem worth it if these are the kinds of problems I get solved.

Well if you use sunglasses and pull out your phone to take pics, videos and see the time ... using the glasses to do all those things (even without having your phone on you) makes a lot more sense (quicker and easier).

Quicker & easier isn't the end all be all–having distracting tech on my face is likely a net drag on my happiness, focus; given how distracting smartphones already are. It would have to be _so_ good that I'm willing to live with that extreme downside.

My problem with all three of these features (besides the terrible privacy impact that other commenters have already addressed) is: As the end user, how do you know and verify the results are actually correct? How do you know the road sign was translated correctly? How do you know that the name of the church was actually correct? How do you know that the estimate given was even close?

Your examples were all pretty low-stakes, so I guess "it doesn't matter if it's correct" is fine for them. But what if you actually ended up relying on an answer to be correct and it wasn't? Would you independently verify the correctness, or just blindly operate on bad info?

How do you know any information you get from a source that you can’t personally and independently verify is correct? How do we know a tourist guide book is correct? How do we know our language dictionary is correct? You don’t. People will need to learn to what degree they can actually trust a given source of information and decide how much the risk is worth taking. We do this all the time today, and every time new technology comes along there’s always an adjustment period as we sort out the boundaries of trust (see also people driving off roads and into ponds when GPS was new). The danger to me is not that it can be wrong, it’s that people don’t yet understand it can be wrong. That’s not helped by AI boosters trying to use AI in inappropriate ways and situations, but it’s also not helped by AI doomers that treat every failing of the new technology as proof it’s worthless and will never be useful. Both extremes are speed running a “boy who cried wolf” scenario for losing public trust in what they have to say.

We all seem to trust Google and the first search result link is the truth (i guess) yet now they are showing their AI results... are we trusting those the same as the first search result links we have always?

Personally i think those who are concerned about whether it's correct or not are not ones to jump all into new technology yet will when enough of their friends, family and co-workers have done so. There they find that level of trust they seek.

If we have trusted Google all the years then the AI that becomes the most trusted becomes the next Google. Open AI needs to create their own smart devices (phone and or glasses) and with that they could become the next Google. The information GPT provides me seems correct and matches Google's AI. Siri even with 18.1 is still terrible ... just asked it what day is November 9th it forwarded me to a Google search (lame).

Are those glasses with camera always on sticking it into other people's faces, just like before Google glass had it?

That's an idiotic toy to use among other people, and I am keeping things polite here. Unless you ask each of them if its OK they will be recorded and evaluated by Meta company (and who knows who else).

Your convenience stops right where rights of me and my family starts. Bring it next to any small kids and expect some well deserved non-nice feedback coming your way.

The privacy issue in time Im sure Meta and or Apple will figure out (i have some ideas to fix that) .. they need to cause that's half of peoples reaction to them while the other half dont care.

I could care less about other people I do not know I am using the glasses to capture my life (not theirs) and for

- Sunglasses

- To listen to music and take phone calls

- To take pics and videos of what Im experiencing in my life not others

- To enhance my conversations as pulling out my phone is rude to get the answer in a social conversation .. using my glasses no one has said anything rather thinking it's cool

> The privacy issue in time Im sure Meta and or Apple will figure out (i have some ideas to fix that) .. they need to cause that's half of peoples reaction to them while the other half dont care.

They don't need to figure it out, they just have to wait.

People holding their camera phones up everywhere and (maybe! You can't know for sure!) recording stuff used to be off-putting in about the same way, but we got over it within a few years. Ditto various other socially-shitty things, like talking on a phone in public or using nearly-invisible earbuds that make it hard for people to tell where your attention is or even notice that it might be somewhere else.

I kinda wish we hadn't gotten over those things, but we did, and having watched it happen a few times I'm sure we will again for this.