As technology continues to advance, we are rapidly approaching a future where Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and AI glasses will become commonplace. While these advancements have the potential to revolutionize the way we live and work, they also pose a significant threat to our privacy. With the widespread use of AI glasses, everything we see and hear can be recorded and analyzed by powerful AI algorithms. Even seemingly insignificant details can be used to extrapolate a wealth of information about us, from our daily routines to our deepest desires. As AGI becomes more intelligent, Meta and other companies that control these technologies will have unprecedented access to our personal information. They will be able to track our every move, monitor our conversations, and even predict our behavior with alarming accuracy.
Well, as somebody working on this I can tell you it’s up to you what you decide to use. Of course you can rely on Meta or Google but there are alternatives like Monocle or Lynx XR with software (not AGI… not even going to address that, assuming it’s a joke) that is also open-source and self-hostable e.g GraphHopper for directions, Mistral or LLaMA for LLMs and countless others.
So… can you use self hosted AI with open-source hardware today? Yes.
Will most people decide to do so? Sadly not.
Are we trapped? Absolutely not, in fact I suggest you help on either or both side, open-hardware, open-source software and open models.
Please don’t fuel fears.