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> alking to ChatGPT with Advanced Voice mode or listening a podcast during a walk or bike ride or so is a really nice experience with these.

I've recently thought that a killer bit of hardware would be a way to interact with an LLM by voice without other people thinking you're talking to them and saying "what?". I was imagining the return of those classic bluetooth headseats, or some combo of earbud and throat mic, but the Ray Bans seem like they might be an option, too.

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This + a button on watch to feed last x seconds of environmental data to a local micro LLM could be interesting.

  "The user pressed button as the word `cromulent` was spoken by unidentified individual in front of ...",  
  "The user seemed to have been engaged in a snowboarding session when the button was pressed,  ...",  
  "The user was screaming `computer LOCKDOWN LOC-aaagh` as they..."

Meta's AI assistant can take in a picture today along with your prompt. Pretty basic and unfortunately tied only to their AI assistant but along the lines of what you're talking about.

If they opened up the glasses and all of their cameras to other AI models, it'd be pretty powerful. Alas, walled gardens. I would bet OpenAI is working on some similar hardware to compete.

Google was right in the end, just ten years too soon with Google Glass.

I don't know, I think that would still require people to change their assumptions about glasses. Currently, I don't assume someone is talking to their sunnies.

Irrelevant really, because plenty of people use plug style ear buds that you can't obviously see in their ears. If someone is talking to thin air then I always presume they're on a call with someone.

Best way to do this is a with a wireless one hand chorded keyboard. A fancier solution would be detecting subvocalizations. That would feel almost like mind-reading

Why not typing with your tongue? https://kpronline.com/blog/typing-with-a-tongue-computer-int...

Very clever but the WPM is very low so only good for paralyzed people.

I think if you don't want to type and more control the OS and you add chording to it, would beat any other input system other than scanning brainwaves for me.

it would make an interesting mouse controller if it was accurate enough. I wonder if the tongue would get tired.

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