That's the point.

If everyone is wearing the glasses, wherever you go, you'll be filmed all the time, with most people not bothering to ask.

I mean, you are being filmed everywhere you go anyway by flock cameras, police/government cctv, even cctv on business and peoples house/ring doorbells etc. Concent to being filmed in a public place is not really asked anywhere, so I dont see it as a big difference personally.

Try to have the 24/7 cameras at chest level or lower, you'll find people starting to get uncomfortable. You can easily reach those angle with the glasses, and different with smartphone which also can, the glasses can be hard to distinguish.

Ring doorbell cameras are chest high and millions of homes have them. I would bet every time you walk down the street you are captured by loads of them, but because you dont know you dont care.

Ring doorbell cameras don't move and aren't attached to people's faces. Come on.

I think the ironic thing in the video, is the employees of the company making the product, abject to the use of the product when it is directed towards them. So why should everyone else be comfortable with it.

But meta employs many thousands of people. Is it fair to say they all work on the meta glasses and/or all think they are a good idea? Just because you work for a company doesnt mean you share its morals.

Poor Tracy in accounts probably doesnt give 2 hoots about meta glasses, shes just an accountant and maybe she doesnt even know they exist. But now shes getting harassed by idiots with cameras as she goes into the office because of something another department on the other side of the country did.

If you were doing it to Zuck himself or following round the head of the smart glasses department then it might be different, but harassing general employees of meta is no better than any other company. These are normal people no matter where they work.

In the post, he had only been at the company for 2 weeks. Maybe they have a really bad on-boarding process and he just wasn't seeing the process clearly.

Surely it cant' be this bad, or a company would collapse?

I think we'd all be surprised how bad most software is within businesses, and they somehow still run.

If it’s B2B, the finance side (seller/customer) of the relationship can be totally different from the product side (developer/user). Evolution of the contract is often measured in quarters.

Does this actually modify the weights?

It submits prompts that get refused, then detects and modifies the weights responsible?

Like brain surgery?

Yes, it submits lots of varied prompts that get refused, and then lots of varied prompts that don't get refused, then iteratively edits weights so those two groups end up in roughly the same latent space.

I wonder, if we could accurately resolve discrete neural signals in the human brain, if a similar process would work.

We have no theory as to how the brain works at a granular enough level. Remember that matrix multiplication can simulate almost any group structure.

Not all sloppy writing is AI. Quite a few humans also write ambiguously.

A lot of programmers consider themselves to be applied mathematicians.

Maybe more in years past when Comp Sci was a subset of Math Departments.

In my observation, most programmers and engineers lose their math chops over time. The math they need is mostly baked into their tools, such as CAD. If a problem requires more advanced math, it's given to a "math person" in the department. Often, the "math person" is also not allowed to touch the production code.

Because the AI needs new stuff to train on?

It gives me hope, that out there in the internet, there are still people just doing purely geeky deep dives. I wish you good luck in life.

A network connected device that can be hacked is a small step away from being the first foothold into its server. The fact that on-device security is this atrocious suggests that their server is not any better quality, which means hacking it would probably not take much effort.

I don't disagree.

But there is some old rule about, even the best security can fail if the device is physically accessible.

There are levels to defending against physical attacks, and Flock half-assed theirs by leaving the encryption key right on the file system, according to the reporting. Those more serious about security — like Apple — store keys in an "enclave" chip so it can't be easily extracted by an attacker doing the bare minimum

Apple did that… eventually. Early iPhones weren’t very secure. Apple only got serious after they dominated the market and reducing the theft value of iPhones became a priority.

Even the cheapest commodity encryption chips have had this capability for well over a decade now, Unlike Apple, Flock are not a hardware pioneer, not by a long shot.

The Android documentation has an example of how to use hardware keys, and a Chinese OEM (IIRC) was found using the example key provided by Android sample code - and yet that was more effort than Flock applied, since their ARM SoC support it.

A Silcon Valley startup with poor server-side security? Couldn't be!

i think this is actually good, because there are differences between the images they found, and security settings that the company claimed.

They had not admitted before to tracking people, but their software is clearly submitting them. They had not admitted before to looking at bumper stickers, but turns out they do.

I wonder if they could find all cars with Bernie Sanders bumper stickers within X blocks of a polling place.. I can imagine that (or similar queries) might be very useful in the wrong hands.

Took a peak at From Glory To Goo

Doesn't it look like a copy of Factorio? Is the game play different?

To me they're different, one I'd put mostly in the "automation" category (Factorio), the other base-building/defense. You have units you can control for example, in From Glory To Goo, and it's quite literally about getting rid of the "Goo", while in Factorio the "aliens" are more a side-activity in that you have to deal with them.

I like how they killed him instantly, its an old SC meme where the space marine pops out and is insta killed.

But really, aren't there enough first person shooters? But a huge lack of RTS's. Lets have a new Star Craft Real Time Strategy game.

Maybe if the First Person Shooter works out, they will spend the money on an RTS.