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by janalsncm 792 days ago
I’m gonna doubt they’re operating AI on encrypted cloud data. In other words, there’s no technical reason they couldn’t be listening to your conversations.

If these guys have accomplished homomorphic encryption they shouldn’t be building a wearable, they should be licensing their IP to Apple.
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mattsan 792 days ago
They're definitely marketing this as if they were Apple. If this takes off I'm betting on Apple buying them out.
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crooked-v 792 days ago
Every rumor points at Apple announcing OS integration of local LLM assistant stuff at WWDC in June, with specialized chips to go with it. I suspect they're going to Sherlock a lot of small "AI" companies simultaneously.
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ooterness 792 days ago
It's encrypted, but they have the keys. Wouldn't want anyone else to access the data without paying the toll, after all.
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janalsncm 792 days ago
There’s three options:

1. The data is encrypted and they can’t operate on it in the cloud. 2. The data is not encrypted. 3. The data is encrypted and they have built a state of the art homomorphic encryption algorithm for their AI to operate on.

I’m going to guess it’s #1, not #3.

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