[orange_tee]

> In explaining possible use cases of facial recognition, Bosworth said that Facebook’s smart glasses may help someone recognize someone at a dinner party

What a fucking joke. There is clearly no practical upside to this for the wearer, or the rest of society.

[mettamage]

> What a fucking joke. There is clearly no practical upside to this for the wearer, or the rest of society.

Yea, not for the average person. The most creative thing I could come up with was to play a game with your eyes closed and then let your glasses tell you who's who. So, not really worthwhile.

But then I thought, what if you're an old person that has issues with recognizing people. I think some of them could benefit from it. It points to a theme which is: AI could help certain senior citizens to augment their cognition, and recognizing someone via glasses is a small example of that.

[orange_tee]

Obviously they want to make everyone wear their monitoring cameras though. They could have created and marketed a device only for people who need it, and nobody would have complained if they had done that.

[Toutouxc]

I can see people suffering from memory loss or weak eyesight benefiting from such technology, but of course that's not what Facebook has in mind.

[Bancakes]

Just another argument for how most problems have been solved and everyday technology has been feature-complete for years.

[orange_tee]

Since when do you first get people to buy and use your device and only later tell them how the device could become useful in some form or another?

It's a joke that they are trying to push this for self serving reasons, but cannot even come up with one good reason for people to wear them.