Superpowers, Not Superintelligence

JohnMakin

You can tell the people pioneering this are utterly miserable and soulless. "Let's build something to automate all the parts of your life that are actually your life." What person that was even mildly satisfied with living their life would want this? What's next, agents that play video games and watch tv for me? What's the point?

chrisjj

> Zuckerberg promises an agent that understands you, your goals, everything you care about. I.e. the most dangerous program you can imagine.

AndrewKemendo

I wrote this in 2018: AI and privacy are incompatible https://medium.com/@andrewkemendo/artificial-intelligence-an... Highlight towards the end “I will make a prediction of my own: more deeply intertwined AI based services will increase the decision making capabilities for users over the next several decades to such an extent, that it will be considered irresponsible not to use them. Ok, fine then we’ll do it offline! I can hear you now: “Well fine, I value my privacy but I also agree that these services are beneficial. So we will just make systems that never touch Amazon, Google or Facebook or whatever mega corporation services. We’ll own our own data and I’ll just keep all my private data locally in my own home and have my open source Smart Speaker totally off the grid. Or maybe just send out relevant data where necessary. I’ll build my own DDPG based Deep Learning systems and teach it everything it needs to know!” But will you?”

fxtentacle

<s> I'm glad they are completely not creepy for a company that plans to make money by selling your private data. </s> "Capture the daily moments that define you. Voice the hidden details and tell the story only you can tell." "We may sell, transfer or otherwise share [..] including personal information"

jakejohnson

Does the CEO and co-founder of Bond actually expect folks who read this announcement, as it shifts from Facebook's ambient data collection toward promoting Bond, to give Bond access to their valuable "identity capital" and sign up because they promise to give us more control over how we share our memories with AI and "provide a safe medium" via closed source? Absolutely not. Keep your superpowers offline with a local model.

adamtaylor_13

Reducing your whole life down to a "memory currency" is supposed to be a "superpower"? How? It gave excellent examples of other tools that gave us superpowers: GPS, Phone, Internet. But didn't provide a single shred of evidence that this app is also a superpower. This is an app . Not a protocol, not a platform, an app . It's just... a way to remember stuff? You're handing all this data to a company, relying on "trust me bro, we'll be responsible" as a promise to be ethical? This is beyond perplexing.

tamimio

No thanks. And starting by asskissing zuck says you are trying to get acquired by fb, or will be in the future, which is even worse.

jonplackett

I was with you all the way up until how you pivot to ad advertorial and become the exact thing you are complaining about. If you can’t beat them, join them right?

jaredcwhite

AI;DR I keep feeling "surprised" that people who seemingly would know better post stuff that obviously sounds like an LLM. But then I remember, you and I aren't the audience. The audience is investors. And investors seem to love LLM-voice, because…in large part…the LLMs sound as vapid and unhelpful as the VCs.