Indian-origin techie's device that 'takes a picture every minute' raises privacy concerns
Indian-origin inventor Advait Paliwal launched Iris, an AI-powered wearable that takes photos every minute to create a continuous "memory" of life, storing them on the device or in the cloud. Privacy concerns have been raised online.
An Indian-origin inventor has invented a wearable device that he claims will provide users with "infinite memory" of their lives. Advait Paliwal announced the launch of Iris, an AI wearable, via social media yesterday. Iris, he continued, is a device that "takes pictures of every minute" and stores them on the device or uploads them to the cloud. The device is designed to catch "the little moments we usually let slip away, revealing patterns we never noticed."
What does the device do?
I built Iris, a wearable that gives you infinite memory of your life.
¡ª Advait Paliwal (@advaitpaliwal) September 24, 2024
It takes a picture every minute, captions and organizes them into a timeline, and uses AI to help you remember forgotten details.
Iris also has a focus mode. It notices when you get distracted and proactively¡ pic.twitter.com/fQxzpBRmIA
The device shoots photos, captions them, and arranges them chronologically. It employs artificial intelligence to assist wearers in recalling previously forgotten data.
¡°Iris also has a focus mode. It notices when you get distracted and proactively tells you to get back on track,¡± Paliwal added.
In his blog post, the India-born, San Francisco-based entrepreneur stated that the evil eye symbol inspired the device's design. He stated that he spent the summer working on the device at Augmentation Lab in Cambridge, a two-month hacker accelerator residency program for AI and hardware talent.
At the end of the program, he introduced Iris to approximately 250 people at the MIT Media Lab. "Many loved the idea and even wanted to get one for themselves," he told me.
How did people on the internet react?
Paliwal was confronted with comparable privacy difficulties on X. Here's what people wrote.
Infinite memory until you hit your storage caps
¡ª Joe Muller (@code_ontherocks) September 24, 2024
It's an interesting concept, but I wouldn't want to interact with someone who had this on, taking a photo every minute.
¡ª Dr. Julie Gurner (@drgurner) September 24, 2024
Recently I sat down to organise my data from my laptop, smartphone & 4TB ext HD. Got so overwhelmed by it esp. by the many pointless photos, there was an overload of info & i just quit the process.
¡ª Sam ALT Man (@k0ol1) September 25, 2024
Point is, I don't think we need yet another device taking 1000s of pics every day!
Looks great, what are the privacy guarantees
¡ª Rishabh Gupta | Hiring (@rishotics) September 24, 2024
There are a bunch of failed startups in this category, Google Clip, Memento, but what they did not had was AI. So this could work.
¡ª Linus @ Meta Connect (@LinusEkenstam) September 24, 2024
Great work.
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